Summary
The Beaver Island Game Club is named in a November 1951 report as the recipient of an announced National Conservation Award. The same report attributes the island’s multi-decade wildlife-stocking program to the club working with state game officials.1
Evidence and limits
This is an episode-qualified organization record. The held source does not give the club’s formation date, officers, membership, charter, finances, or complete project history. The 1951 ceremony is recorded as announced, and the stocking sequence is preserved as a retrospective account rather than an audited register. The October–November 1972 issue adds a source-bounded habitat-work report and a planned hunters’ dinner.
Open questions
- When was the club formed, and who were its officers and members?
- Where are its minutes and state conservation correspondence?
- Did the November 17 award ceremony occur?
See also
- Announced National Conservation Award for Beaver Island in 1951
- Beaver Island Wildlife-Stocking Program from 1922
- Beaver Island Game Club habitat work and program planning (1972)
- Beaver Island Game Club hunters’ dinner (1972)
Footnotes
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Charlevoix County Herald, November 9, 1951, “Beaver Island To Be Honored.” ↩
Sources
- Charlevoix County Herald, November 9, 1951, “Beaver Island To Be Honored.”Names the Beaver Island Game Club as recipient of the announced National Conservation Award and attributes the island wildlife-stocking program to the club with state game officials.
- Beaver Beacon, October 1971, “Game News.”Reports completed apple-tree pruning, improving results from earlier pruning, and ten bushels of sweet clover and rye sown under a Bill Welke plan; it does not establish the club’s officers, work sites, budget, or wildlife outcomes.
- Beaver Beacon, November 1971, “Game News.”Reports the November 17 Hunters’ Banquet, more than 140 attendees, approximately 90 percent support for continuing bucks-only hunting, proposals for turkeys and Reaves pheasants, and a $2 membership fee; it does not provide minutes, formal votes, or wildlife orders.
- Beaver Beacon, October–November 1972, “Game News.”Reports Sheldon Parker taking over as president, completed volunteer clear-cutting, mineral blocks, apple pruning, clover-and-rye seeding, and proposed continuation; it does not provide minutes, maps, budgets, or wildlife outcomes.
- Beaver Beacon, September–October 1973, “Game News.”Reports seasonal observations of partridge, woodcock, rabbits, deer, and migrating geese; it does not identify the Game Club as author of every observation or provide wildlife counts.
- Beaver Beacon, November 1973, “Hunter’s Dinner.”Reports the November 17 annual Hunter’s Banquet feeding 132 hunters and names Dick De’Rosia as head chef; it does not provide a financial ledger or complete volunteer roster.
- Beaver Beacon, February 1974, “Game News.”Reports Sheldon Parker’s winter wildlife observations, an ice bridge toward Garden and High Islands, a rabbit-hunting visit to Garden Island, and about ten acres of poplar cut by Bill Wagner and Dick Burris for deer and rabbit browse; it does not provide a map, formal work log, wildlife census, or later outcome.
- Beaver Beacon, March 1974, “Game News.”Reports aerial salt-block placement on Garden and Hog Islands, D.N.R.-approved test netting through harbor ice, and conditional plans to plant grain and clover for wildlife habitat. The notices do not provide maps, minutes, budgets, complete crews, or later outcomes.
- Beaver Beacon, April 1974, “Game News.”Reports a special meeting with Troy Yoder, Herb Johnson, and local members and proposed turkey, pheasant, Mackinaw trout, timber, controlled-burning, and deer mineral-block projects. It does not establish approvals, funding, completed work, or later outcomes.
- Beaver Beacon, November 1974, “Game News.”Reports fall rabbit, partridge, and deer observations, the November 17 Hunter’s Banquet serving nearly 150 hunters, and a bucks-only season expected to produce a total in the sixties; it does not provide a wildlife census, complete roster, receipt ledger, or final season statistics.
- Beaver Beacon, November 1974, “Beaver Island Fly-In.”Says the Game Club prepared a charcoal-broiled whitefish dinner for about 450 Fly-In visitors and Cole Fisheries supplied the fish; it does not provide a menu ledger, attendance register, or financial record.
- Beaver Beacon, December 1974, “Game News.”Reports the completed deer season, rabbit hunting, possible winter perch fishing, trout recovery, and Paul Kenwabikise’s whitefish catch. The article is a Game News report and does not explicitly attribute every observation to the club or provide harvest, fishery, or wildlife records.
- Beaver Beacon, January 1960, “Game Club News.”Reports the Game Club’s $25 largest-deer prize, the 190-pound buck taken by E. R. Bergau, and a total of 172 deer killed on the island during the season. It does not provide the club’s full prize ledger, a legal harvest return, or complete season records.
- Beaver Beacon, February 1960, “Game Club.”Publishes the 1959 Game Club report with $1,124.67 in credits, $465.72 in listed disbursements, $658.95 on hand, and named work including a fish shelter, road projects, a 14-coyote bounty, and a largest-deer prize. It does not provide minutes, maps, receipts, or the trapper’s name.
- Beaver Beacon, December 1960, “Conservation News” and “Game Club News.”Reports the unofficial 112-deer 1960 season count, biologist checks, proposed wild-turkey planting, Game Club deer-prize winners, completed Hunters' Dinner with 160 people fed and $157.96 profit, $190 in memberships and arm patches, and the marked trail/color-map plan. It does not provide formal harvest, financial, wildlife, or trail records.
- Beaver Beacon, March 1961, “Game Club News.”Reports Rogers Carlisle’s 900 feet of 16mm promotional film showing deer herds, coyote hunting, and other island subjects, with free loans to responsible promoters. A separate summer-activities reel is described as planned, not completed.