You can finally, legally harvest your roadkill in Oregon
By Eder Campuzano The Oregonian/OregonLive June 21, 2017 at 10:03 PM
In Oregon, under a road kill bill passed overwhelmingly by the Legislature and signed by the governor, motorists who crash into the animals can now harvest the meat for human consumption.(Pat Wellenbach/AP)
It used to be against Oregon law to harvest the meat of certain critters killed by the state's drivers. Gov. Kate Brown changed that with the stroke of a pen last week, approving a law passed without a single "no" vote in the state legislature.
The Associated Press reports that the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission has until January of 2019 to adopt rules for permits allowing the harvesting of meat from deer and elk killed on state roadways.
(What? Did you really think they'd let you do this without a permit?)
According to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's current roadkill guidelines, only licensed furtrappers are allowed to handle protected animals killed by vehicles. (Other critters, such as coyotes, skunks and nutria were fair game.)
"It's not a legal method of hunting," the agency's site says.
The state's current roadkill guidelines come into play rarely enough (between 2007 and 2013, ODOT recorded 42,904 wildlife deaths) that some folks have broken them for years. A Republican official in far-flung Josephine County told the AP that residents there have harvested roadkill for years "and they never needed a law or permit to do it."
And if you're wondering how to prepare a dish made from roadkill, well, there are tutorials for that. Yum!
Oregon Adds ‘Third Gender’ Option to Driver’s Licenses
By Ben Kew 5 Jul 2017
Authorities in Oregon have introduced a third option of “non-binary” to its driver’s licenses, becoming the first state to provide more than two genders on an official identification document.
Instead of identifying themselves as either male or female, residents who determine themselves to be “non-binary” will now have the option to choose the letter X to avoid revealing their biological gender.
Oregon’s Driver and Motor Vehicle Services said it introduced the practice after a judge in Oregon ruled last year that veteran Jamie Shupe, who had been living as a woman, could be legally recognized as neither man nor woman but instead as “gender non-binary,” becoming the first person in the United States to do so.
Shupe told NBC News that he and his partner watched on live-stream as transportation officials took a vote on the matter, describing it as a “highly emotional” moment.
“It was highly emotional. Me and Sandy watched it on YouTube, the whole time the two of us tightly clinging to each other, and crying. I keep drying them, but the tears keep coming,” he said.
Last week, Washington, DC, became the first jurisdiction to offer a gender-neutral driver’s license, and lawmakers in California and New York are drawing up similar legislation.
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