Forester Stuart Boren from Florence, Wis., a border town adjacent to the Upper Peninsula, documented on June 25 the collateral damage that a severe winter has on whitetailed deer.
“I was watching a big doe from the house,” Boren said. “We had been seeing her for weeks and she was used to us. She had her head down and I could tell she was licking something. A half hour later, after she was gone, I went to where she had been.”
The doe had birthed twin fawns, both of which were dead.
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