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| Your tax dollars at work: Arizona repository houses roadkill for use by tribes |
| 2019-04-01 |
| FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) ‐ Arizona Native American tribes on the hunt for animal hides, antlers, teeth and other parts for cultural and religious use have a unique new resource: the state’s wildlife agency. A recently launched program allows Arizona’s nearly two dozen tribes to make requests to the state Game and Fish Department for animals that have died from poaching or natural causes, or after being hit by a vehicle. Agency game managers, researchers and other employees then keep an eye out for the carcasses as part of their regular work. "It’s all just opportunistic collection of what we find out in the field," said the department’s tribal liaison, Jon Cooley, who grew up on the Fort Apache reservation in eastern Arizona. So far, the program’s biggest customers are the Navajo Nation, which has collected bear and mule deer carcasses, and the Hopi Tribe, which has requested turtle shells, and turkey and water fowl feathers. The agency also gathered turtle shells for New Mexico pueblos, often used as ankle or hand rattles in ceremonial dances. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 What about storing road killed illegals there after they hire merc squads to go out at night and run them down ? Just tell them big oil wants pumping stations and pipelines run then it is legal to kill men women and children just like in the middle east! Or better yet have our elite combat drivers train children like in Yemen to run the bugs over cuz why it will be legal just add oil and gas! |
| Posted by: Angoluse Snoter7633 2019-04-01 18:43 |
| #4 And making jobs for roadkill scrapers! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-04-01 12:46 |
| #3 Saving the planet! Not to mention, reducing manmade global climate change. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2019-04-01 09:53 |
| #2 An interesting perspective P2k. Thanks ! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-04-01 08:05 |
| #1 Navajo Nation stretches across both northern AZ and NM. Area of the federal reservation is about 25,000 square miles (Rhode Island is about 1,200 square miles). IIRC, federal rulings already give the native tribes hunting and fishing rights. One tribe in the Northwest can hunt one whale a season. It probably is better for wildlife management to deliver material from the already dead than have the tribe take down live ones where they'd have far less control. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-04-01 07:59 |