About Us
Who is Roadkill Art?
Roadkill Art is founded by Janet Arneau to help change how communities see and use an often overlooked resource: wild game roadkill. Through the Roadkill Art app, educational content and recipes on the Roadkill Art website, and the book Yellow Line Dining, we teach how to responsibly recover roadkill to be utilized as food. The app connects registered members who report roadkill with those interested in retrieving it, while our educational work explores lawful recovery, safe handling, processing, and cooking.
We bring together a specific community that values roadkill wildlife, resourcefulness, and putting sustainability into practice. We Find It. We Cook It. We Eat it. and We Give it Away.
Mission
The mission of Roadkill Art is to connect people with an often-overlooked source of nutritious game meat through our app, helping them make the most of a valuable resource and embrace a more sustainable lifestyle.
Our app brings together a community of people interested in recovering roadkill for consumption, providing a place to share knowledge, skills, and practical guidance. Through education and connection, we encourage the safe, responsible, and legal use of roadkill available year round.
We challenge the misconception that roadkill has no value and help people recognize its potential as food worth recovering rather than wasting.
We provide State ROADKILL LAWS
Before you collect roadkill, know the rules. Roadkill recovery laws vary by state, and in Canada by province, and territory. Roadkill Art brings together guidance and links to official sources to help you understand where recovery is permitted, what permits or reporting may be required, and whom to contact.
Explore your location’s requirements in the app, and confirm current rules with the appropriate wildlife agency before collecting an animal. From the app Map View page click the star at the bottom, for detailed information click on your state.
Roadkill as Opportunity
Beginning in the 1920’s roadkill has been treated as an unfortunate by product to avoid removal and forget after driving by. This mindset has changed, now roadkill is being recognized as a food source and ecological signal.
While developing and deploying a roadkill reporting and retrieval app, Roadkill Art works with individuals and communities who stopped asking “How fast can we get rid of it?” and started asking “Let’s test it and see if it fresh in order to get processed”. Patterns have emerged from the app; more repeat strike zones are known, monthly spikes in roadkill for each state are known, and people who have never considered eating roadkill, now are. Ignoring roadkill doesn’t make it go away, but it does takes away someone having a few pounds of game meat in the freezer. What would change if we treated roadkill not as a common misfortunate loss but as opportunity?
Change the Distance Wheel to See What Canadians are Reporting
Canada is now a part of the Roadkill Art App! 'Roadkill Reports' can be made from anywhere in the country and viewed by clicking on a location marker. Canada is home to six deer species. The White Tailed Deer, the most widespread species, found particularly in forests and suburban edges. The Mule Deer found in the west, Alberta, Saskatchewan and BC, identified by large ears, white rump patch and a bounding gait. The Moose the largest of the deer family found in boreal forests and wetlands. The Elk or Wapiti also large and very social animals, found in the west with dark, shaggy manes and light brown bodies. The Caribou found in the north and in some alpine areas, both males and females grow antlers. And the Black Tailed Deer a smaller cousin of the mule deer, commonly found in the coastal forests of BC. Wildlife is owned and managed by the government, you can take roadkill but must contact authorities in a province or territory for permission and regulations.
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When on Back Roads Turn on the Roaming Option
Sometimes on back roads where quality big game roadkill is and where it is safer to pull over and make a roadkill report, phones can have poor connectivity. Carriers do not reach all locations. For this reason when making a roadkill report in the Roadkill Art app the report might not log into the system immediately, being visible on the Map View and List View. Go to your settings and turn on the roaming option. Your phone now has the ability to connect to other carriers that do cover the location and the roadkill report will instantly log into the app. When using the roaming option domestically phone bills do not increase or receive added charges.
Install the App to Easily Find Roadkill
Find it with the Roadkill Art App
With over 90 M pounds of big game roadkill available on US roads annually the Roadkill Art App is the tool to help you find what your local roads produce. After the app is installed check the 'Map View', look for a location marker near you, click on it, discover what has been reported. The 'List View' feed list reports, scroll through to see what is fresh and available.
The distance wheel at the top of the page is set on 50 miles, it can be changed up to 5000 miles, making visible reported roadkill as far away as Alaska, Hawaii or Canada. The 'Regulations' icon at the bottom of the 'Map View' page leads to every states roadkill laws and regulations for taking roadkill. Many states require no action, others require calling police or sheriff departments for permission and some require filling out a form for the Department of Natural Resources. The Roadkill Art App is easy to use. Roadkill Art aims to help anyone load up a supply of game meat.