- Dates
- 2014-10-03 – 2014-10-10
- Kind
- Conservation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- conservationinvasive-species-and-ecological-stewardshippublic-healthcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In October 2014, Beaver Island residents used the forum to report wild parsnip along roads and at several island locations, discuss the plant’s blistering hazard, and encourage property owners to report or remove it safely. The thread also refers to a planned spot-treatment effort and funding that later connects to the island’s 2015 invasive-plant program.
Evidence limits
The forum preserves community observations and a reported treatment plan, not a botanical survey or agency determination. The locations are approximate, and the archive does not establish the extent of infestation, legal authority to treat property, or treatment results.
Sources
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Sources
- A participant attributed wild-parsnip locations to invasive-species surveys along McCauley's Road and the south end of Kings Highway, identified a treatment coordinator, and referenced a National Park Service safety flyer. Other participants reported observations near Indian Point, Iron Ore Bay, the Lighthouse School, and Pine Street; a later post linked the planned use of Sustain Our Great Lakes funding. The archive does not contain the underlying survey, specimen confirmation, treatment map, or outcome.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 08 · t008060
Added 8 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island community reports wild parsnip and discusses treatment, 2014”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-wild-parsnip-community-response-2014/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “Wild Parsnips,” October 3–10, 2014..
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