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Jim and Joane McIntyre return to Garden Island, 2009

Also Garden Island return bucket list 2009

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Locator map: Garden Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Garden IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypeEvent
Date2009-10-05
WithinGarden Island
ErasModern era
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Locator map: Garden Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Garden IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Event
Date
2009-10-05
Kind
Occurrence
Where
Garden Island
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
heritagerecreationwildlifeconservation
Within
Garden Island

Summary

Jim and Joane McIntyre’s December 2009 article recounts their October 5, 2009 return to Garden Island after decades of hunting and camping there. It also records their observations of declining deer and other wildlife and a perceived increase in coyotes.

Evidence limits

This is a first-person experience and observation, not a wildlife census, archaeological survey, or independent land-use record.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, December 2009, "The Bucket List: Return" and "To Garden Island."
    Recounts the authors' decades of Garden Island hunting and camping, their October 5 return to the State Cabin, and their observations of declining deer and other wildlife and increasing coyotes. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2009-12_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the first-person account.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2009-12_Beaver-Beacon

Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Jim and Joane McIntyre return to Garden Island, 2009”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-garden-island-return-2009/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 2009, "The Bucket List: Return" and "To Garden Island." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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