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Event

Aerial salt-block placement on Garden and Hog Islands (1974)

Also 1974 Game Club salt blocks · Garden and Hog Island wildlife blocks

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeEvent
WithinGarden Island · Hog Island
ErasModern era

Summary

The March 1974 Beaver Beacon reports that Sheldon Parker and Bill Wagner used Bill Welke’s airplane to place four wildlife salt blocks on Garden Island and one on Hog Island.

Evidence and limits

This is a newspaper account of a habitat-management action, not an aircraft log, mapped work record, or wildlife-impact study.

See also

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, March 1974, “Game News.”
    Reports that Sheldon Parker and Bill Wagner used Bill Welke’s airplane to drop four salt blocks on Garden Island and one on Hog Island. The report does not identify the aircraft, exact date, block locations, or later wildlife outcome.
    beaver_beacon · 1974-03_Beaver-Beacon