Nebraska officials have confirmed the sighting of a mountain lion in northeast Nebraska.

Tom Welstead of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is northeast Nebraska's manager of the commission's wildlife management section. He said Friday that he'd gotten notice of the confirmation a day earlier from commission experts in Lincoln.

The mountain lion was seen just north of the Knox County town of Verdel by Ron Olson of Verdigre. He was in the Lazy River Acres area, looking for mushrooms.

Olson says he saw the cougar when he came between it and the carcass of a deer it had killed. The lion merely walked away.

Olson says that later in the day he, his brother-in-law and a friend set up a game surveillance camera that got a picture.