A Nationalized Lakeshore: The Creation and Administration of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: by Theodore J. Karamanski MENU Table of Contents Introduction Chapter One, "National Parks Are Where You Find Them:" The Origins of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Chapter Two, "We're Going For The Right Thing:" The Legislative Struggle to Create Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, 1971- 1977 A Nationalized Lakeshore: Chapter Three, The Creation and Administration of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Changes on the Land: Lakeshore - By Theodore J. Karamanski The Early Management of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park Service National Lakeshore, Department of the Interior 1977-1983 2000 Chapter Four Plans, Programs and Controversy: The Reassessment of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, 1977-1983 Chapter Five, "A Local and National Treasure:" Managing the Sleeping Bear Dunes Park, 1984- 1995 Conclusion, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore At Twenty-Five Appendix One, http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/slbe/index.htm[7/11/2012 10:12:17 AM] A Nationalized Lakeshore: The Creation and Administration of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: by Theodore J. Karamanski Budgetary Progress of Sleeping Bear Dunes N.L. Appendix Two, Selected Past and Present Employees of Sleeping Bear N.L. Appendix Three, Selected Visitation Statistics Appendix Four, Public Law 91-479 Chapter 1 Notes Chapter 2 Notes Chapter 3 Notes Chapter 4 Notes Chapter 5 Notes Conclusion Notes Figures Images Bibliography History | Links to the Past | National Park Service | Search | Contact Top http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/slbe/ http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/slbe/index.htm[7/11/2012 10:12:17 AM] A Nationalized Lakeshore: The Creation and Administration of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: by Theodore J. Karamanski A Nationalized Lakeshore: The Creation and Administration of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Table of Contents Cover Cover Page Introduction MENU Chapter One "National Parks Are Where You Find Them:" The Origins of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Table of Contents The First Tourists Introduction Lake Passage: The Settlement of the Sleeping Bear Area Chapter One, Tourism: A New Way in the Woods "National Parks Are A Sleeping Bear State Park Where You Find Them:" The Great Lakes Shoreline Survey The Origins of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Chapter Two "We're Going For The Right Thing:" Lakeshore The Legislative Struggle to Create Sleeping Bear Dunes Chapter Two, National Lakeshore, 1971-1977 "We're Going For The Right Thing:" The SOS The First Sleeping Bear Bill Legislative Struggle to The National Park Service Proposal: Sleeping Bear Create Sleeping Bear Dunes National Seashore Lakeshore, 1971- 1977 S.2153 Senator Hart's Sleeping Bear Bill New Approches, Old Problems Chapter Three, To Promote or to Preserve? Changes on the Land: The Early Management of From Economic Necessity to Environmental Amenities Sleeping Bear Dunes The Birth of a National Lakeshore National Lakeshore, 1977-1983 Chapter Three Changes on the Land: Chapter Four The Early Management of Sleeping Bear Dunes Plans, Programs and National Lakeshore, 1971-1977 Controversy: The Reassessment of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Starting From Scratch Lakeshore, 1977-1983 Land Acquisition A Sense of Place: The Beginning of Historic Site Chapter Five, Management "A Local and National Treasure:" Managing the Interpreting and Managing the Lakeshore Sleeping Bear Dunes The Platte River Controversy Park, 1984- 1995 Planning a Wilderness Master Plan Revisions Conclusion, Sleeping Bear Dunes Taking Charge National Lakeshore At The Advisory Commission Twenty-Five Martinek Retires http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/slbe/adhi_toc.htm[7/11/2012 10:12:21 AM] A Nationalized Lakeshore: The Creation and Administration of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: by Theodore J. Karamanski At Long Last: The Dedication of Sleeping Bear Dunes Appendix One, National Lakeshore Budgetary Progress of Sleeping Bear Dunes N.L. Chapter Four Plans, Programs, and Controversy: The Reassessment of Sleeping Bear Dunes Appendix Two, Selected Past and Present National Lakeshore, 1977-1983 Employees of Sleeping Bear N.L. The New Superintendent: Part Ranger, Part Academic The General Management Plan Process Appendix Three, Selected Visitation New Bosses, In Frankfort and in Washington, D.C. Statistics Land Acquisition Relegislating the Lakeshore Appendix Four, Public Law 91-479 Managing More With Less; Lakeshore Operations, 1979- 1983 Chapter 1 Notes A New Harbor: To Build or Not to Build? Conclusion Chapter 2 Notes Chapter 3 Notes Chapter Five "A Local and National Treasure:" Managing the Sleeping