- Date
- 1962-04
- Kind
- Conservation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- conservationenvironmenteconomycommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The April 1962 Beaver Beacon reported Walt Wojan trapping a 53½-pound beaver, the largest of his season, and said the opened road to the South End Lighthouse gave island trappers access to more territory.
Evidence and limits
The report supplies a local trapping result and approximate average weight, not a complete season ledger or a historical population estimate.
Sources
- Reports Walt Wojan trapping the season’s largest Beaver Island beaver at 53½ pounds, with an average of about 35 pounds, and says access to the South End Lighthouse road expanded the trapping area. The prehistoric-beaver comparison is clearly a newspaper aside, not a modern specimen record.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1962-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held six-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 · 1962-04_Beaver-Beacon
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Walt Wojan reports a 53½-pound Beaver Island beaver, 1962”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-beaver-trapping-1962/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1962, “Beaver Trapping.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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