Roadkill legal in BC?
- Thread starter Calum
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- AB foothills
I was reading a while back about the Government wanting to change the laws allowing ownership rights to roadkill.
So what became of this?
I checked the BCWF site for info, but couldn't find any.
Goin hunting with the truck and no gun are we
Hahaha!
I could see myself doing this also, besides I have 8 hungry dogs to feed.
Up near our place on hwy18 we are getting more and more hit deer, and on my drive down to Victoria last weekend as I passed through gold stream park off the Malahat Hwy I saw 3 roadkill deer, and I know it is a matter of time before one gets hit by me or in front of me by someone else.
Seems a pitty to waste it.
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- AB foothills
This is one part of the upcoming new rules I'm not understanding, in SOME cases road kill is already allowed, yet in the hunting regs it clearly states that it's not legal, my question to them is: If it's not legal to keep road kill for whatever reason why then does the government produce this document when you go to the Wildlife offices.
Gives a whole other meaning to "Road hunting"
Git um Pa
Gives a whole other meaning to 'throw some meat on the grill'
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- AB foothills
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- Lakes District BC
habitat conservation trust fund I beleive, and you can still get a $10 permit to pick up a moose or deer in most places I also beleive
The biologist I spoke to at length a few months back said, this is a distinct possibility. The final decision is up to the person (biologist) your speaking to. I knew a fellow in Castlegar that got a permit for a big buck that he hit with his truck, Like Bonez said, the cost was $10
If the item your asking about is valued at more than $200 the government will confiscate it and sell it at auction in Prince George to the highest bidder. I did hear recently, this may have changed recently, in the finders favour??
Definitely NO
I also asked this question with regard to black bears, and was told it will not effect your hunting allotment.
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Hahaha!
I could see myself doing this also, besides I have 8 hungry dogs to feed.
Up near our place on hwy18 we are getting more and more hit deer, and on my drive down to Victoria last weekend as I passed through gold stream park off the Malahat Hwy I saw 3 roadkill deer, and I know it is a matter of time before one gets hit by me or in front of me by someone else.
Seems a pitty to waste it.
Take some photos and send them to the paper the next time the anti-hunting whiners pipe up about the revisions to the hunting regs. Hit by a car and wasted is more righteous that being shot and eaten by a hunter?
LH
Yup, and it is no coincidence that the majority of the road kills happen to be occurring where land is being developed for condos so there is no hunting in those areas anymore.
Also I noticed down on the highway to Victoria that the Highways department has decorated the scrub land between the roads with nice tasty wild flowers...saw two dead fauns (still with spotted coats) on the side of the road in that area.
It was allegedly in the proposed changes to the Wildlife Act that have been available to the public since October.
The deadline for comment was July 15.
The Vancouver Sun made a big fuss about it and made it a headline front page story and the Sun and the Province also attempted to create some hysteria in the public by mentioning other proposals such as encouraging young people and women to take up hunting.
I looked through all the proposed changes and did not find anything anywhere that suggest you would be able to pick up roadkill and keep it.
Maybe I was reading too fast.
Maybe there is something about it being permitted if you had a tag, but what would happen and you have a tag but the carcass is a doe and you don't have a doe LEH?
They are all just proposals and it'll be a long time before some are adoped and accepted or rejected.
I was much more concerned about the proposal that commercial wildlife operations such as guide outfitters and wildlife viewing operations be regulated less by the govt. and be ruled by their own organizations.
And you can bet that those two articles in the papers generated a bunch of wingnut anti-hunting comments to the proposed changes.
Probably more than from us, because we're still arguing whether the 270 is better than the 30-06 and can't be bothered to see the forest for the trees.
The deadline for comment was July 15.
The Vancouver Sun made a big fuss about it and made it a headline front page story and the Sun and the Province also attempted to create some hysteria in the public by mentioning other proposals such as encouraging young people and women to take up hunting.
I looked through all the proposed changes and did not find anything anywhere that suggest you would be able to pick up roadkill and keep it.
Maybe I was reading too fast.
Maybe there is something about it being permitted if you had a tag, but what would happen and you have a tag but the carcass is a doe and you don't have a doe LEH?
They are all just proposals and it'll be a long time before some are adoped and accepted or rejected.
I was much more concerned about the proposal that commercial wildlife operations such as guide outfitters and wildlife viewing operations be regulated less by the govt. and be ruled by their own organizations.
And you can bet that those two articles in the papers generated a bunch of wingnut anti-hunting comments to the proposed changes.
Probably more than from us, because we're still arguing whether the 270 is better than the 30-06 and can't be bothered to see the forest for the trees.
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- Vancouver Island BC
I have seen what's left of a deer after being munched by a logging truck, not something I want to scrape up and cut a tag for.
But for a moose I can see the reasoning and you can also put in an insurance claim for the damage on your truck.
But for a moose I can see the reasoning and you can also put in an insurance claim for the damage on your truck.
