ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A moose conservation group has renewed a program to salvage the meat of moose killed by vehicles.
The Anchorage Daily News says the Alaska Moose Federation expanded its Anchorage moose salvage program to the Mat-Su area and plans to also set it up in the Fairbanks area and the Kenai Peninsula.
The program was suspended more than a year ago because of lack of funding. The program restarted in Anchorage Jan. 1 after funding was restored through a $700,000 grant from the state Legislature.
The state allows nonprofit organizations to salvage the meat of road-kill moose. Moose collected by the federation is delivered to designated charities for off-road butchering.
Federation director Gary Olson says the group has two trucks in Anchorage and just added five in Mat-Su.
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