Literally the last sentence in the article:

> "The normal routine in such cases is to let nature take its course."

How embarrassing! I must have coalesced that last paragraph with the advertisement and missed it.

Nothing really can be done for the meat. Meat needs to be allowed to cool, rapidly, or it spoils. That's why field dressing deer is so important. You remove the guts and core of the animal to lower the temperature of the meat as quickly as possible. So if the meat has been sitting for even half a day it's long gone.

I had the same thought at first. Weirdly, I'm more curious if this was a herd that someone laid claim to or the more wild sort of reindeer. Mostly because if it is a persons or group's herd, they just lost a good amount of meat and income.