LOGAN, Utah – Students at the Utah State University in Logan were alerted to the presence of a mountain lion in neighborhoods near campus on Tuesday, February 13. According to Fox13 Salt Lake City, the animal was first spotted by police officers around 6:45am, with the animal’s movement towards the campus leading to an alert on the school’s Aggie system.
The cougar, weighing about 115 pounds and likely being around two-years-old, eventually made its way away from the school and into a local neighborhood, leading to a response from the Utah Division of Natural Resources (DNR). The animal was eventually located north of 1640 East and 1400 North, in the yard of Dane Anderson.
“I was sitting in a work meeting and my wife comes freaking out saying, ‘Hey, there are a bunch of cops and DNR agents in our frontyard. And obviously, that gets you a little heightened, regardless of what’s going on.” – homeowner Dane Anderson

The mountain lion was tranquilized by officers and moved into the back of a truck. DNR biologists will set out to determine why the animal entered the area, primarily with health assessments. It seems likely, however, that the animal was just in search of deer.
“This one didn’t show any aggression towards anything, we didn’t hear of any reports of pets being killed. It was likely just coming down because there is a lot of deer in the cemetery area.” – DNR biologist Sam Robertson
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