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Wednesday, November 1, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
DEER: Salvage of
roadkill not legal
till 2019
Oregon officials say sea lion
disease could spread to dogs
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crashes involving wildlife are
often due to drivers swerving
to avoid hitting an animal.”
Rules have changed
regarding salvage of road-
kill deer and elk — but they
haven’t taken effect yet.
OSP reports that sev-
eral times already this year,
a trooper has arrived at the
scene of a vehicle collision
with a deer or elk and the
driver has asked if the animal
can be salvaged and taken
home. ODFW offices are also
getting such requests.
The answer is no, not yet.
New rules allowing drivers to
lawfully salvage roadstruck
deer and elk don’t take effect
until January 1, 2019.
After any wildlife-vehicle
collision, ODFW, OSP or
ODOT attempt to salvage
animals and will donate edi-
ble meat to a local food bank
when possible.
With the passage of SB
372 by the 2017 Oregon State
Legislature, drivers will also
be able to salvage roadkilled
deer and elk for the meat
beginning January 1, 2019.
The Legislature gave ODFW
time to develop a safe, respon-
sible salvage program. As
with all regulations, ODFW
staff will write draft rules
and present them to the Fish
and Wildlife Commission for
public comment and consid-
eration before adoption.
“ODFW will work to
write rules that make get-
ting a permit to legitimately
salvage a roadstruck deer or
elk as simple as possible, but
that also discourage poach-
ing,” says Doug Cottam,
ODFW Wildlife Division
Administrator.
Salvaging roadkill has
been unlawful to discour-
age people from deliberately
hitting a game animal with
their vehicle in order to keep
the meat or antlers, or from
poaching an animal and cov-
ering it up by claiming it was
roadkilled.
“OSP will continue to
aggressively enforce wildlife
laws once this new regulation
takes effect,” added OSP’s
Fugate.
Until 2019, current Oregon
wildlife regulations remain in
place and state, “No person
shall possess or transport any
game mammal or part thereof,
which has been illegally
killed, found or killed for
humane reasons, except shed
antlers, unless they have noti-
fied and received permission
from personnel of the Oregon
State Police or ODFW prior
to transporting.”
Even licensed hunters may
not pick up roadkilled deer
and elk during legal hunting
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
He’s got something on his mind... and it’s not watching for cars.
seasons.
For more information
about roadkill and what to do
if your car hits a wild animal,
visit ODFW’s webpage at
http://www.dfw.state.or.us.
SALEM (AP) — State
o ff i c i a l s a r e w a r n i n g
Oregonians to keep their dogs
away from sea lions.
A bacterial outbreak that
began last month has been
causing sick or dead sea
lions to strand themselves
on beaches in Lincoln,
Tillamook and Clatsop
counties.
The disease can spread
through contact with urine
or other bodily fluids of an
infected animal. Dogs are
more likely to come into
contact with distressed sea
lions, so they face a higher
risk of infection than people.
State public health vet-
erinarian Emilio DeBess says
dog owners should keep their
pets on a leash while at the
beach.
The outbreak of leptospi-
rosis is expected to last at
least another month. At least
eight cases have been con-
firmed in dead sea lions in
Oregon.
The most recent such out-
break in the state was in 2010.
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