- Dates
- 1963-06 – 1963-10
- Kind
- Conservation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- conservationcommunitytourism
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
For three seasons, St. James Township raised a deer fawn in a pen at the Yacht Dock, according to the October 1963 Beaver Beacon. The article specifically thanks Mary and Perry Gatliff for bottle-feeding the fawns three times a day for more than four months each season.
Evidence and limits
The report does not identify individual fawns, the pen’s exact location, or the township’s administrative or wildlife records. The event is retained as a source-bounded stewardship account.
Open questions
- Do township, Conservation Department, or contemporary photographs document the fawn program?
Sources
- A later community recollection remembers a fawn pen between the Ferry Dock and Yacht Dock and family members feeding fawns, including one called Jackie. The thread does not establish which season the memory describes, so it enriches the Yacht Dock setting and preservation lead without proving an additional 1963 animal or date.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 00 · t000518
- Says St. James Township had raised a fawn in a Yacht Dock pen for three years and thanks Mary and Perry Gatliff for bottle-feeding the animals three times daily for more than four months; it does not give animal records or township minutes.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1963-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held six-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1963-10_Beaver-Beacon
Added 2 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “St. James Township deer-fawn stewardship at the Yacht Dock, 1963”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-fawn-stewardship-1963/, accessed [date], citing Shirley Cole et al., “Can someone fill in the "blanks" for me?,” Beaver Island Forum, January 14–24, 2006. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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