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Beaver and Garden Island deer-season totals are reported, 1979

Also 1979 deer season totals

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TypeEvent
Dates1979-11-15 – 1979-11-30
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Dates
1979-11-15 – 1979-11-30
Kind
Observation
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
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Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The December issue reports 76 deer and 448 hunters on Beaver Island and 12 deer and 23 hunters on Garden Island for November 15–30, 1979.

Evidence and limits

This is a newspaper tally, not a state harvest dataset, license register, or independently audited wildlife count.

Sources

  1. Reports 76 deer and 448 hunters on Beaver Island and 12 deer and 23 hunters on Garden Island during November 15–30. It is a newspaper tally, not a state harvest dataset, license register, or independently audited wildlife count. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1979-12_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held nine-page December issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the season totals.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1979-12_Beaver-Beacon

Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver and Garden Island deer-season totals are reported, 1979”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-deer-season-1979/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 1979, “Deer Season — Beaver Island.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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