Threatened Road Kill

(Orange City, Florida) This report doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Two Orange City men who picked up a dead Florida black bear from Interstate 4, skinned it and cut it up into steak-sized chunks, quickly regretted their decision to butcher the threatened species, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission official said this morning.

According to Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman Joy Hill, it's illegal to pick up dead threatened animals. The men turned themselves in and received a warning.

I'm wondering how a dead animal could be threatened.