Rotting deer carcasses in Pa. yard raise stink

Hundreds of rotting deer carcasses in a southwestern Pennsylvania yard are causing a stink among the neighbors. Randy Good of North Buffalo Township has a contract with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to remove the animal carcasses from roads in five counties.

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Colorado tests way to reduce elk-car collisions

Colorado highway planners are experimenting with the same technology used by some prisons for perimeter security to prevent drivers from colliding with deer and elk.

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Illinois DOT plans to leave more roadkill behind

The view along Illinois highways this summer should be beautiful — for the turkey vultures.

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Wisconsin man starts Web site devoted to roadkill

Richard Sanders hadn't given much thought to roadkill until a buddy came across a very large bear on the roadside near Hudson. The animal was bigger than any trophy bear the friends had bagged over the years, and they thought it deserved a better fate than rotting by the road.

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Buzzards or vultures by either name seen as ugly and pesty

Maybe if they were pretty, the ubiquitous buzzards that soar over Texas and elsewhere on their way to dine on some carcass wouldn't be viewed with such repugnance or be considered nuisances.

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Student Tries to Make Roadkill Pretty

For the past several weeks, drivers near Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville have been noticing odd things about some of the roadkill on the sides of the area's highways.

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Roadkill Chili with Habanera Peppers - Tasty, Deadly - Laugh Til You Cry Kind Of Stuff

I received this email not to long ago, with no attachment of who wrote it, so I can't give credit to whom ever is due, But I most definitly laughed so hard it brought tears to my eyes, So I wanted to share it and possibly give some one else a good laugh, Hope it doesn't bring b …

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Rat stew, fox cub fricassee, hedgehog casserole – no it's not a medieval banquet, they're the main courses at Jonathan McGowan's roadkill dinner parties.

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How broke would you have to get to eat roadkill?

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Yes, folks, it was Google who killed Bambi, and here's the proof

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Waking Up to a Dead Dog

The first thing I saw when I looked out my front door this morning was a dead dog at the end of my driveway. Living on a busy highway like I do, I'm neither surprised nor concerned for the dog. It's not my dog. It's obviously dead. It is, however, in my way.

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Fergus Drennan is a t.v. star, best known for his show "The Roadkill Chef" and now, as of April Fool's Day, he is living for a year entirely off wild food found in the forest.

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CARBONDALE, Ill. - The view along Illinois highways this summer should be beautiful — for the turkey vultures. The state's transportation department says it won't be picking up as much roadkill left along roads because it spent too much of its budget during the winter.

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A friend of mine who is from West Virginia told me that for awhile the Annual Roadkill Festival was cancelled because they didn't want "folks" hunting with their cars. Guess it's back on...

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Is the picture real?

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Richard Sanders has launched a Web site where people can post photos and measurements of mighty fine roadkill. That's right, a roadkill hall of fame. He's calling it the Road Kill Record Book Club. It's like the Guinness book, but for critters that tangled with traffic.

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Forager will live on dead animals, roadkill and wild plants for a year Mr Drennan has been interested in foraging since he was a child and has learned to recognize what wild food is not poisonous to humans. He is a successful chef specializing in dishes made from such food, bu …

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A program associated with saving the tasmanian devil population from the facial tumour disease is being hampered by the death of some of them on the roads.

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Animal lovers and those who enjoy cute toys will not be keen on the latest gory range available at a shop near you. Introducing the adorable (?) roadkill toys.

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...Health inspector Darrell Brackney ordered the La Charreada restaurant closed Wednesday after checking on a tip about butchering, which he said took place as customers ate lunch in the dining area.

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Will fresh badger burgers replace Turkey Twizzlers? A new series from Jamie Oliver will champion the culinary merits of roadkill. In the BBC programme Road Kill Café, viewers are shown how to forage by the roadside for foxes, squirrels and chickens that have met a sticky end.

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Squirrels, Snowboards, and the Car Commercial Mentality

"Save a squirrel. Squash a flatlander." - anonymous "If it's tourist season, how come I can't shoot one?" - anonymous "Zoom Zoom Zoom!" - Mazda. We like tourists up here in the mountains.

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Un. Believable.

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