BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s mountain lion hunting season in a zone in the far southwestern part of the state has closed after the taking of a seventh cat.
 
     North Dakota Game and Fish Department officials say the lion was taken Thursday, filling the late-season quota. The mountain lion season in Zone 2, which is the rest of the state outside Zone 1, has no quota and is open through March 31st.
 
     Zone 1 includes land south of ND Highway 1804 from the Montana border to the point where the road lies directly across Lake Sakakawea (suh-kah-kuh-WEE’-uh) from Highway 8.
 
     It then crosses Lake Sakakawea then south along Highway 8 to Highway 200, then west on Highway 200 to U.S. Highway 85, then south on Highway 85 to the South Dakota border.