Published Nov 13, 2026 11:00 AM EST In June, New Mexico State University graduate student William Grooms was using motion-sensing cameras to investigate wildlife in Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico. And when he looked through his first images, he spotted something flabbergasting. His cameras had captured a series of photographs of a Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis)—a wild cat that hasn’t been documented in the state for around 25 years.