Welcome to Roadkill Art
A free app made for easily finding roadkill.
Check the Map View & List View daily for fresh roadkill near your location that can be consumed or used for art.
National Roadkill Day
What will you be Cooking on Friday September 25th?
September 25 every year we Celebrate 'National Roadkill Day' cooking game meat dishes we share with others who have never had wild game. Roadkill sustainability helps meet current dietary desires providing healthy meat that supports economic positions, contributing to the needs of people. We invite you to join us in the Roadkill Art App on the Yellow Line Diner page. Come see what we are cooking up! Once you learn roadkill is edible, roadkill left to vultures can provide as much as 50 lbs. of meat in your freezer. Game meat cooks can now showcase their creativity turning ordinary roadkill into a delicious creation with their own platform in the 'Yellow Line Diner'.
Roadkill Art Introduces 'Yellow Line Dining'
A book that guides those interested, through the steps needed to consider an available wildlife meat source. Roadkill Art has spent years researching and looking closely at what most people pass without a second thought: roadkill. Yellow Line Dining brings that accumulated knowledge, observation, and imagery together in a new book devoted to roadkill, an overlooked subject that Roadkill Art has made its focus. Part field record, part visual study, and part meditation on the roadside, Yellow Line Dining invites readers to look again at something both commonplace and largely unseen. What if what we have been driving pass is an abundant sustainable meat source? Perception changes with knowledge knowledge Roadkill Art put in 22 chapters and 187 pages.
Roadkill History
The car gave rise to a culture that indulges in roadkill.
In 1899 America put it's first car on the road. In 1913 Henry Ford introduced mass production. In the 1920’s car speed was 30-40 mph, the decade creating roadkill. In the 1930’s with cars up to 50-60 mph, (pictured) big game deer, was included in the list of fallen animals. In 1950 with 152 M cars on US roads, bans to outlaw taking roadkill began. In the 1960’s cars over took hunting as the biggest demise of wildlife. Today due to legislators, animal activist and technology, roadkill bans are replaced with laws and regulations designed by each states Natural Resource Departments. US roads produce any where north of 90 million lbs of game meat annually. The Roadkill Art App list every states Roadkill Regulations, the only place for cumulative US updated roadkill laws.
Why do people Utilize Roadkill?
Roadkill is a Good Healthy Meat Source
Roadkill is used to Make Art and Taxidermy
Roadkill is used to Make Art and Taxidermy
Game meat is packed with Omega-3. The highest proportion of Omega-3 comes from wild animals that have grown up eating grass and other vegetation. Omega-3 has been reported to offer many health benefits such as brain health helping fight depression and anxiety which improves moods, cognitive decline and symptoms of ADHD are reduced and memory is improved.
Roadkill is used to Make Art and Taxidermy
Roadkill is used to Make Art and Taxidermy
Roadkill is used to Make Art and Taxidermy
Artist looking to craft handmade goods from leftover scraps and skins also know as taxidermist make taxidermy art from roadkill. Animals that have met an early demise are supplies for creative minds. Taxidermy is sometimes the only way we get a close look at cute critter's and wildlife. Fashion minded artist will use fur for clothing, hats and purses or dried bones for jewelry.
Roadkill when Utilized Reduces Waste
Roadkill is used to Make Art and Taxidermy
Roadkill when Utilized Reduces Waste
Utilizing roadkill helps prevent a valuable natural resource from going to waste. When a healthy wild animal is struck by a vehicle, much of the meat may still be usable if the animal is recovered promptly, evaluated carefully and handled according to local laws. Instead of allowing roadkill to be left on the roadside turning into waste or needing to be disposed of it can provide meals for a community.
Check Ground Temperatures all Year Long
Vital to Roadkill Safety is Ground Temperature
Check ground temperatures worldwide at Soil Temperatures. Knowing ground temperatures aids knowing at any time of year if roadkill is safe to take for consumption. Summer heat on roads can fry an egg and spoil roadkill. The ground acts like a thermal battery. Soil Temperatures has easy search by city, ZIP code, or landmark. Giving current soil temperature, forecasts and multiple depths below ground surface temperatures. Checking ground temperature helps determine roadkill freshness for consumption..
There are 144 Wildlife Overpasses in the US
Each Overpass Location Represents High Big Game Populations
There are 144 wildlife overpasses throughout the United States, with a significant concentration in the Western states. These structures, often called "green bridges" or "ecoducts," are designed to provide safe passage for animals across busy highways, effectively reconnecting fragmented habitats and reducing dangerous wildlife-vehicle collisions. The first dedicated wildlife overpass was constructed near Beaver, Utah, on Interstate 15 in 1975. Overpasses allow for the continued migration and genetic exchange of species like mule deer, elk and moose. Roadkill Art App member's should frequently check these locations and report roadkill.
Become a Roadkill Reporter
Help Others Fill the Freezer with Meat
Roadkill Reporter’s with each report are providing other member’s free game meat, especially desired big game, not waisting good future venison steaks or burgers. The simple task of reporting roadkill in the Roadkill Art App leads to providing a community a lot of meals, including soup kitchens giving the security there is plenty to go around. However, always pay attention to safety, be aware of on coming traffic, your safety and those with you always comes first! After three reports we make you an official "Roadkill Art Reporter" with a safety orange Roadkill Art tee-shirt. Little critter's count too!
Become a Roadkill Retriever
Keep Your Freezer Full
For anyone with the means to pick up roadkill, check the 'List View' or 'Map View'. Look for a location marker near you set your distance wheel, see the picture and watch the video. It could be your lucky day finding a fresh 150 + pound deer within your zip code. Soup Kitchens can check the app daily to see if big game has recently been reported. Artist can check for smaller roadkill. Members can fill the freezer by checking to see if big game has recently been reported. The Roadkill Art App makes it easy to find any of the 90 + M lbs of roadkill reported every year on US roads. Most people have been conditioned to pass roadside roadkill thinking it's waste. But with the right information and the app in your phone, fresh wild game can be evaluated properly and utilized as a wholesome meat resource.
City, County and State Benefits with App Use
When app members help retrieve roadkill, government agencies have less to remove. This allows cities, counties, and states to redirect staff and funds to other priorities. Departments such as Public Works, the Department of Transportation (DOT), Environmental Services, Street Maintenance, and Sanitation handle roadkill removal. In California roadkill cleanup costs approximately $200 million each year. Highway and road cleanup spending is shared between state and local governments, with states covering about 59% and local governments 41%. States generally fund highways and tollways, while local governments maintain smaller roads where roadkill is easiest to access and collect. Stay visible and wear safety orange when stopping to report or retrieve roadkill.
Press Releases
Roadkill Art “the App” at the Roadkill Cook Off Festival for 'National Roadkill Day'!