LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A hunter has killed a mountain lion in northeast Nebraska’s Dakota County.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says in a news release that the 89-pound female was killed on Monday morning. It’s the second mountain lion killed in what’s called the Prairie Unit since the season opened Jan. 1.

The commission has four units designated for hunting mountain lions. They are Pine Ridge in the northern Nebraska Panhandle, Upper Platte in the southern Panhandle, Keya Paha (kee-YAW’ puh-HAW’) in north-central Nebraska, and Prairie, which covers the rest of the state. The other units are closed for hunting now.

The hunting has drawn criticism from hunting opponents and people who don’t believe there are enough mountain lions in the state to justify the seasons.