Name: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeks Beaver Island-area input on a national wildlife refuge plan, 2009
Start: 2009-07-22
End: 2009-07-22
Location: Beaver Island

Locator map: Beaver Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago — Took place at Beaver IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

Event

Date: 2009-07-22
Kind: Meeting
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: conservationgovernancecommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a July 22 open house at Peaine Township Hall to gather input for a 15-year Comprehensive Conservation Plan for Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge and related Great Lakes refuges. The notice identified habitat, wildlife protection, and wildlife-dependent public use as planning concerns.

Evidence limits

This records the announced public-input meeting, not the final plan, attendance, or resulting management decisions.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, July 2009, "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Seeks Public Input on Hat, Shoe, Pismire, & Gull Islands."
Announces the July 22 Peaine Township Hall open house for public input on a Comprehensive Conservation Plan covering refuge islands in Lakes Michigan, Huron, and Superior. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, July 2009, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the refuge-planning notice.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeks Beaver Island-area input on a national wildlife refuge plan, 2009”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-wildlife-refuge-ccp-public-input-2009/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 2009, "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Seeks Public Input on Hat, Shoe, Pismire, & Gull Islands." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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