Fun with remote cameras

For work we put out four remote cameras to attempt to monitor marten populations, since martens are considered a sensitive species for our forest. We used a lure developed for trappers that smells like toothpaste (apparently martens like toothpaste??) The lure doesn't seem to have been working, but we have gotten some nifty shots of deer:
And this elk with messed-up antlers (which we researched and found out it's most likely due to a brain worm infestation):

But coolest of all, it seems that someone was interested in our bait after all:



Our next move, and I'm not joking, as disgusting as it sounds, is to pick up road-killed squirrels before we go out in the field next and use those as bait. Yeah, I know it sounds really gross, but squirrels are the primary food source for martens, and if the big fat ones down in Boulder don't lure them in, I don't know what will. Plus, it's recycling!