- Date
- circa 1977-02
- Kind
- Observation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- huntingfishingconservationenvironmentwildlifecommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The combined February–March 1977 Beaver Beacon reports rabbit hunting, poor ice fishing, about twenty-five beaver taken on Beaver and Garden Islands, and small turkey groups near the airport and Angeline’s Bluff.
Evidence and limits
These are source-reported observations and a local trapping total, not a complete harvest ledger, population survey, or biological record.
Sources
- Reports rabbit hunting, unproductive ice fishing, about twenty-five beaver taken by named trappers on Beaver and Garden Islands, and small groups of turkeys near the airport and Angeline’s Bluff, including eight or nine young birds. It preserves newspaper observations and warnings, not a harvest or trapping ledger, population survey, or complete biological record. 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 · 1977-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eighteen-page combined-issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the Game News observations and reported trapping total.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1977-02_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Game News reports trapping, turkey, fishing, and rabbit activity, 1977”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-game-news-february-1977/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February and March 1977, “Game News.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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