Bear Dunes Park, 1984-1995 Chapter 4 Notes Chapter 5 Notes Road Wars Fort Empire: A New Headquarters For Sleeping Bear Conclusion Notes Plovers, Swans, and Deer: Resource Management, 1984- Figures 1995 Historic Resource Management Images The Art of the Possible; Managing in an Era of Austerity Bibliography The Homestead Golf Course Saga Appendix One: Budgetary Progress of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Appendix Two: Selected Past and Present Personnel of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Appendix Three: Selected Visitation Statistics Appendix Four: Founding Legislation: Public Law 91-479 Notes Chapter 1 Notes Chapter 2 Notes Chapter 3 Notes http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/slbe/adhi_toc.htm[7/11/2012 10:12:21 AM] A Nationalized Lakeshore: The Creation and Administration of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: by Theodore J. Karamanski Chapter 4 Notes Chapter 5 Notes Conclusion Notes Figures Figures 1 - 4 Figures 5 - 8 Figures 9 - 11 Images Images 0-10 Images 11-20 Images 21-30 Images 31-40 Images 41-46 Bibliography NEXT> Chapter One "National Parks Are Where You Find Them:" The Origins of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore History | Links to the Past | National Park Service | Search | Contact Top Last Modified: January 10, 2001 10:00:00 am PST http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/slbe/ http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/slbe/adhi_toc.htm[7/11/2012 10:12:21 AM] A Nationalized Lakeshore: The Creation and Administration of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: by Theodore J. Karamanski A Nationalized Lakeshore: The Creation and Administration of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Introduction Introduction Cover Page MENU Table of Contents Introduction Chapter One, "National Parks Are Where You Find Them:" The Origins of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Located on the northwestern shore of Michigan's Lower Peninsula Lakeshore Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is one of the most beautiful Chapter Two, places in the American heartland. Named after a series of towering "We're Going For The coastal sand dunes, the national park features rugged four hundred-foot Right Thing:" The bluffs, splendid sugar sand Lake Michigan beaches, and cool, dark Legislative Struggle to forests. The lakeshore's mainland beaches and dunes are often crowded Create Sleeping Bear with summer vacationers, while two islands, North Manitou and South Dunes National Manitou, offer backpackers and day-trippers a more secluded natural Lakeshore, 1971- 1977 experience. The lakeshore's splendid natural setting is enhanced by an array of cultural resources. As befitting a park located astride one of Chapter Three, the busiest ship channels on the inland seas, the lakeshore boasts a Changes on the Land: The Early Management of wide variety of maritime cultural resources including shipwreck sites, a Sleeping Bear Dunes lakeshore ghost town, three Coast Guard Stations, a lighthouse, and an National Lakeshore, impressive collection of small boats and nautical artifacts. Behind the 1977-1983 beaches and dunes the lakeshore embraces a landscape marked by former farmsteads, offering the National Park Service the opportunity Chapter Four to interpret the vernacular expression of a vanishing American Plans, Programs and lifestyle. This rich mixture of historic and natural assets, together with Controversy: The the lakeshore's location amid rapidly developing resort communities, Reassessment of Sleeping Bear Dunes National makes Sleeping Bear Dunes an immensely complex park unit to Lakeshore, 1977-1983 administer. Chapter Five, Beginning in 1919 a small portion of what is now the national "A Local and National lakeshore was set aside as a state park. The idea of a national park in Treasure:" Managing the northwestern Michigan did not surface until the National Park Sleeping Bear Dunes Service's Great Lakes Shoreline Survey visited the area in 1958. Park, 1984- 1995 Between 1959 and 1970 there was a continuous and controversial effort in Congress to create a park unit around the Sleeping Bear Dune. The Conclusion, legislative leader of the Sleeping Bear park proposal was United States Sleeping Bear Dunes Senator Philip A. Hart. The senator's persistence and patience in the National Lakeshore At Twenty-Five end led to the creation of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on October 21, 1970. http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/slbe/adhi_intro.htm[7/11/2012 10:12:25 AM] A Nationalized Lakeshore: The Creation and Administration of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: by Theodore J. Karamanski Appendix One, Opposition to the creation of the lakeshore was very strong among Budgetary Progress of local summer homeowners. More than 1,400 tracts of private land had Sleeping Bear Dunes N.L. to be acquired to create the lakeshore. A heavy-handed,