LANSING — Michigan Department of Natural Resources officials signed and issued a permit Friday allowing a partially sight-impaired wild fawn to be placed at a facility where native, live animals are kept for educational purposes.

Thursday afternoon, the facility submitted an official request to the DNR required to keep an injured or otherwise impaired animal, that because of its condition, is unable to be released back into the wild.

The name of the facility is not being released by the DNR to give the fawn time to acclimate to its new surroundings. The deer was brought to the facility by the Detroit Animal Welfare Group.

Typically, fawns aided by animal rehabbers in the spring must be released into the wild by Oct. 1 to give them time to reacquaint themselves with food resource locatio

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