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  • August 26, 2016 at 11:28 pm #51667
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    ….“I work my life around roadkill,” said Ms. Speakman, 45, whose Facebook page declares her alter ego, Laurie the Moose Lady. “My heart and soul is into this because people are getting fed.”

    So it irks her, she said, when moose go missing. Under state law, animals struck and killed on Alaska’s highways are state property and may be handled only by authorized groups like the federation. But illegal carcass harvesting is occurring with increasing frequency in Alaska, said the group’s executive director, Don Dyer, who just last week stumbled upon evidence that pointed to moose theft.

    “This last Sunday about 3 o’clock in the morning, we got a call, and we got out there and someone had cut an entire shoulder out of a moose,” Mr. Dyer said in a telephone interview. “Some people out there say, ‘Well, it’s just roadkill,’ and if they’re hungry, they’re entitled to it, but the fact of the matter is that when somebody steals a whole moose, it impacts a lot of people.”… see link

    August 27, 2016 at 11:14 am #51701
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    Don’t mess with the kings stag. At least not without paying the proper fees and doing all the paper work. My state deems every thing they can control as a revenue source and little else.

    Same laws here but not many mooses laying around – a lot of deer and skunks and raccoons and buzzards. They put marker flags on them to mark them and then leave them to rot for a week or two. Buzzards got to eat too.

    If a decent buck is laying around someone might cut their horns off – a lot of hunters collect piles of them do display in their houses and yards. In the cooler months they do pick some up to harvest that delectable road kill meat to hand out to people who have signed up to receive this benefit. Many people really don’t really like venison so it’s not a huge thing. A moose can have 500 to 600 lbs of meat – these deer are around here are about 75 to 100 lbs if there’s no damage. So it’s a pretty big difference. We don’t have a moose lady doing the good work of collecting road kill to give to the poor that I’m aware of.

    August 27, 2016 at 12:30 pm #51709
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    sdram wrote:

    We don’t have a moose lady doing the good work of collecting road kill to give to the poor that I’m aware of.

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    What about Mermaids? You got any free-range mermaids up there where you live?

    What about Neanderthals?

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    August 28, 2016 at 6:07 am #51759
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    They let us take deer we hit here most of the time anyway. You hit a moose though and you’re lucky if you’re not seriously injured yourself.

    August 28, 2016 at 2:35 pm #51788
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    We have both Mermaids and Neanderthals – and I believe that there’s no limit on them but the season is limited.

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