At the cabin near Ely, MN last week, I saw loads of critters.

A bull moose in a roadside swamp, three coyotes eating from a deer carcass, a timber wolf crossing the road about thirty yards ahead of us and a marten running across a narrow fire road.

Keep in mind the cabin is on the edge of the wilderness area known as the BWCA in northern Minnesota.

We also carried a fairly large snapping turtle by the tail to the otherside of a local logging route.

To say he was po'ed would be a major understatement.

There was little appreciation shown for our gesture.

Edit: Yes, the moose was a rotting carcass. Buzzards and two bald eagles were fighting over the tick infested beast. As for the marten, it looked like it had a pine grouse hen.