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Event

Fox Lake is poisoned and a trout-planting plan is approved (1961)

Also May 1961 Fox Lake treatment and trout plan

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeEvent
WithinFox Lake
ErasModern era

Summary

On May 1, 1961, Conservation Department biologist Fukano and Fish Division representative Jerry Meyers were reported to have poisoned Fox Lake. After testing, the plan called for legal-size rainbow or brown trout, and the Civic Association voted unanimously for the trout plan on May 5.

Evidence and limits

The article records treatment and a prospective management decision. It does not establish the toxicant’s identity, a formal stocking order, or survival.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, May 1961, “Fox Lake.”
    Reports Conservation Department biologist Fukano and Fish Division representative Jerry Meyers poisoning Fox Lake on May 1, explaining conditional rainbow or brown trout planting after toxicity testing, and the Civic Association voting unanimously for the trout plan on May 5. The report does not give full names, formal treatment records, or later survival.