- Date
- 2008-09
- Kind
- Observation
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentwildlifecommunicationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
During a morning walk on Karnes Road, Lois Williams described meeting two velvet-antlered bucks with racks of roughly six to eight points. The deer followed her for part of the road before moving into the woods.
Evidence limits
This is a first-person newspaper nature observation, not a population survey, species-management assessment, or precise wildlife location record.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, September 2008, "A Walk on the Wild Side."Reports Lois Williams encountering two six- to eight-point bucks in velvet on Karnes Road; the deer followed her briefly before turning into the woods. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the wildlife observation.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Lois Williams observes two velvet-antlered deer on Karnes Road, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-wild-deer-observation-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2008, "A Walk on the Wild Side." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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