Roadkill Rescue with Concordia College

MOORHEAD — It might be one of the most morbid sights on our region’s roadways.

But now, you can give a happy ending, of sorts, to the region’s roadkill — by bringing it home with you and your family.

Concordia College is joining forces with the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum to help build its “Salvage Wildlife” project.

With the help of citizen scientists like you, it brings dead wildlife off the roads and out of nature into the science lab.

Then it turns their tissues — pelts, skeletons, and all the other cells — into valuable research material.

And they’re asking you to help them collect the critters, including the many birds who suffer birdstrike deaths when their make their way through the region during their seasonal migrations.

Biology students and professor Joseph Whittaker joined the Morning Show to talk about why it’s so important to bring these specimens in for study instead of letting them decompose on the roadways, and how you can safely handle and collect specimens to help out scientific research into the species in our region.

For more information:

ConcordiaCollege.edu/Biology and click on the Salvage Wildlife link.