Name: Great Lakes islands biodiversity and threats report places Beaver Island among priority islands, 2010
Start: 2010-10
End: 2010-10
Location: Beaver Island

Locator map: Beaver Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago — Took place at Beaver IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

Event

Date: 2010-10
Kind: Publication
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: scienceconservationenvironmentwildlifegeographycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The October 2010 Beacon summarized the “Islands of Life” report on Great Lakes island biodiversity and threats. The report’s threat discussion included development, tourism, habitat degradation, invasive species, and climate change; Beaver Island appears in the listed threatened-island group.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper summary rather than the underlying report or a Beaver Island site assessment. The ranking and threat claims should be checked against the original publication before treating them as a complete island-specific finding.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, October 2010, "Great Lakes Islands."
Summarizes the Islands of Life report’s biodiversity and threat rankings, including Beaver Island in the listed threatened-island group, and identifies habitat degradation, invasive species, development, tourism, and climate change as pressures. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, October 2010, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the report summary.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Great Lakes islands biodiversity and threats report places Beaver Island among priority islands, 2010”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-great-lakes-islands-biodiversity-report-2010/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 2010, "Great Lakes Islands." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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