- Date
- 2015-05-29
- Kind
- Conservation concern
- Where
- Fox Lake
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- treesconservationlandscapecommunity
- Within
- Fox Lake
In May 2015, a Beaver Island Forum participant reported that someone had carved initials into the Big Birch Tree near Fox Lake and described the damage as a threat to a valued island tree.
The thread preserves a local conservation concern, but not a verified tree age, size ranking, responsible person, or legal investigation.
Sources
- A participant reported initials carved into the Big Birch Tree near Fox Lake and said the tree was over 100 years old; a reply repeated an unverified claim about its size in Michigan. The thread documents a local conservation concern, not a dendrological survey, legal investigation, age determination, or verified state ranking.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 08 · t008792
- A later participant praised the fence around the tree and credited donors and installers, while saying that a small number of people still caused problems. This is community testimony that protective work existed by September 2021; it does not establish who organized or funded it, the fence date, or the nature of the later problems.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016743
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Beaver Island Archive, “Forum reports carving damage to Beaver Island’s Big Birch Tree, 2015”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-big-birch-tree-damage-report-2015/, accessed [date], citing A. Eicher and forum participants, “Big Birch Tree Carving Situation,” Beaver Island Forum, May 29, 2015. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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