Name: Beaver Island hunters report difficult coyotes and good rabbit hunting, 1960
Start: 1960-02
End: 1960-02
Location: Beaver Island

Beaver Island hunters report difficult coyotes and good rabbit hunting, 1960

Also 1960 Beaver Island coyote and rabbit hunting report

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TypeEvent

Date1960-02

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 1960-02
Kind: Observation
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: wildlifehuntingcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The February 1960 Beaver Beacon says coyotes had been difficult for hunters to take, while rabbit hunting was unusually good. Archie and Karl promised a better coyote report in a later issue.

Evidence limits

The item supplies no effort, harvest, license, or biological records.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, February 1960, "The Wary Coyotes."
Says coyotes have been giving hunters a hard time, while Archie and Karl promised a better report next time, and says rabbit hunting was unusually good. It does not provide effort, harvest, license, or biological records.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1960-02_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, February 1960, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held four-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the hunting observation.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1960-02_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island hunters report difficult coyotes and good rabbit hunting, 1960”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-coyote-and-rabbit-hunting-1960/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1960, "The Wary Coyotes." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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