Where Every Claim on This Site Came From
Each statement about who is responsible for a carcass was taken from a government source that was open on a stated date: ODOT's contact and carcass-programme pages, the Oregon Revised Statutes as the Legislature publishes them, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Oregon Department of Agriculture, and the county and city pages behind each market. Where a source turns up nothing, that is what the page reports. A rule that exists across a state line does not get carried over the border to fill the hole, and on this site that mattered twice: Oregon's salvage permit runs in the opposite order from its neighbours', and Oregon has no chronic wasting disease regime at all.
The short answers
| What this is | An advertising business whose calls route to independent operators, who do the work and set the price; also a standing record of who answers for a carcass in this state |
| What we are not | Not a removal operator, not a branch of government, not a testing lab; nothing here is medical or legal advice |
| Pricing | Absent. No rate on this site has been verified by anybody, so the only real figure is the one an operator says out loud |
| Operator coverage | Recorded county by county. None of Oregon's thirty-six counties is confirmed today, and each page repeats it |
| Operator capability | Settled on the call, not asserted by a page. No one reachable here opens a finished wall or ceiling |
| Road authority | ODOT's Carcass Collection Program on major state roadways; ODOT Contact Us for the Ask ODOT channel, 1-888-275-6368; Jackson County Roads' dead-animal page; Washington County's Land Use & Transportation referral |
| Wildlife authority | ODFW: roadkill salvage permits, chronic wasting disease in Oregon, and the Wildlife Control Operator permit page |
| Carcass statute | ORS 601.140, cited by section and held to the domestic animals and the owner or keeper it names; ORS 601.080(1) for the hauling licence, ORS 601.990(2) for the penalty, ORS 601.020(2) for the exemptions; the Oregon Department of Agriculture's livestock mortality page as the agency restatement |
| County power | NOT ESTABLISHED. No Oregon county may-remove power at public expense was located, and ORS chapters 203, 368, 431 and 433 were not read at section level, so this is recorded as unverified rather than absent |
| Handling guidance | Multnomah County Animal Services: gloves and a facemask as needed, a shovel or another tool rather than bare hands, then triple-bagging; exposure questions go to a local health department or a vet |
From an agency page to a sentence here
- The page is read, not recalled. The source stays open while the sentence is written, and whichever line carries the weight goes inside quotation marks. Everything published at launch was read on 2026-09-20, and that date travels with the claim.
- A quote keeps its own scope. ORS 601.140 names "the carcass of any domestic animal, which the person has owned or had in charge", so its 15-hour clock runs for a keeper of a steer or a dog and for nobody else. It is the most quotable and most misquotable fact in Oregon on this subject, and it is not stretched to a raccoon somebody found. ODOT's programme covers major state roadways, so it is not stretched to a county road, and certainly not to anything lying on a lawn.
- Absence is written down as absence, and unverified as unverified. No Oregon homeowner statute for a dead wild animal was found, and ODOT publishes no carcass-specific reporting channel. Both appear as gaps, with the chapters and pages that were checked. Where something was simply not read, such as the DEQ landfill rules or a county's private-property power, the page says so rather than treating it as settled. No policy is reverse-engineered out of silence, and no fee is inferred from a page that states none.
- Four separate questions get separate answers here: who picks a carcass up, who may keep it, how far it may be moved, and where it may end up. Oregon's salvage permit answers the second. ODFW's disease page answers the third, and the answer is that there is no in-state restriction. Neither says anything about the first, which is the one most callers are actually asking.
- A recommendation stays a recommendation. ODFW recommends disposing of deer waste parts near the site of harvest, in a landfill, or through routine rubbish collection. The word is preserved, because a reader who needs a prohibition should find one only where a rule genuinely imposes it. The one genuine Oregon prohibition here is on importing central nervous system tissue from another state.
- Each city page prints its own limits: what the quoted source leaves unsettled, which is usually private property, deer, how long a pickup takes and what it costs. Quoted sentences sit alongside the table they support, so the gap between what an agency published and what you actually wanted to know stays visible instead of being smoothed over.
