- Date
- 2014-06-08
- Kind
- Wildlife observation
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- wildlifedeercommunityroadsenvironment
- Within
- Beaver Island
On June 8, 2014, a forum participant reported stopping for a doe that gave birth beside a Beaver Island road. The account said that two newborn fawns eventually stood in the road before following their mother into the woods; a second participant reported seeing another very small fawn that morning.
This is preserved as a detailed but unverified community wildlife observation. It does not establish a broader fawning rate, mortality outcome, or population trend.
Sources
- Lear described stopping for a doe giving birth beside a road south of the Terry and Nancy Saxton home, then seeing two newborn fawns enter the woods; another participant independently reported seeing a very small fawn in a road the same morning. The post is a detailed community eyewitness account, not a wildlife survey, photograph, or agency-confirmed observation.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 07 · t007500
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Beaver Island Archive, “Forum participant reports twin fawns born beside a Beaver Island road, 2014”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-twin-fawns-born-beside-road-2014/, accessed [date], citing Roger Lear and forum participants, "New island residents," Beaver Island Forum, June 9–13, 2014..
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