In WI if you hit a deer you have to buy a tag if you want to keep it. I hit a deer years ago with my brand new Chevy Suburban. The deer didn’t survive, and while I was surveying the damage to my truck two kids in a K car pull over, grab the carcass, toss it in their trunk and take off. I’m up thinking that, “That was nice of them, saves the highway guys the hassle of cleaning up.”
When I call the sheriff’s office to report the damage they were more worried about who took the deer. The sheriff wanted a description of the two guys and their car rather than filling out an accident report for me. -D > On Dec 7, 2018, at 8:26 PM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > 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 motor _______________________________________ 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
