Name: Beaver Island reports strong summer fishing and abundant fawns, 1969
Start: 1969-07
End: 1969-07
Location: Beaver Island

Beaver Island reports strong summer fishing and abundant fawns, 1969

Also July 1969 Beaver Island fishing and fawn report

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TypeEvent

Date1969-07

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 1969-07
Kind: Observation
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: fishingwildliferecreationenvironment
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The July 1969 Beaver Beacon reported strong fishing, including smallmouth-bass catches around Hog Island, and frequent sightings of does with one or two speckled fawns.

Evidence and limits

These are newspaper observations, not a catch register or wildlife census.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, July 1969, “Game News.”
Reports excellent fishing, Great Lakes Charter Service smallmouth-bass catches around Hog Island, a brief caddis-fly disruption, and frequent sightings of does with one or two fawns; it does not provide a catch register or wildlife census.
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Beaver Beacon, July 1969, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held six-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published fishing and wildlife report.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island reports strong summer fishing and abundant fawns, 1969”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-july-fishing-and-wildlife-news-1969/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 1969, “Game News.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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