Name: Beaver Island state-park purchase deferred for lack of Conservation Department funds, 1961
Start: 1961-02
End: 1961-02
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 1961-02
Kind: Announcement
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: conservationgovernancecommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The February 1961 Beaver Beacon reported that a Beaver Island state-park purchase would have to wait because the Conservation Department could not fund new land purchases.

Evidence and limits

The report does not establish a park boundary, appropriation, designation, or later state decision.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, February 1961, Beaver Island Improvement Workshop report.
Reports that Beaver Island would have to wait before becoming a state park because Conservation Department finances did not permit the purchase of new park lands. It does not identify a proposal boundary, appropriation, designation, or later decision.
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Beaver Beacon, February 1961, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held nine-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the reported policy notice.
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Added 8 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island state-park purchase deferred for lack of Conservation Department funds, 1961”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-state-park-purchase-deferred-1961/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1961, Beaver Island Improvement Workshop report. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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