Thousands of animals are accidentally hit by vehicles in Wyoming every single year leading hundreds of pounds of edible meat going to waste.
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Taking roadkill to eat has been illegal in the state, but on Monday Governor Mark Gordon signed a bill that involves the legal harvest of roadkill. That law would go into effect in July. So, if you accidentally hit and kill an animal, you will be able to take it to eat. This can already be done in 30 other states including Colorado, Idaho, and Montana.
“It’s really hard to guess and estimate how much interest there will be.
Montana has been averaging about 1,000 salvage permits a year,” Game and Fish Warden Rick King said to Jackson Hole Daily.
There are some restrictions, including the fact that you will have to take the whole carcass, not just a section of it. Also, some animals are banned from being eaten. This includes mountain goats, bighorn sheep, bears, some birds, and wolves.
“Deer, elk, moose, pronghorn — those will be the species that folks primarily have an interest in,” King said.
You are also not allowed to donate the roadkill to charities, according to the law.
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