December 2016 marked an important milestone in our wildlife photo study: the removal of our wildlife corridor landscape cameras. The first cameras were placed in June 2013, and the array grew to include 44 cameras by May 2014. Maintaining the cameras and collecting over 200,000 pictures became a group effort, which entailed three to four people spending two full days each in the field every six weeks. The camerawork took the team to beautiful locations on public and private lands, many of which they may never have the opportunity to visit again. Some might assume that our days in the field working on the corridor cameras were like this:

​Those people wouldn’t be completely wrong, but there were some days or portions of days that felt more like this: