Summary
The held newspaper reprints identify a State of Michigan Conservation Commission as the body issuing Beaver Island game restrictions in 1938, 1941, and 1952. The orders cover deer, sharp-tailed grouse and prairie chicken, and cottontail rabbits.1
This is a source-qualified agency record connecting the three legal instruments and their named officers. It is not a complete institutional history of the commission or the Michigan Department of Conservation.
Evidence and limits
The source wording supports the commission’s regulatory role and the repeated State of Michigan context. It does not by itself establish the commission’s legal founding, boundaries of authority beyond these orders, successor agency, or complete membership. The records of the Department of Conservation and the commission are kept distinct from the individual signatories.
Open questions
- Where are the commission minutes, original orders, and game-division files for these restrictions?
- What institutional records connect this commission to the later Michigan Department of Natural Resources?
- Which officers and directors served between the three Beaver Island orders?
See also
- Michigan Conservation Commission Beaver Island Deer Closure Order (1938)
- Michigan Conservation Commission Beaver Island Sharp-Tailed Grouse Closure Order (1941)
- Michigan Conservation Commission Beaver Island Cottontail Rabbit Closure Order (1952)
- Beaver Island
Footnotes
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Charlevoix County Herald, October 9, 1942, and September 5, 1952, reprinted State of Michigan Conservation Commission orders. ↩
Sources
- State of Michigan, Conservation Commission orders reprinted in Charlevoix County Herald, October 9, 1942, and September 5, 1952.The 1942 reprint names the Commission in the 1938 deer and 1941 sharp-tailed-grouse/prairie-chicken orders and identifies the Department of Conservation director and commission officers.
- Charlevoix County Herald, September 5, 1952, cottontail-rabbit order.The 1952 Beaver Island order names the Conservation Commission and the countersigning Director of Conservation.