{"id":448164,"date":"2026-02-04T08:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448164\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:19:11","slug":"lewiston-mountain-lion-euthanized-in-backyard-near-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448164\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewiston mountain lion euthanized in backyard near elementary school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">The male animal was dispatched at about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday by George Fisher, conservation supervisor for the agency\u2019s Clearwater Region at Lewiston, using a rifle with a silencer. Bruns said Fisher estimated the animal weighed about 80 pounds.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">The mountain lion was first seen on the Lewis-Clark State College campus Sunday night where a security camera recorded the animal entering the covered ticket window area at the LCSC Activity Center adjacent to Harris Field. <\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">\u201cGeorge said it was still a younger cat but it was bigger than we thought,\u201d said Bruns.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Barker may be contacted at ebarker@lmtribune.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The male animal was dispatched at about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday by George Fisher, conservation supervisor for the agency\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-448164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448164","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=448164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}