- Dates
- 1977-11 – 1978-01
- Kind
- Observation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- huntingconservationenvironmentcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 1978 Beaver Beacon reports 66 deer taken by an estimated 300 hunters on Beaver Island and four deer by an estimated 17 hunters on Garden Island during the 1977 rifle season. It also comments on rabbit hunting and the prospects for winter ice fishing.
Evidence and limits
These are newspaper-reported estimates and observations, not an official harvest ledger, license file, complete hunter list, or wildlife census.
Sources
- Reports 66 deer taken by an estimated 300 hunters on Beaver Island and four deer by an estimated 17 hunters on Garden Island; names Mark LaFreniere and Diane Wojan’s repeat first-deer reports, Ron Gregg’s 195-pound ten-pointer, and an unnamed 224-pound Garden Island eight-pointer; and comments on rabbit hunting and hopes for ice fishing. It does not provide a harvest ledger, license file, complete hunter list, or wildlife census. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1978-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held nine-page January issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the reported game figures and observations.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1978-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island 1977 deer-season and winter game report”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-game-news-deer-season-1977/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1978, “Game News.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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