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Beaver Island agricultural conservation cost-share notice, 1974

Also 1974 Stabilization conservation practices · 1974 ACS Beaver Island notice

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TypeEvent
Datescirca 1974-04 – circa 1974-12
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Dates
circa 1974-04 – circa 1974-12
Kind
Conservation
Where
Beaver Island
Participants
Pete LoDico (announcer)
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
communicationconservationenvironmenteconomygovernance
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

An April 1974 notice described Agricultural Conservation Service cost-share practices for Beaver Island landowners and the Beaver Island Sportsman Club. The listed 1974 practices covered tree planting, forest-stand improvement, and permanent wildlife habitat at 75 percent of actual cost; restored 1973 REAP practices offered 50 percent cost sharing for woodland treatment and wildlife food plots.

Evidence and limits

This is a program-availability notice, not evidence of an application, approval, payment, acreage, or completed conservation work.

See also

Sources

  1. Reports 1974 cost-share practices for tree planting, forest-stand improvement, and permanent wildlife habitat at 75 percent of actual cost, plus restored 1973 REAP 50 percent cost-share practices for woodland treatment and wildlife food plots. It identifies Beaver Island landowners and the Sportsman Club as eligible and Pete LoDico in Boyne City as contact; it does not establish applications, approvals, payments, or completed work.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1974-04_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held seven-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1974-04_Beaver-Beacon

Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island agricultural conservation cost-share notice, 1974”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-agricultural-conservation-cost-share-1974/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1974, “Stabilization.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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