Name: Mild winter leaves Beaver Island deer outside their customary yards, 1960
Start: 1960-02
End: 1960-02
Location: Beaver Island

Mild winter leaves Beaver Island deer outside their customary yards, 1960

Also 1960 Beaver Island deer remain outside winter yards

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TypeEvent

Date1960-02

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 1960-02
Kind: Observation
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: wildlifeweather
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The February 1960 Beaver Beacon reports that deer were still roaming rather than entering their customary winter yards, which the paper attributes to a mild winter.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper observation, not a survey, yard map, snow record, or biological explanation.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, February 1960, "The Deer."
Reports that deer had not entered their customary yards and attributes the behavior to the mild winter. It does not provide a survey, yard map, snow measurements, or biological explanation.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1960-02_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, February 1960, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held four-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the deer observation.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1960-02_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Mild winter leaves Beaver Island deer outside their customary yards, 1960”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-deer-roaming-mild-winter-1960/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1960, "The Deer." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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