{"id":425636,"date":"2026-01-23T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/425636\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:07:08","slug":"trail-camera-captures-image-of-mountain-lion-in-central-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/425636\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail camera captures image of mountain lion in Central Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CLARKS, Neb. (KSNB) &#8211; The Merrick County Sheriff\u2019s Office posted an image of mountain lion that it says was reported to the department on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"> A resident at the Summerwood Resort lake community contacted the sheriff\u2019s office at 8:40 p.m. with a sighting and image from a trail camera, which was taken earlier that Thursday at 4:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Merrick County Sheriff\u2019s Office has filed a report with Nebraska Game and Parks, which has a conservation officer investigating the sighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s department recommends all homeowners at the lake communities of Summerwood Resort to keep their pets inside after dark. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Follow Local4 for more updates on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksnblocal4.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our KSNB Local4 daily digest and breaking news alerts delivered straight to your email inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KSNB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLARKS, Neb. (KSNB) &#8211; The Merrick County Sheriff\u2019s Office posted an image of mountain lion that it says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[202591,202589,2354,202592,79,202590,201],"class_list":["post-425636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-five-lakes","tag-merrick-county-sheriffs-office","tag-mountain-lion","tag-nebraska-game-and-parks","tag-science","tag-summerwood-resort","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}