Name: Beaver Island Wildlife Club expands habitat and cormorant-control work, 2007
Start: 2007-06
End: 2007-06
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2007-06
Kind: Conservation
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: wildlifeconservationenvironmentcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The Beaver Island Wildlife Club hosted DNR habitat specialist Brian Mastenbrook, discussed food plots and deer management, and reported major cormorant pressure on Lake Geneserath. The Club also planned an egg-oiling effort on Gull and Pismire islands and sought volunteers and funding.

Evidence limits

The article preserves reported observations and planned actions; it does not independently verify fish-loss estimates, treatment results, or permits.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

Bob Tidmore, “Beaver Island Wildlife Club Meeting,” Beaver Island Forum, March 20, 2007.
The meeting notice set a March 29 discussion at the St. James Fire Department concerning the cormorant issue and spring activities. It documents planned civic attention, not the meeting's attendance, decisions, permits, or biological findings.
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Beaver Beacon, June 2007, "Wildlife Club Improving Habitat."
Reports DNR food-plot assistance, habitat work near Miller's Marsh, deer-management discussion, cormorant impacts on Lake Geneserath, and plans to oil eggs on Gull and Pismire islands. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2007-06_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, June 2007, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the Wildlife Club report.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2007-06_Beaver-Beacon
Bob Tidmore, “Beaver Island Wildlife Club Meeting,” Beaver Island Forum, July 10, 2007.
A July 10 notice scheduled a July 12 meeting at the St. James Fire Department with a hunters dinner and raffle, cormorant update, and habitat-planting updates. It documents the planned agenda, not attendance, decisions, permits, or results.
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Bob Tidmore, “Beaver Island Wildlife Club Meeting,” Beaver Island Forum, November 7, 2007.
The meeting notice lists a treasurer's and secretary's report, hunters-dinner planning, deer-survey statistics, a proposed letter or signs discouraging harvest of small bucks, a cormorant-control letter to the DNR, and a meeting with the Chamber about the Michigan Outdoor Writers Convention. It documents the planned agenda, not attendance, decisions, agency response, or biological results.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Wildlife Club expands habitat and cormorant-control work, 2007”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-wildlife-club-cormorant-habitat-2007/, accessed [date], citing Bob Tidmore, “Beaver Island Wildlife Club Meeting,” Beaver Island Forum, March 20, 2007. (and 4 further sources listed on the page).

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