California County Wants To Issue Permits For Religious Use of Roadkill

California's Calaveras County Fish and Game Commission has formally requested the state Department of Fish and Game for permission to issue permits to practitioners of Native American religions so they can salvage dead birds and animals for religious purposes. Today's Stockton (CA) Record says that the issue was raised when former prison chaplain, Fred Velasquez, was cited by a game warden for picking up a dead red-tail hawk near a California highway. Velasquez uses bones and feathers from dead animals to make the regalia used in ceremonies of the Roundhouse tradition.