- Date
- 2000-09
- Kind
- Announcement
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Wildlife Club
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- wildlifeconservationenvironmentpublic-servicecommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Lois Williams’s September 2000 Wildlife Club article asked Islanders and visitors not to hand-feed wild turkeys or deer. It distinguishes the club’s planned, limited winter feeding stations for turkeys from feeding deer, which the article says do not need supplemental food and could face increased disease risk when concentrated at bait piles.
Evidence limits
This record preserves the Wildlife Club’s guidance and the article’s disease claim; it is not an independent wildlife-population or epidemiological study.
Sources
- Explains the club’s planned supplemental winter feeding of turkeys while cautioning against making turkeys or deer dependent on people; it also cites a multi-county deer-feeding ban related to tuberculosis transmission. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2000-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the wildlife guidance article.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2000-09_Beaver-Beacon
Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Wildlife Club urges residents not to feed wild turkeys and deer in 2000”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-wildlife-club-keeping-wildlife-wild-2000/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2000, “Keeping Wildlife Wild,” by Lois Williams. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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