I have a place just about twenty miles north of where this happened and not only are there mountain lions but there is more danger from the bear population.
Yeah, and the bears are starting to be a problem in some of the campgrounds further south, like Albee Creek and Burlington. Some people have a bizarre fascination with 'our friends' the cuddly, fuzzy bears. I think they're a darn nuisance, and would just as soon shoot one if he started to bother me. Bears never used to be a problem in those campgrounds. Last summer when I was there, they were starting an effort to replace all the wooden storage cabinets with bear proof ones, to try to discourage bears. They were asking for donations from campground visitors to pay for them.
Lucky you. That's some beautiful country up there. A Ranger at Prarie Creek once told me the bears in the area are really more like "big dogs", and if I see one to just make myself appear bigger and yell at him and he'll probably go away. Luckily, I've never seen one.
This is getting crazy with the protected species acts here in MN, timberwolf populations are the largest in the country now. So we got black bears, timberwolves, and mountain lions venturing into urban areas looking for food.