- Date
- circa 1964-01
- Kind
- Conservation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 1964 Beaver Beacon described Beaver Island as heavily populated with snowshoe rabbits and reported successful hunting by Milt and his beagles, Erwin Martin and his brothers, and other named hunters. It also listed several people who had joined the island’s rabbit-hunting ranks.
Evidence and limits
This is a seasonal newspaper account. It does not provide a harvest register, licenses, effort data, or a wildlife-population survey.
Sources
- Describes a heavily populated snowshoe-rabbit season, reports daily-limit success by named hunters, and lists additional hunters; it does not provide a harvest register, license data, or wildlife survey.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1964-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held six-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 · 1964-01_Beaver-Beacon
Added 2 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island winter rabbit-hunting season, 1964”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-rabbit-hunting-season-1964/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1964, “Rabbit Habit.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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