Greetings All,
Many thanks for all the responses to my question "how to obtain a salvage
permit so I can collect road killed birds for deposit to a museum?"
This is from Dr. Richard Johnson at WSU: "People who find a window or
road-killed bird often bring in them to us (Conner Museum, WSU) or to Dennis
Paulson at the Slater Museum at UPS, and those people rarely have salvaging
permits. We then include the birds in our annual reports to the wildlife
agencies. However, if a person plans on regularly looking for birds to
salvage, one should have a permit, or preferably be operating under another
a museum's permit. For example, Mike and MerryLynn Denny regularly salvage
birds, and they operate under our permit. That saves them from having to
renew permits and make reports every year, and also makes it easier for the
wildlife agencies, because it reduces the number of separate permits and
reports they have to handle. I simply have their names included on the face
of our
permit and provide them with a copy that shows they are legally authorized
to
salvage.
We could do the same for you, if you wish. The permits indicate the
collection into which the specimens are to be deposited. If you were
subpermitted
under us, the specimens would go to WSU; if under Dennis, they'd go to UPS.

Salvaging a threatened or endangered species is a different matter. In
such cases a state wildlife agent must be contacted first, because the
agent may want to verify the identification and cause of death, and perhaps
obtain other information."

Dave Beaudette
Wenatchee,WA
drtbrdr AT earthlink.net