Moose salvage - search results. Recent heavy snow accumulation is pushing moose onto Alaska. The roadkill salvage program in the Mat Su Borough is rotating. Alaska Has a Moose Roadkill Problem With state funds dwindling, what to do with a thousand pounds of mammal on the roadway, blocking traffic and attracting scavengers like bears?

FAIRBANKS — A moose conservation group’s plan to pick up road-killed moose and deliver them to charities in Fairbanks this winter fell through because of lack of funding, the same reason the Alaska Moose Federation mothballed its salvage program in Anchorage this winter. “Our trucks are parked with a foot of snow on them,” AMF director Gary Olson in Anchorage said. The nonprofit organization was hoping to begin picking up moose killed on Fairbanks-area roads this winter using flatbed trucks equipped with winches and emergency lights. The AMF started a similar salvage program in the Anchorage bowl last winter and retrieved almost 50 dead moose from the roads in the course of five months.

The organization delivered the moose to whatever charity was assigned by Alaska State Troopers to receive it. The salvage program was hailed by Anchorage police and Alaska State Troopers, who say the quick retrieval time — less than a half hour — made it safer and cleaner for everyone involved. But the cost of buying commercial auto insurance so volunteer drivers could respond and pick up moose made it too expensive for the organization to continue the Anchorage program and impossible to expand it to Fairbanks, Olson said. “We hoped to do it (in Fairbanks) this winter but it just didn’t work out that way,” he said. “We had some real serious disconnect with people who promised us stuff and didn’t come through. “We had a couple grants with (the Department of Transportation) that disappeared,” Olson said. “When we lost those grants it left no money for the salvage program.” Lt.

Lantz Dahlke with Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Fairbanks said “it would have been great” to have the AMF retrieving road-killed moose this winter because it’s often hard to find charities that want to pick up moose hit by cars in the middle of the night in the middle of winter. Olson said the AMF has submitted proposals to Gov.

Sean Parnell for funding to expand the salvage program and he’s hopeful it will be resurrected next winter. The Alaska Moose Federation was started in 2002 to encourage moose conservation in Alaska. The organization has worked with the state departments of transportation, fish and game and public safety, as well as the Alaska Railroad, to reduce vehicle and train collisions with moose and improve habitat. The motto of the organization is to “grow more moose.” Contact staff writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587.

THE ROADKILL PROGRAM Anchorage, Alaska 2009 In Alaska moose are considered state property under the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG). Only in Anchorage every year, even two hundred moose are crashed into by cars on rural and urban roads. In order to recycle such a valuable food resource the roadkill program was designed by the ADFG. The program consists of a list of applicants to who file to be the recipients of the moose meet. Families, NGOs, Charities all can apply to the meet distribuition.

Morrowind For Love Or Money Mod Farming. When the police receive news of a moose roadkill, these teams rush to the scene of the accident to butcher the animal, which must be quickly bled, gutted and quartered so the meat can cool as fast as possible. The meat is taken to churches and NGOs which distribute it to needy families, soup kitchens make stew. Local residents may also register to be included on the “roadkill list” ensuring that the valuable meat is not wasted. Around 200 moose are distributed in this way each year in Anchorage only. The sale of moose meat is illegal in Alaska.