Why no figure appears here
Publish a range and you have committed somebody else to it. No operator routed through this line has given this site a rate it could stand behind, and lifting a figure from a directory, or from a state whose disposal economics are nothing like Oregon's, would dress a guess up as research. The figure is assembled on the call from the animal, its position, the access needed, and where it can be taken afterwards. Nothing on this page previews that figure or competes with it. Figures appear in two narrow places only. One is statutory: ORS 601.990(2) makes a breach of ORS 601.140 a Class D violation, and that is labelled as a penalty wherever it is cited. The other is a fee an agency published itself, such as the cremation costs Multnomah County lists for a deceased pet, which are attributed to that county and dated.
What was read
| Source | Used for |
|---|---|
| ODOT: the Carcass Collection Program on major state roadways; ODOT Contact Us | Who removes a carcass from the state highway system; Ask ODOT 1-888-275-6368 as the channel; move it off the road only if safe, otherwise 911 |
| Jackson County Roads dead-animal page; Washington County Land Use & Transportation referral | The county contact for a county-maintained road, and the explicit exclusion of city streets, state highways and private property |
| ORS 601.140, 601.080(1), 601.990(2), 601.020(2) | The domestic-animal disposal statute's real scope and its owner-or-keeper limit, the hauling-for-hire licence, the Class D penalty, the exemptions |
| ODFW Roadkill Salvage Permits | Who may keep a deer or elk killed by a vehicle; the free permit within 24 hours AFTER taking possession; head and antlers surrendered within five business days |
| ORS chapters 203, 368, 431, 433 | NOT READ at section level. Whether an Oregon county holds a power to remove from private property at public expense is unverified, and is reported as unverified rather than as an absence |
| Oregon Metro garbage and recycling disposal; Lane County Transfer via the City of Eugene | Where a resident may take a carcass. Verified as practice, not as rule: Oregon DEQ solid-waste rules in OAR chapter 340 were NOT read at section level |
| ODFW: chronic wasting disease in Oregon; Wildlife Control Operator permit | That CWD has not been detected in Oregon and residents face no in-state carcass movement restriction; the permit regime the word licensed refers to |
| Oregon Department of Agriculture livestock mortality page | The agency restatement of ORS 601.140 for farms |
| multcopets.org, washingtoncountyor.gov, eugene-or.gov, jacksoncountyor.gov, and each county's roads and animal-services pages | The wording each county or city publishes for itself, reproduced on that market's page |
Everything in that table is a government publication. The URL for each row and the day it was read appear with the guide that relies on it, again on the resources page, and again in the authority block of each city it touches. Nothing on this site comes from a directory, a review platform, a competitor's page or a machine-generated summary.
What this site cannot tell you
- No page here can quote a price, confirm that an operator covers your address, or commit anybody to a particular job. Those three answers exist only in conversation, and for the second the honest answer in every Oregon county today is that nobody is confirmed.
- A rabies question is not this site's to settle. Where a person or a pet has been in contact with the animal, that belongs to a vet, a physician or a local health department, and nothing written here stands in for any of them.
- Agency pages move. A date is the only freshness claim any page here makes. It records when the source was last opened, not that the source still reads the same way this morning. Each page is reopened on a quarterly cycle, and whatever a reader reports gets checked at the source before the page itself moves.
- Some ground was deliberately left unread. Burial rules and kerbside cart policies were checked for some Oregon markets and not others, so where a line here calls a rule local it means exactly that and no more: the local text behind it was not always opened. Oregon DEQ's solid-waste rules in OAR chapter 340 were not read at section level, so what this site says about landfills and transfer stations is verified practice rather than verified rule, and it says so on the page. Where a source is linked rather than transcribed, that is so you read it on the day you need it.
The ranking between sources, and what happens once a correction lands, are both set out in the editorial policy. If a line here has gone out of date, send the source that supersedes it.