A new law took effect in Oregon on Tuesday allowing meat from animals killed by vehicles to be harvested and eaten.

The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that lawmakers in the state first approved the measure, Senate Bill 372, allowing deer and elk struck by vehicles to be legally salvaged for food in 2017.

Under the legislation, state residents are required to submit an application for a permit no more than 24 hours after salvaging the elk or deer.
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According to The Statesman Journal, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will be providing free "roadkill salvage permits" to drivers who wish to harvest the road kill.

Regulations for the permits require drivers to submit animal heads and antlers to the department within five business days.

It is still illegal to intentionally kill an animal to salvage it in the state, however.

Oregon joins nearly 20 other states in allowing residents to harvest meat from roadkill.



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GWB

That menu is hilarious!

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Originally posted by Aspen Hill Adventures:
That menu is hilarious!

+1000 Whoever came up with it has to have a hell of a sense of humor!

Eaten road kill deer, bear and moose.

When fur was worth good money made a lot picking up road kill fur bearers that were in good shape.

It seems like there were a few states where a person with an unfilled tag on their license could legally tag a roadkill and take it into possesion.

I have cheated a few buzzards in the past.

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Originally posted by Aspen Hill Adventures:
That menu is hilarious!

+1001

COLO has been doing that for as long as
I can remember. I've picked up maybe a
dozen over the years. Mighty hard to
load an elk onto the rig alone though.

Cousin was a trooper at Pagosa Spgs, he
kept a pack of hounds fed from road kill
year around. Chased coyotes in the summer
with them.

George

There was a small chain of restaurants in Maine back in the 90’s with the same name. Never went to one. All I remember is someone told me about the delicious “Bye bye Bambi Burger” he had at the one in Rangeley. Quite possibly the proprietors were from Far East, not Down East.

Considering there are more than 1.2 MILLION deer collisions in the United States each year, that's a lot of organic, free-range protein in play, most of it going to rot in a landfill or game pit.
This law, long time coming, was forced to a head following an incident in John Day, Oregon, an old gold-mining boom town in northeastern Oregon. A guy hit a deer right in town, loaded it into the bed of his truck and was immediately cited by the police. He took it to court and the judge said letting that deer go to waste is the larger crime here.

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A guy hit a deer right in town, loaded it into the bed of his truck and was immediately cited by the police. He took it to court and the judge said letting that deer go to waste is the larger crime here.

It has been said.

The best way to get a bad law changed is to start enforcing it.

Now that is funny, I can't stop laughing.

Paul

One late night during deer season I hit
5 mulies with the semi. Going around 50
as I'd nearly hit a couple a few miles
back.

I grabbed the pistol to finish a couple
up with broken legs. Just after a couple
shots a voice in the dark of the ditch yelled:
"what are you shooting at". "hit a bunch of deer'with the rig, you hunters and have doe tags" "yeah" come get some good fresh meat then, three does and a small buck just had a
broken leg each"."be right there".


50 miles down the road was a game check station. I told the GW on duty about it. "Good
deal, finally someone's getting the meat, thanks for reporting it"

Truck was 3 yrs old, had 9 deer to it's credit
already. The next year it collected 20-30% of a BIG herd of sheep the Navajo's had run out on the highway at dusk to collect insurance
money. Filled the ditches both sides for 1/4 mile. That was back in '74.

George

The German Shepard Pie cracked me up. I was eating dinner with a buddy and his wife at a local pub that has excellent Shepard’s Pie. A Freudian slip led her to ask for German Shepard Pie. That was years ago and we still laugh about it now.

Shortly after Michigan traded Ruffed Grouse to Canada for some Moose, one was hit and killed on the highway. The Warden was dispatched to the scene and the moose was gone! After some questioning, someone witnessed a logging truck stop and load the moose. The moose was located in the logger's shop, being turned into mooseburger. The warden cited all involved and the DA threw it out. The swampdick was sniveling, but the DA knew he could not get a jury to convict and chose not to waste tax payers money.

I expect the moose was frozen for study and discarded years later, unstudied and freezer burned.

I wonder if they are opening a can of worms..There are road kills and there are road kills, many of which I wouldn't even consider eating, thank you..I would hope they addressed that in the law, but politics can get involved..I think I prefer to shoot and eat my own deer and elk..

we got the same law here Ray.
it expressly states your on your own as to the quality of the meat for consumption.
but you can do a self permit on the puter or phone it in and they will mail you a permit.
[must be done within 24 hrs.]
if it's a mandatory must see the carcass animal you gotta haul it to one of their offices.
if it's on the endangered list, it's off limits.
so a black bear or wolf is fine if you take it in but a grizzly ain't.

if I don't see the animal get hit or hit it myself I won't even consider it.

Had a friend that had an Italian son-in-law that was visiting, was out riding around with the Friend and his son-in-law one afternoon and he ask about all the horses in the pastures and what we did with them, I told him we ride them what do y'all do with them, his answer was "We eat them".

Friend (Bob) ask me to keep Polo (the son-in-law) busy for the next few days while he finished out the week at work so the young man wouldn't get bored. The next day I went by and picked up another friend and told him we were suppose to pick up Bob's son-in-law and ride him around and just for "Shits and Giggles" we would pick up road kill for Bob and get Polo to harvest the free road kill.

We rode around and picked up a few possums, a dead squirrel of two, a Coon, and a few Armadillo. With our road kill in the bed of the truck we headed back to Bob's house to unload the "catch of the day" and put them into Bob's outdoor fridge on the porch. Polo was so proud to show his catch to his Father-in-law when he got home from work.

Got a call about an hour after Old Bob got home, man he was pissed, but even he had to admit it was all funny as hell.

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
I wonder if they are opening a can of worms..There are road kills and there are road kills, many of which I wouldn't even consider eating, thank you..I would hope they addressed that in the law, but politics can get involved..I think I prefer to shoot and eat my own deer and elk..

x2, the thought of eating bruised meat, full of plastic and metal particles, from an intact carcass, left in the sun , doesn't appeal to me, Another sign of the impoverishment of America ?

Grizz