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- Beaver Island
Summary
The April 1962 Beaver Beacon reported Walt Wojan trapping a 53½-pound beaver, the largest of his season, and said the opened road to the South End Lighthouse gave island trappers access to more territory.
Evidence and limits
The report supplies a local trapping result and approximate average weight, not a complete season ledger or a historical population estimate.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, April 1962, “Beaver Trapping.”Reports Walt Wojan trapping the season’s largest Beaver Island beaver at 53½ pounds, with an average of about 35 pounds, and says access to the South End Lighthouse road expanded the trapping area. The prehistoric-beaver comparison is clearly a newspaper aside, not a modern specimen record.