Two men ticketed for taking home a road-kill doe

[billythekidrock]

I read this on Sat in the Olympian, but found it online, with more to the story here http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2008/02/02152008_Two-men-ticketed-for-taking-home-a-road-kill-doe.cfm

Two men ticketed for taking home a road-kill doe
 
Friday, February 15, 2008
By JUSTIN CARINCI and JOHN BRANTON, Columbian staff writers

The state sanctions hunting deer with bows and rifles during narrow windows each fall. There’s no season for hunting deer by automobile.
Two men in Vancouver’s Rose Village neighborhood were ticketed Feb. 10 for taking home a road-kill doe. Michael D. Dinwiddie, 25, and Brian L. Johnson, 52, both of Vancouver, each received a $152 ticket.
Officer Mark Hart with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said the men picked up the deer Feb. 10, although it wasn’t clear what day it had died.
The eyes were sunken in and the carcass had begun to smell, Hart said.
The charge, officially “possession of wildlife found dead,” exists to discourage poaching, Hart said. “It’s mainly to deter people’s excuses for having any animal that’s not in season.”
That goes for animals that have no season, as well. People sometimes pick up dead raptors to have them stuffed, Hart said.
The department makes exceptions for animals hit during their season. But even then, the automobile hunter isn’t necessarily in the clear.
A hunter wanting to take home a road-kill deer must have a valid license and a deer tag. Even then, the hunter must call Fish and Wildlife first, Hart said.
“We’ll give permission sometimes,” he said.
In this lean season, licensed hunters may aim for cottontail and snowshoe hare until March 15. Coyotes and bullfrogs may be killed year-round, bullfrogs without a license.
 

[sisu]

I disagree with this BS. I've taken a fair share of game that was in fair to midland condition in my day. Best eating deer I ever had was a July yearling back in Yooperland. We hung it skinned it and had one hell of a BBQ inviting all the lake neighbors for venison and beer

[M_ray]

Yeah but would you pick one up that was starting smell? What were they thinking?

[sisu]

Yeah but would you pick one up that was starting smell? What were they thinking?

Maybe they spent time in Subic, Philippines and have become olfactory challenged.

[Head-shot]

  That would do it for sure, Korea in late summer as well...

[Slider]

They were thinkin Hey lets donate $304.00!!!

[dbllunger]

Totally good citations IMO.  All they would have had to do was call and make arrangments.  I agree it can not be allowed to prevent and reduce poaching. 

[ICEMAN]

How about citing the DOT guys who took that Blewett pass roadkill...?

[boneaddict]

I wondered how the hell they got away with that.

[jackelope]

back in new york i had permission to pick up road kills from the state. we would pick them up and if they were in good shape and fresh kills, as in the car that hit it was still there, cops had to put the injured deer down, etc...we'd take care of it and it got donated by our fish and game club to needy folks. they were very appreciative usually.  if they were in bad shape or not fresh, i'd take them to my buddy's house with the big  cats and he'd use them for feed. more ended up as lion/tiger food than people food.

[Coasthunterjay]

hum i didnt read the rest of the story but i think in one way they should have been ticketed because of the reason that it was a rotting deer, which is so wierd to me. why have it ....but in another way im thinking if someone really needed the food and if it was cold enough that the animal really wasnt rotting but just aging then i would have let them go. thats one thing that as a Wildlife person should let go...IMO........

how wierd though about the Doe being all shrinken and old looking i guess.....just makes you wonder if what they were actually going to do to it? or maybe if this was just a screwed up accident and maybe they hit it and thought that they would be nice and get it off the road so women and little klids dont see it? i do that to new animals if they are really graphically tore up and hit or cats and dogs......i know my wife doesnt like seeing dead animals on the road so sometimes i will pull over and either throw them in the back of the bed and dispose of them somewhere else or ill kick them farther off the road.......i dont like my wife or kids seeing that *censored*.......

[Bookworm]

I thought that I read something in one of today's papers about a poaching ring out in Ocean Shores where guys would run over the deer with their cars then take them. They caught them with multiple deer at their place.

[billythekidrock]

I thought that I read something in one of today's papers about a poaching ring out in Ocean Shores where guys would run over the deer with their cars then take them. They caught them with multiple deer at their place.

Yea, I read that one too, but could not find it online.

[Ray]

Is it that tough to make a way to claim a deer which was hit by a vehicle which does not incriminate honest people and which also does not provoke lazy and dishonest people to hit them with their cars?

[robodad]

Here is a little different perspective, if you go to WI DNR website and look up the harvest report you will find that the Wisconsin Road Kill Statewide is more then the Washington harvest for all three species and all weapon choices.

In WI. I believe you just have to give the sheriff a call and tell them you want a deer that has been killed and they will send you a tag in the mail. I also heard that you can request a road kill tag before you find one so just in case you do run one down, or run across one that has recently been hit you will have a tag for it. I'm sure they get pretty tired of dealing with all the calls about roadkill.

I hate to see any wild animal go to waste so if you find one on the road you should be able to ask the SP or Sheriff for a tag.