- Date
- 1969-05
- Kind
- Observation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- fishingagriculturerecreationenvironment
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The May 1969 Beaver Beacon reported a strong smelt run in the Jordan and Shoemaker’s Creeks, rainbow trout catches in Fox Lake, bluegills in Barney’s Lake, and the beginning of the Island’s morel mushroom season.
Evidence and limits
These are newspaper observations, not a catch register, fisheries survey, or mushroom harvest total.
Sources
- Reports a nearly week-long smelt run in the Jordan and Shoemaker's Creeks, rainbow trout catches in Fox Lake, bluegills in Barney's Lake, and the beginning of the morel mushroom season; it does not provide a catch register, fisheries survey, or mushroom harvest total.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1969-05_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eight-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published spring game report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1969-05_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island spring smelt, trout, bluegill, and mushroom season begins, 1969”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-fishing-and-mushroom-news-may-1969/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 1969, “Game News.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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