- Dates
- 2009-04-15 – 2009-05
- Kind
- Conservation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- conservationmaritimegovernmentcommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Beaver Island Wildlife Club and USDA Wildlife Services planned a spring cormorant-harassment program in the harbor and at Lake Geneserath. The report describes boats and pyrotechnics to move birds from feeding areas, with lethal methods described for birds that did not leave outside the harbor, and says participants would follow federal rules.
Evidence limits
This records the reported program and its stated methods, not the number of birds, fish-restocking results, individual actions, permits, or enforcement outcome. The forum’s first-party clarification is useful for interpreting the intended local rules, but does not replace federal or state records.
Sources
See the sources block above.
Sources
- Wildlife Club organizer notice reports a follow-up meeting with Wildlife Services, solicits volunteers for harbor work, and distinguishes the separate Lake Geneserath effort. It documents program organization, not authorized methods, take totals, or ecological results.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 01 · t001589
- Beaver Island Wildlife Club organizer Bob Tidmore announced the April 15 volunteer training and spring harbor/Lake Geneserath program; follow-up posts by participants clarify that the local effort was harassment, not open hunting, and that live rounds were not to be used in the harbor. The thread also contains advocacy, humor, and copied secondary reporting that are not treated as independent evidence.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 01 · t001577
- Beaver Beacon, May 2009, "Blonking Those Bleeping Bellicose Birds."Reports an April 15 meeting and a mid-April-to-mid-May program using boats, pyrotechnics, and in specified circumstances lethal methods outside the harbor to deter cormorants. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2009-05_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the wildlife-management report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2009-05_Beaver-Beacon
Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Wildlife Club and USDA plan a cormorant harassment program, 2009”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-cormorant-harassment-program-2009/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “Cormorant harassment program Beaver Island Harbor”, April 17, 2009. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).
Last revised 2026-08-05. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.
BibTeX for “Beaver Island Wildlife Club and USDA plan a cormorant harassment program, 2009”RIS for “Beaver Island Wildlife Club and USDA plan a cormorant harassment program, 2009”