Mountain lions, there is a very strong population of them in the Black Hills and the surrounding prarie. The game and fish refuses to give the true facts on the matter and hasn' t set a hunting season. The misinformation given by the Game and Fish is amusing, great stuff for the Discovery Channel. Directly west of here, approximately 10 miles is the Wyoming state line and Crook county where the yearly quota for hunters is 8 cats and the local game warden and govt. trapper say should be 10. I wonder why they feel they can kill 8 and we don' t have enough to take 1? Guess the cats are afraid to cross the state line. I would surmise that the population is in good shape as the quota in Crook county was 2 three years ago.