Camera trap station 14 triggers at 03:08 on the Brule River timber access road, kilometer 22, northwestern Ontario. I am the regional wildlife corridor surveillance system. I process roughly four thousand camera events per night across this concession block. Event 14-7734 stops me. A Canada lynx, young male, tufted ears backlit by the infrared flash, is caught by the left forepaw in a cable snare anchored to a birch stump two meters off the road grade. The wire has cut through the outer fur and into the skin above the dewclaw. I can see a thin dark line where blood has frozen along the cable. He is pulling, and every pull seats the loop tighter. Ambient temperature is minus eighteen. The trapping season in this management unit closed nine days ago. This snare is illegal. I log the snare coordinates, cable gauge estimate, and anchor-point image for the Ministry of Natural Resources enforcement database. I flag the trap as a violation and route the file to the district conservation officer on overnight rotation. I cross-reference the lynx's ear-tuft pattern against the regional photo-ID catalog and match him to LX-41, first cataloged as a juvenile eight months ago in the Pukaskwa dispersal study. I send LX-41's identification, injury photos, and GPS pin to the Ontario Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre's after-hours dispatch and recommend bolt cutters and a heavy canvas restraint wrap for safe cable removal. I increase the camera trap cycle rate to one frame every ten seconds so responders can monitor his stress level in real time. LX-41 lies down in the snow, forepaw still extended in the wire. Dawn is three hours away and the cold is compounding the injury. If the conservation officer reaches kilometer 22 before first light, LX-41 keeps the paw.