When I showed up at Indian Cave State Park to check my camera trap on February 25, 2018, I was thrilled when I looked at the camera’s LCD and saw that I had captured the photo I’d hoped for: the mountain lion that had been roaming the forest walking across a fallen tree at dusk a week earlier. When I got back to the office and opened the images in Photoshop, I found another surprise. The lion first triggered the …

These images of wildlife, a roaming dog, a morel mushroom hunter and the photograher’s son, Mace, were among the thousands captured by camera traps placed in the woodlands at Indian Cave State Park on the edge of the Missouri River Valley in Nemaha County between January 2017 and April 2019. More photographs can be found in the January 2020 issue of NEBRASKAland Magazine. Photos by Eric Fowler. Copyright NEBRASKAland Magazine, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.