What animals can i strip to a skeleton to display?
You will probably need a scavenger’s permit from your game department and possibly something from the USF&WS as well. Remember also that road-kill frequently has broken bones. When I was in college, I took a couple of courses that involved making study skins of mammals. I do not recall that we needed any permits, although, as I recall, almost all of the animals we worked with were non-game animals. One thing that you might do is to keep meticulous records, covering the date, the exact location, and possibly some measurements of the animal. I can still dig up the data on specimens I took half a century ago. Don’t forget to note roadkill as “DOR” (dead on road). If you have a notebook that you have been maintaing for some time (at least well before some warden tries to make a federal case out of it), you are in better shape when it comes to proving that you never killed the animal.
