- Dates
- circa 1959-11 – circa 1959-12
- Kind
- Conservation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Participants
- E. R. Bergau (participant) · James W. Barnes (participant)
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Game Club
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- conservationcommunitytourism
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 1960 Beaver Beacon reports that 172 deer were killed on Beaver Island during the 1959 season. It names E. R. Bergau as the Game Club’s largest- deer prize winner for a 190-pound buck and James W. Barnes as the Charlevoix Courier’s first-buck prize winner.
Evidence and limits
This is a newspaper season total and prize report, not a harvest register, regulatory return, or complete prize ledger.
Sources
- Reports E. R. Bergau’s $25 Game Club prize for the largest deer, a 190-pound buck; James W. Barnes’s $5 Charlevoix Courier prize for the first buck brought in; and a total of 172 deer killed on the island during the season. It does not provide a harvest register, legal season record, or complete prize documentation.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1960-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held four-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 · 1960-01_Beaver-Beacon
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Game Club deer prizes and 1959 season total”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-game-club-deer-prizes-1959/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1960, “Game Club News.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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