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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 2017
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A wounded deer lies in the road after being hit by a car on the northbound lane of Interstate 295 near Freeport, Maine.
In Oregon, under a roadkill bill passed overwhelmingly by the Legislature and signed by the governor, motorists who
crash into the animals can now harvest the meat for human consumption.
Oregon joins with states where
roadkill can be harvested for food
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — Some folks in
Oregon might not want to ask,
when served an elk burger or a
venison steak, where the meat
came from. Under a roadkill
bill passed overwhelmingly by
the Legislature and signed by
the governor, motorists who
crash into the animals can now
harvest the meat to eat.
And it’s not as unusual as
people might think. About 20
other states also allow peo-
ple to take meat from animals
killed by vehicles. Aficionados
say roadkill can be high-qual-
ity, grass-fed grub.
“Eating roadkill is health-
ier for the consumer than meat
laden with antibiotics, hor-
mones and growth stimulants,
as most meat is today,” noted
People for the Ethical Treat-
ment of Animals, or PETA.
Washington state began
allowing the salvaging of
deer and elk carcasses a year
ago. Pennsylvania might top
the country in road kills, with
Oregon wildlife officials tell-
ing lawmakers that the eastern
state had over 126,000 vehi-
cle-wildlife accidents in 2015.
“We are at or near the top of
the list. We have a lot of roads
and a lot of deer,” said Travis
Lau, spokesman for the Penn-
sylvania Game Commission,
though he added the total num-
ber was uncertain.
Pennsylvanians can take
deer or turkeys that are killed
on the road if they report the
incidents to the commission
within 24 hours, Lau said in a
telephone interview.
Gov. Kate Brown signed
Oregon’s bill last week after
the Senate and House passed it
without a single “nay” vote.
But a few Oregonians
voiced opposition.
Vivian Kirkpatrick-Pilger,
a Republican Party official in
mountainous, forested Jose-
phine County, told legislators
that people have been salvag-
ing roadkill meat in Oregon
for years — since vehicles and
animals have been colliding —
and they never needed a law or
permit to do it.
Actually, the Oregon
Department of Fish and Wild-
life said that before last week,
the only people allowed to
keep roadkill were licensed
furtakers, and no one — not
even licensed hunters — could
keep game animals found as
roadkill.
The rules were aimed at dis-
couraging people from hitting a
game animal with their vehicle
to take the meat or antlers. “It’s
not a legal method of hunting,”
the department’s website says.
Les Helgeson, of the com-
munity of Beaver, near the
northwest coast, told legisla-
tors that roadkill “would not be
palatable, much less pass any
sense of health standards for
human consumption.”
But those who have sam-
pled it say otherwise.
Todd Toven of Castle Rock,
Colorado, posted a video on
YouTube showing himself
carving up a deer that had been
hit by a vehicle on a highway
and finished off by a deputy
sheriff’s bullet. Toven made it
into venison sausage.
“A lot of who people don’t
hunt hear the word ‘roadkill’
and they get turned off,” Toven
said. “We’re talking perfectly
clean, cold meat.”
Oregon’s new law calls
for the state Fish and Wild-
life Commission to adopt rules
for the issuance of permits for
the purpose of salvaging meat
for human consumption from
deer or elk that have been acci-
dentally killed in a vehicle
collision.
The first permits are to
be issued no later than Jan.
1, 2019. The antlers must be
handed over to the state’s wild-
life agency.
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Hunter
subsequently
deposed Port Executive
Director Jim Knight and
Judy Fattori, the Port’s exec-
utive assistant, the two peo-
ple he said were involved
in the case’s discovery pro-
cess. Those additional depo-
sitions, Hunter argued in a
motion filed this week, con-
firmed that the Port had actu-
ally been aware of the records
for the past 15 months before
Param’s request, has no
explanation for the delay in
producing them and com-
pletely delegated their pro-
duction to Fattori without
any further guidance from her
superiors.
Hunter said Fattori had
compiled a list of meetings
related to the Riverwalk Inn
in August 2015, in prepa-
ration for an eviction case
against Smithart and his com-
pany, Hospitality Masters.
“In short, by August 2015,
the Port had already specif-
ically identified the docu-
ments it ultimately failed to
provide Param for more than
a year,” Hunter wrote in his
motion.
Hunter argued the Port
has had ample opportunity
to explain the delays, which
have fundamentally altered
his case. Param has asked
the court to force the Port
to transfer the company the
lease on the Riverwalk Inn or
pay monetary damages.
