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Lighthouse School students remove Phragmites seed heads at Little Sand Bay, 2008

Also Invasives Plucked 2008

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Locator map: Little Sand Bay highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Little Sand BayLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypeEvent
Date2008-06
WithinLittle Sand Bay
ErasModern era
On this page
Locator map: Little Sand Bay highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Little Sand BayLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Event
Date
2008-06
Kind
Conservation
Where
Little Sand Bay
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
educationconservationinvasive-speciescommunity
Within
Little Sand Bay

Summary

The June 2008 Beacon reported that Lighthouse School students volunteered at Little Sand Bay, cutting and bagging Phragmites seed heads. The item placed the work within the school’s broader emphasis on community involvement.

Evidence limits

The report does not state the amount removed, identify every student, or measure the cleanup’s ecological effect.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, June 2008, "Invasives Plucked".
    Reports Lighthouse School students volunteering to cut and bag Phragmites seed heads at Little Sand Bay as part of a community-involvement curriculum. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-06_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held fifty-two-page issue scan confirms the student conservation item.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-06_Beaver-Beacon

Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Lighthouse School students remove Phragmites seed heads at Little Sand Bay, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-lighthouse-school-phragmites-cleanup-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 2008, "Invasives Plucked". (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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