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Meetings:
July 17, 2008 (on M-22 south of Esch Rd and just north of Riverside Canoe Livery) |
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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, and we oppose “wilderness” sanctions that are detrimental to preservation and resource protection, and exclude access. 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 effort currently underway to create a new General Management Plan and Wilderness Recommendation for Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. |
The National Park Service has published Newsletter
#4
of the General Management Plan/Wilderness Study.
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Located in Northwest
Michigan on the shore of Lake Michigan in Benzie and Leelanau Counties.
Sleeping Bear Dunes is
a
scenic
35 mile stretch of
Lake Michigan's coastline, plus North and South Manitou Islands
(The
Islands sit just off the mainland coast, appearing every bit as the cubs
in Native American legend who were lost to the deep waters while Mama
Bear on the mainland watched in desperation).
The area has
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beautiful natural features, including miles and miles of
unpopulated sand beaches, woods and forests, and awe-inspiring sand
dunes created by glaciers and other geological processes unfolding yet
today. The Lakeshore’s history is replete with maritime and lumbering
adventure as 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
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