What a waste of good road kill. Places I have lived regarded grilled venison & grilled turkey as,staples. When i was,a vol firefighter & we got roadkill call we put out code so known road kill fans would come & get it while sherrif looked,away.
Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Dec 7, 2018 3:52 PM, "Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes" < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > MARYLANDHighway agency turns its roadkill compost into turfPublished: > Friday, December 7, 2018 > > Deer are acting up for mating season — and while that means more collisions > with motorists and more roadkill, for the Maryland State Highway > Administration, it also means more compost. > > Spokesman Charlie Gischlar said the administration has been turning dead > deer into compost since 2004, when the program started in Carroll County, > Md. Now, there's a second facility in Frederick County that helps in the > effort. > > The recipe is simple: deer carcasses, manure and wood chips. Let that > decompose long enough, and you've got compost. > > Gary Felton, an associate professor and agricultural extension specialist > with the University of Maryland for almost 25 years, said the deer > concoction checks all the boxes of a good compost — but it suffers from two > major problems. > > "Big bones don't decompose very fast, so you end up with big bones if you > don't sift [the compost]," Felton said. "That's a common thing to do, but > for the State Highway Administration, that means more money." > > And the second problem he listed is exactly what you'd imagine: "The > concept that people have of 'yuck, that's a dead body.'" > > The deer compost naturally heats up to temperatures between 130 and 160 > degrees Fahrenheit when the microbes in the mix are consuming carbon, > Felton said, so the final product is pathogen-free. > > Even so, Gischlar said, the mix is only used to enrich native wildflowers > near roads. > > Felton, who has advised the administration on their compost, said this year > the mix was also extended to growing turf in medians and beside roads — and > that even though it was safe to use on all plants, those two projects used > up the State Highway Administration's supply of deer compost. > > There's no one place to find the number of deer struck by motorists in > Maryland per year, but administration data show that between January and > October of this year, its workers have responded to 9,800 reports of deer > carcasses on state roads. > > Gischlar said the deer that are not composted are either buried or given to > outside rendering companies. *— Savannah Williams, Capital News > Service/Associated Press* > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
