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Beaver Island offers deer checking and aging during Thanksgiving week, 2017

Also Beaver Island deer check and aging 2017

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TypeEvent
Dates2017-11-22 – 2017-11-24
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Dates
2017-11-22 – 2017-11-24
Kind
Wildlife monitoring
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
wildlifehuntingconservationrecreation
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

During Thanksgiving week 2017, Levi Connor offered Beaver Island hunters deer checking and aging, encouraging participation to improve the island’s record. A follow-up reported that he checked and aged at least one buck on Thanksgiving Day and presented a successful-hunter patch.

Evidence limits

This is a community monitoring and service notice, not a complete harvest count, age-distribution dataset, or formal Wildlife Club management report.

Sources

  1. Connor offered to check and age deer during the holiday week and said more checked deer would improve the record. A follow-up says he visited one home on Thanksgiving Day and recorded and aged a buck and presented a successful-hunter patch. The posts do not provide a complete harvest dataset or biological analysis.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 12 · t012560

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island offers deer checking and aging during Thanksgiving week, 2017”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-deer-checks-2017/, accessed [date], citing Levi Connor, “deer check and ageing,” and Donna Stambaugh, “Thanks, Levi,” Beaver Island Forum, November 22–24, 2017..

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