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Next Meeting
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Coming in June....
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Founded in 2002,
Citizens for Access to the Lakeshore (CAL)
monitors for, and
responds to any actions by the National Park Service (NPS) that may
result in a diminishment of public access in Sleeping Bear Dunes
National Lakeshore where it is not necessary to protect Lakeshore
resources. We support preservation of the Lakeshore’s natural, cultural
and historical features and the purpose of the Park as established in
the enabling legislation creating the Park. We oppose bureaucratic
attempts in any form to rewrite the Park’s “purpose”, as
expressed in the 1970 enabling legislation that put the Lakeshore
under federal jurisdiction as established in good faith with the
support of the citizens of the State of Michigan at the time. Members receive comprehensive
newsletters as news of significance occurs. CAL actively
participates in many National Park Service (NPS) citizen input
processes, including, and especially the NPS 2006-2008 General
Management Plan/Wilderness Study. |
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SLEEPING BEAR DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE
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Located in
well as agricultural development. The natural harbors at
South and North Manitou Islands brought safe haven to many a ship, while
other ships that were not so fortunate shipwrecked, many still lying on
the lake bottom.
Historical features throughout the Park’s acreage on
the Islands and on the Mainland are many, including an 1871 lighthouse,
three former Life-Saving Service/Coast Guard Stations, Port Oneida (a
historically significant former farming community), Boekelodge
(an old, restored cabin deep in the woods of Benzie County), Glen
Haven (a tiny community removed from their homes by the establishment
of the Park), and many other features. The Lakeshore comprises
56,993 federal acres and 4,194 non-federal acres.| Press Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes
/ Citizens for Access to the Lakeshore
Harold K. Chase, Regional
Representative for Michigan’s US Senator Carl Levin, will be the
featured speaker during the educational outreach program of the
Annual Meeting/Get Together of Citizens for Access to the Lakeshore
(CAL). The meeting will be held at 7 pm on Wednesday, August 5, at
Empire Township Hall on Front Street in downtown Empire.
Refreshments will include cookies and lemonade or other liquids. CAL
members are encouraged to attend, and all interested members of the
public are invited. |
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