More Moose are killed on the train tracks during winter and on road ways than all other deaths combined

Practical Alaskans! Suprised they didn't do something like this sooner, is logical!

I'm sure the expense of a officer standing by for hours played a greater role in the decision.Problem is that if that it is not field dressed before transport,the meat will degrade and some rights group will complain that some other starving souls are being fed inferior protein.Then all future roadkill will be disposed of.Although a 1000 lbs. might not degrade very fast, that was the argument made in Illinois about the deer donated to food pantries.I wish them well .

good use of what is less, but they have to get them right after they're hit.

As a Conservation Officer in the early 70's I picked up road kill deer and they were taken to schools, jails and other institutions to be used. However this practice was stopped because the people were not getting "government inspected " meat. I am surprised that Alaska is getting by with this and I do think it is a good idea. After they quit letting me donate them to the institutions I found private citizens that were eager to salvage what they could from the animals. From my experience I made the decision as to whether the animal was okay for human consumption. I never had a private citizen complain that they got sick from eating one of these deer. In our rural areas eating wild game is a way of life. Someone from the city cannot relate to these things and to these ways.