Beaver Island hunter reports buck in velvet, 1988

Event

Date: 1988-12
Kind: Conservation
Where: place/two-rivers
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: wildlifeanimalsconservationcommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The December 1988 Beaver Beacon reports that Steve Connaghan took an unusual 12-point buck still in velvet near Two Rivers and received a special red tag.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper hunting anecdote and conservation-warden explanation, not an official harvest, biological, or enforcement file.

Sources

“Buck in the Velvet,” Beaver Beacon, December 1988.
Reports Steve Connaghan’s 12-point, 180-pound buck, the Conservation Warden’s red-tag explanation, and the report’s possible hormone-imbalance explanation. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, December 1988, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held eighteen-page December issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island hunter reports buck in velvet, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-buck-in-velvet-1988/, accessed [date], citing “Buck in the Velvet,” Beaver Beacon, December 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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