A mountain lion was shot and killed in northwest Iowa Tuesday. Vince Evelsizer with the Department of Natural Resources, says a DNR law enforcement officer took the action after the large cat was spotted on a property near Galva in Ida County.
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The animal is suspected of killing three calves late last week. A livestock producer reported the losses about 30 miles south of where the mountain lion was shot.
Evelsizer says this marks just the fourth time a mountain lion has been killed in Iowa.
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The previous most recent shooting of a mountain lion in Iowa involved a four year old male cat in Sioux County in 2013. The mountain lion shot in Ida County was female.
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