Name: Beaver Island Water Trail signage reported missing or displaced, 2019
Start: 2019-08-16
End: 2019-08-19
Location: Beaver Island

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Event

Dates: 2019-08-16 – 2019-08-19
Kind: Infrastructure damage report
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: water-trailrecreationpublic-safetyconservationcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

In August 2019, a forum post reported that several Beaver Island Water Trail signs were missing and that others had been removed and found near the tree line. The signs were intended to identify legal shoreline landing sites and help paddlers avoid trespassing.

Evidence limits

This is a contemporaneous community report, not an incident report or inventory. It does not establish who moved the signs, whether removal was intentional, or how many signs were affected.

Open questions

Were the missing or displaced Water Trail signs recovered or replaced, and by whom?
Was the removal ever determined to be intentional, or was it storm and water damage as one participant suggested?

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Sources

Pam Grassmick, “Water Trail Signage Being Vandalized,” Beaver Island Forum, August 16–19, 2019.
The post reported that several small water-trail signs were missing and others had been taken down and found near the tree line. It explained that the signs identify legal shoreline landing sites for paddlers and warned that replacement funding would be needed. The post does not establish who removed the signs, the full number affected, or whether the damage was intentional.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Water Trail signage reported missing or displaced, 2019”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-water-trail-signage-vandalism-2019/, accessed [date], citing Pam Grassmick, “Water Trail Signage Being Vandalized,” Beaver Island Forum, August 16–19, 2019..

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