Wyoming is the first state to enact one of these laws. At least 20 other states have some kind of road kill salvage programme. Environmentalists worry that hunters might use it as an excuse to hunt something they are not permitted to hunt. Road kill can be a source of fresh meat for poor rural communities, and data from collisions between cars and big game could help authorities solve safety problems.
Today’s figures showing the first annual economic growth in three years may seem promising. But the grand plans of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio resemble past policies that have not worked. The finely tuned government of Bosnia is under grave threat from some of the same forces that caused its brutal war. And why roadkill is now on the menu in Wyoming.
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