Hunter said that if the court
is concerned about providing
the Port a jury trial, it should
strike the Port’s defense to
award Param a limited judg-
ment on its first claim of spe-
cific performance. Specific
performance is a legal rem-
edy used when no other rem-
edy, including money, will
adequately compensate an
aggrieved party. If Param was
given limited judgment on
the claim, it would be argued
before the court as opposed to
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Study links legalized pot with
increase in car crash claims
DENVER — A recent insurance study links increased car
crash claims to legalized recreational marijuana.
The Highway Loss Data Institute, a leading insurance
research group, said in study results released today that colli-
sion claims in Colorado, Washington, and Oregon went up 2.7
percent in the years since legal recreational marijuana sales
began when compared with surrounding states. Legal recre-
ational pot sales in Colorado began in January 2014, followed
six months later in Washington, and in October 2015 in Oregon.
“We believe that the data is saying that crash risk has
increased in these states and those crash risks are associated
with the legalization of marijuana,” said Matt Moore, senior
vice president with the institute, which analyzes insurance data
to observe emerging auto safety trends.
Mason Tvert, a marijuana legalization advocate and com-
munications director with the Marijuana Policy Project, ques-
tioned the study’s comparison of claims in rural states such as
Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana with Colorado, Oregon and
Washington that have dense population centers and how that
affected the study’s findings.
“The study raises more questions than it provides answers
and it’s an area that would surely receive more study, and
deservedly so,” Tvert said.
Researchers accounted for factors such as the number of
vehicles on the road in the study and control states, age and
gender of drivers, weather and even whether the driver making
a claim was employed. Neighboring states with similar fluctua-
tions in claims were used for comparison.
Auto club predicts record
travel over July 4th weekend
DALLAS — Americans are expected to put down the TV
remote and hit the road in record numbers for the July 4th
weekend.
Auto club AAA said today that it expects 44.2 million people
will travel at least 50 miles from home, a 2.9 percent increase
over last year’s record for the holiday.
The vast majority of those revelers will go by car. But air-
line travel over the holiday is also expected to rise for the eighth
straight year.
Travel industry officials expect domestic demand to remain
strong, even while they worry that proposed travel bans and the
prohibition on laptops in the cabins of some U.S.-bound planes
could hurt travel to the U.S. from abroad.
With July 4 falling on a Tuesday, some workers will get a
four-day weekend, making a quick road trip even more inviting.
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before a trial jury.
“At minimum, in the event
the court declines both of the
alternatives identified above,
the court should award Param
all the attorneys’ fees it has
incurred in this case and, in
addition, should give a cura-
tive instruction explaining the
Port’s discovery violation and
instructing the jury to draw an
adverse inference from that
conduct,” Hunter wrote.
A trial is scheduled for
October.
The Port is also scheduled
to go to trial in August against
Smithart. The agency is suing
Smithart for unpaid rent and
revenue-sharing.
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans released their long-
awaited bill today to dismantle much of Barack Obama’s health
care law, proposing to cut Medicaid for low-income Americans
and erase tax boosts that Obama imposed on high-earners and
medical companies to finance his expansion of coverage.
The bill would provide tax credits to help people buy insur-
ance. It would also let states get waivers to ignore some cover-
age standards that “Obamacare” requires of insurers.
The measure represents the Senate GOP’s effort to achieve
a top tier priority for President Donald Trump and virtually all
Republican members of Congress. Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., hopes to push it through his cham-
ber next week.
Yet it faces an uncertain fate in the Senate.
At least a half-dozen GOP senators — conservatives as
well as moderates — have complained about the proposal, the
secrecy with which McConnell drafted it and the speed with
which he’d like to whisk it to passage. Facing unanimous Dem-
ocratic opposition, the bill would fail if just three of the Senate’s
52 GOP senators oppose it.
The measure would provide $50 billion over the next four
years that states could use in an effort to shore up insurance
markets around the country.
For the next two years, it would also provide money that
insurers use to help lower out-of-pocket costs for millions of
lower income people. Trump has been threatening to discon-
tinue those payments, and some insurance companies have
cited uncertainty over those funds as reasons why they are
abandoning some markets and boosting premiums.
The House approved its version of the bill last month.
Though he lauded its passage in a Rose Garden ceremony,
Trump last week privately called the House measure “mean”
and called on senators to make their version more “generous.”
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