*Please check with each state for the latest updates for Roadkill if you plan to visit. Therefore, there is also a lot of interest in getting game meat using any method, including road mortality,” says Fleagle, who also served as chairman of the Federal Subsistence Board, a unique Alaskan regulator with the power to regulate both game and fish on federal lands. In November 2018, Fleagle recalled spotting a male who had just been hit in the median strip of Highway 82, the first time he had used the Colorado Parks & Wildlife (CPW) recovery permit and local law enforcement to harvest Roadkill. She said that road accidents could sometimes be put to good use. A salvage tag would be required to record the death of big game or turkey on the road, but a hunting licence would not be required with a big game salvage tag. With the passage of Senate Bill 372 in the 2017 legislature, drivers will also be able to rescue deer and moose killed in traffic for meat. You are allowed to pick up unprotected animals, skunks, raccoons, etc. For protected animals, such as deer and moose, you must contact a wildlife biologist or conservation officer and obtain a rescue permit. California is one of the few states (or so I was told) that doesn`t allow Roadkill registration. The rationale is that all legal “extraction methods” are set out in the regulations. It is therefore presumed that any means of capture, persecution or killing that is not expressly authorized by law is not permitted. Obtaining a roadkill for a trophy or other marketable feats is subject to different regulations. It is legal to pick up most animals that have been victims of vehicle-animal collisions.

For big game, you must have a transport permit (purchased from a forest ranger or other enforcement officer) before taking it. Small furry animals will need a fur tag if you plan to assemble or stuff them. Collecting road-killed animals in Wyoming became legal in January — however, there are regulations about what animals you can pick up and which roads you can pick up. However, we do not track people picking up bona fide victims on the roads. “There was concern that this rule would allow people to illegally take wild animals and say, you know, I met this animal on the street when they may have poached it,” she said. “If it looks like someone is abusing the system, we can contact them and check them.” With its Roadkill buck Fleagle cut and packaged roasts, stew and steak, makes burgers with purchased beef tallow (raw, hard fat, great for frying) and Italian sausages with bought pork tallow, then shake something “for a special treat”. To put it simply, a vehicle is not considered a legal method of removing an animal in California — 29 other states have traffic accident collection laws. Wyoming is one of them,” DiRienzo explained. To be in legal possession of a dead animal, you must either have the appropriate hunting licenses/tokens or obtain an injunction (permit) from your local conservation officer. You can get these arrangements by contacting a local agent, who usually asks a few questions to make sure the animal has been taken away legally. We only ask that you contact your local agent “as soon as possible” after seeing or picking up the animal.

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department and the Department of Transportation will continue to collect data to learn more about wildlife movements and collisions, while providing drivers with an easy way to record and use traffic accidents whenever possible. A person can collect deer and antelopes with notification and permission. We do not allow the public to directly acquire street strikes: lions, turkeys, moose, bighorn sheep, mountain goats or other big game (except deer and antelope). This is because these other species are rarer, we will try to save and usually try to find a use or other animals like a local food bank or a family in known need. There is also some discretion on the part of the officer or supervisor. No other specific tolerance for other species such as predators, waterfowl or small game. We would probably allow someone to collect other species of small game, predator or varmint, assuming the season was open and the person had the necessary permits to own the animal. Some people, like Durango`s Matt Kenna, actually like Roadkill — for dinner. A single animal on the side of the road can provide meat for a year.

Before you worry, it`s not the poor deer that decompose and stink of the road. So the black and white of this is that only the person driving the vehicle that hit the animal is allowed to take a deer or bear that was hit. This person must call law enforcement to obtain a credit card before they can be taken into possession. There are no other sections related to vehicle collisions; This means that there are no other animals that can be taken possession by Road Kill. Currently, our biologists are working to modify this code or add another one so that others (who might encounter it) can add street slaughter animals and other animals to the list. Other animals are currently not allowed to be owned, as a vehicle collision is not a legal way to harvest them.