DULUTH — A mountain lion spotted wandering through Duluth on Wednesday — prompting two schools to temporarily lock their doors and keep anyone from exiting — likely originated in Nebraska.

That’s according to John Erb, a furbearer and wolf research biologist at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, who said the agency has been receiving reports of this cougar in Minnesota since early September, when it was spotted near Fergus Falls.

“Then we got a flurry of pictures that kind of help us loosely track it,” Erb said.

Trail and security cameras captured it near Park Rapids, Wadena, Brainerd, Nisswa, Pine River, Leech Lake, Grand Rapids, Tower and finally the North Shore.

Bre Bujold saw it on Friday outside her home near McQuade Road northeast of Duluth. Bujold recorded an approxi

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