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Summary
Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge is the organization name used by the 2023 Beaver Island Master Plan for the federal-refuge context of Hat, Shoe, Pismire, and Gull Islands. The same four islands are corroborated by a dated public Charlevoix County parcel snapshot, whose owner-label field uses the abbreviated form “MI ISLANDS NATION WILDLIFE REFUGE” on specifically identified island parcels.
This record provides a source-bounded connection among the outer-island place records and current public assessment data. The Plan describes Shoe and Pismire as administered through Seney National Wildlife Refuge of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; that statement is retained as a 2023 planning-source account, not expanded into a complete operational or legal history.
Scope and limits
Neither a planning document nor an assessment-layer owner label proves title, the date or terms of acquisition, a complete refuge boundary, access rules, current management practice, or the status of every island parcel. Those questions require the relevant acquisition, boundary, agency, and access records. The entry also does not reconcile the 1975 Hat Island sale advertisement with later public records.
See also
Sources
- Described in this archive: Beaver Island Master Plan, 2023.The plan identifies Hat, Shoe, Pismire, and Gull Islands as federally owned islands in the Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge; its description of Shoe and Pismire says the refuge is administered through Seney National Wildlife Refuge of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This planning document is a dated institutional statement, not an acquisition instrument, legal boundary, title record, or complete administrative history.planning · beaver_island_master_plan · documents · 2023-beaver-island-master-plan-2eb885fe
- Described in this archive: Current named-feature and property join records.The published owner-label field reads “MI ISLANDS NATION WILDLIFE REFUGE” for rows whose legal descriptions or site labels identify Hat Island (013-033-001-00), Shoe Island (013-033-002-00), Pismire Island (013-117-001-00), and Gull Island (including 013-456-001-00 and 013-457-008-00 through 013-457-011-00). These are current assessment-layer labels, not deeds, title continuity, a complete refuge boundary, acquisition history, access authority, or a current legal determination.county · charlevoix · parcels_arcgis · 2026-08-01 · island_parcel_attributes
Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/organizations/michigan-islands-national-wildlife-refuge/, accessed [date], citing Land Information Access Association, Beaver Island Master Plan (September 2023), p. 91. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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