- Date
- 1988-11
- Kind
- Conservation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Wildlife Club
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- wildlifeconservationanimalscommunityrecreationcommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Wildlife Club reported a voluntary November deer check station, member training in aging and antler measurement, and a Big Buck Contest won by Bob Barnes with a Garden Island buck.
Evidence limits
These are club and newspaper measurements, not a complete harvest dataset, official scoring record, or population study.
Sources
- Reports a voluntary check of 42 deer, including four from Garden Island, training by DNR biologist Nels Johnson, and Bob Barnes’s 11-point, 115.05-inch Garden Island buck winning $230. 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 · 1988-12_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eighteen-page December issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1988-12_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Wildlife Club reports deer check and Big Buck Contest, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-wildlife-club-deer-check-and-big-buck-contest-1988/, accessed [date], citing “Wildlife Club,” Beaver Beacon, December 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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