Mountain Lion Killed At Elementary School

Colorado Department of Wildlife officials killed a mountain lion at Park Elementary School on Monday morning after a woman in the neighborhood called police. "We don't want mountain lions in the town," DOW spokesman Joe Lewandowski said. "So, we had our officer shoot and kill the mountain lion on site." Lewandowski said the mountain lion was a 2-year-old male and weighed about 75 pounds. In July of last year, two mountain lions were killed inside Durango city limits, with one killed at a home on east 11th Street and the other near the Ninth Street bridge. Both were adolescents - about 1 to 2 years of age and weighed about 50 pounds each. Lewandoski said full-grown mountain lions can weigh 150 pounds or more. He said sightings of mountain lions are a weekly occurrence...DurangoHeraldNews