Disposal of roadkills

[snowhunter]

In B.C., the highway department openly dispose of the roadkills in many of their gravel pitts along the highways. Usually, the roadkills are just thrown into some corner of these gravel pitts for avian and four legged scavengers to eat. Often their so many roadkills in some of these highway department roadkill dumps, that they start to stink. Some of these roadkill dumps are close to homes.

Good places to hunt bear and other scavengers ?

 

[todbartell]

baiting is illegal

 

[snowhunter]

This is not baiting, these are legal disposal areas for roadkills, and if you happens to be bear hunting in the same area as those roadkill dumps, it just a legal bonus

 

[dumbdawg]

baiting is illegal

not here
here we go again sorry i had to do it

 

[eltorro]

Not only is the baiting legal, but also one can keep the creature he kills.

 

[gitrdun]

Might be a good place to "kill" a bear or a scavenger. But, it really re-defines "hunting" - No?

 

[todbartell]

try explaining to a C.O. that you were hunting coyotes off the pile of dead moose when mr boo boo walked out

 

[snowhunter]

My question is more like: "is that a legal, or safe way to dispose of roadkills ?", because it can, and eventually will, create more problems than it solves ?

To the best of my knowledge, it is not illegal to hunt near or around these highway roadkill dumps, as well as very few hunters and others, know about this questionable practice of openly dumping roadkills along the highway gravel pitts.

Many these highway gravel pitts that also serves as roadkill dumps, often have no locked gate.

If I was hunting bear, I would certainly check out the vicinity of these "bear feed lots"

 

[gitrdun]

Is it legal?...well if a government agency does it, I guess that would make it legal. Besides, have you go a better alternative to as "where" the carcass should be disposed of? Question is, is it legal for you to take advantage of it and hunt the dumping site, or better yet....how do YOU feel about it? I'm still trying to digest the direction in which you're going to with this question?

 

[BCWILL]

#6 bear may not be hunted by placing bait or by using a
dead animal or part of it as bait

FWIW: These "socalled" dump sites are temporary places where animals that are collected off roadways are stored....they must be removed from the highways to eliminate the potential danger to motorists etc. They are eventually moved to a proper disposal sites (landfills etc.) BC is a Big place with Lots of Roadways etc... The Number of Roadkills in this Province is mindboggling. I'm sure the animals are dealt with in a cost effective manner as soon as possible.
Happy Hunting !

 

[Turbo]

Back in 2001, Manitoba Conservation built a composte bin within one of it's parks that serves as a means of disposing of road kills and confiscated critters that were taken illegally.

Once an animal is placed in the "bin" as we call it, it is covered in a mix of wood chips and other composting materials. I can't remember exactly how long the process takes but it is very quick, and odour-less.

I worked on the project and it is still in use to this day. It has even drawn attention from various resource departments in the U.S. and Canada.

It does not attract any kind of scavengers at all, in fact it seems to be a favorite place for the deer to hide.

 

[snowhunter]

Often along roads and highways, the various government agencies have placed "bear safe" garbage bins, so it is actually somewhat ironic or even funny, that these "bear feeding or baiting lots" also exist in British Columbia

What I have observed with some of these roadkill disposal area on gravel pitts, is that the scavengers does such a good job in devouring the road kill deer carcasses that there is no need to clean up after these, free meals.

Yes, baiting bear is illegal in B.C. However, when the B.C. Government is doing the bear baiting for you, why not take advantage of it, and hunt the areas around these B.C. Government "bear feeding lots"

The British Columbia Government is creating welfare bears

 

[Gatehouse]

As it's been explained here many times, if you know that there is a carcass in the area, sitting over top of it waiting for a bear- is illegal in BC. Regardless of WHO dumps the carcass.

There are many more exciting and interesting ways to hunt bears in BC. If your idea of fun is to sit over some highway roadkill, fill your boots. Just keep in mind it's illegal.

 

[gitrdun]

Snowhunter, then the appropriate verb for this activity is "culling" or
"disposing of" - certainly not HUNTING. I just can't see the fun, or sport one might derive from this.

 

[snowhunter]

That must be an "grey area" in the definitons of the B.C. hunting regulations.

I still thinks that the onus have to be on the highway department for not dumping roadkills in such a manner, that free "bear feeding lots" are created.

Clearly, the B.C. Highway department install and maintain "bear proof" garbage bins along highways, so why is the same highway department also practicing these, potentially dangerous "bear feeding lots", that can make territorial bears aggresssive to anyone, including humans, when protecting "their roadkill food catch", in which dangerous bears eventually have to be destroyed by the CO ?

It would make more sense if bear hunters took advantage of these questionable, B.C. Highway Department "bear feeding lots", and thus got rid of some of these problem bears, which, unfortunately have become dependent of human handouts in form of roadkills ?