Name: U.S. Fish and Wildlife rejects a proposed Beaver Island goose refuge after survey, 1957
Start: 1957-06
End: 1957-06
Location: Beaver Island

Locator map: Beaver Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago — Took place at Beaver IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

Event

Date: 1957-06
Kind: Conservation
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: conservationwildlifegovernancepublic-servicehuntingcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The June 1957 Beaver Beacon reported that U.S. Fish and Wildlife personnel surveyed Beaver Island for a possible goose refuge. The paper said refuge requirements would close too much northern Island land to hunting, fishing, and some roads, and described improving duck hunting as the preferred direction.

Evidence and limits

This is a newspaper account of a survey and reported policy conclusion. It does not provide the survey, proposed boundary, formal agency decision, or later management action.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, June 1957, “U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE MEN.”
Reports that U.S. Fish and Wildlife personnel surveyed the Island for a possible goose refuge and concluded that minimum requirements would close too much northern Island land to hunting and fishing and some roads. The paper says the preferred direction was to improve duck hunting using natural resources rather than pursue a costly project that might fail. It does not provide the survey, boundary proposal, agency decision, or later management action. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, June 1957, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held four-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the reported survey and conclusion; it does not expand the wildlife or regulatory record.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “U.S. Fish and Wildlife rejects a proposed Beaver Island goose refuge after survey, 1957”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-goose-refuge-survey-1957/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 1957, “U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE MEN.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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