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Beaver Island trapping-season report (1960)

Also 1960 trapping totals

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeEvent
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era

Summary

The May 1960 Beaver Beacon reported that Beaver Island’s trapping season had ended and gave three informal catch totals: 11, 7, and 37 for named groups.

Evidence and limits

These are newspaper-reported stories, not a species-specific harvest register or wildlife survey. The identities of “the Carlisles and Wojans” are not resolved.

Open questions

  • Which conservation or trapping records identify the species, participants, and total harvest?

See also

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, May 1960, “Fur Coat Anyone.”
    Says the trapping season was over and reports Karl Kuebler and Dr. Johnson catching 11, Chuck Dudley and Tony McDonough 7, and the Carlisles and Wojans 37. It does not identify species, effort, trap lines, or provide a harvest or wildlife-management record.