- Date
- 1961-12
- Kind
- Sports
- Where
- Round Lake
- Participants
- Rogers W. Carlisle (participant) · Don Welke (witness)
- Carried out by
- Rogers W. Carlisle
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- conservationenvironmentcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The December 1961 game column describes Rogers Carlisle hunting blue geese near the northeast end of Round Lake. After one bird was shot and the flock flew toward the Welke farm, a bird fell just over the fence from Don Welke’s home.
Evidence and limits
This is an anecdotal hunting report, not a harvest record or precise location survey.
Sources
- Reports Rogers Carlisle hunting a small flock of blue geese at the northeast end of Round Lake, shooting one, and following the flock’s flight toward Don Welke’s farm, where a bird fell over the fence. It is a humorous community account and does not provide a specimen record, exact farm parcel, or harvest documentation.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1961-12_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 · 1961-12_Beaver-Beacon
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Rogers Carlisle’s Round Lake goose hunt ends at the Welke farm, 1961”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-round-lake-blue-geese-hunt-1961/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 1961, “A Goose Story.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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