Road Kill
"CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA is trying to rid the Kennedy Space Center of vultures after the shuttle struck one of the large birds during lift-off last year on the first flight after the Columbia disaster.
The space center has set up what it calls a "road kill posse" to quickly clear as many carcasses as possible from the 6,000-acre site, in hopes of encouraging the vulture population to relocate by cutting off its food supply.
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The agency is preparing to resume shuttle launches this summer from the space center, which lies within a wildlife preserve.
Its roads are dotted with the bodies of possums, raccoons, feral pigs, squirrels, birds and other animals fallen victim to traffic. The center is asking anyone who sees dead animals to call a "roadkill" hotline to report the location."
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Rick used to work with a man who grew up in Missouri living with his grandmother. She would go to town in her old pick up truck every morning, and all the road kill that she found on the way in to town and on the way home would go into the back of the pick up and end up on the dinner table that evening.
There may be volunteers to do that roadkill pick up for free....LOL
The space center has set up what it calls a "road kill posse" to quickly clear as many carcasses as possible from the 6,000-acre site, in hopes of encouraging the vulture population to relocate by cutting off its food supply.
...
The agency is preparing to resume shuttle launches this summer from the space center, which lies within a wildlife preserve.
Its roads are dotted with the bodies of possums, raccoons, feral pigs, squirrels, birds and other animals fallen victim to traffic. The center is asking anyone who sees dead animals to call a "roadkill" hotline to report the location."
(article)
Rick used to work with a man who grew up in Missouri living with his grandmother. She would go to town in her old pick up truck every morning, and all the road kill that she found on the way in to town and on the way home would go into the back of the pick up and end up on the dinner table that evening.
There may be volunteers to do that roadkill pick up for free....LOL
posted by Amethyst Rising at 9:01 AM
6 Comments:
We call it the Two Day Rule in Oklahoma. After two days, it might be a little tough to cut through.
LOL...
In the winter time, if someone hits a deer and it's not too torn up, the sheriff's dept. has a call list to come get the deer for butchering... I think this is a good idea, for the same reason that I don't think people should go hunting to kill anything they are not going to eat...
Maybe we just shouldn't ask...
Hey, as long as no one knows where it came from, what's the harm.
"What's for dinner, hun?"
"Street Pizza!"
I actually saw a road kill cookbook once. It makes me sad to see animals run over all over the place . . . but I agree that at least people (or vultures, whatever) should eat the remains so the death wasn't completely wateful.
So... I probably shouldn't aim for that family of ducks when I'm out of grocery money, huh?
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