TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER

INTRODUCTION

I: IMAGES OF THE PICTURED ROCKS: SUBLIMITY AT "THE FAG END OF THE WORLD."

II: "THE NORTH WOODS' AND THE PICTURED ROCKS: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGH PRESERVATION

III: CREATION OF PICTURED ROCKS NATIONAL LAKESHORE

IV: A NEW PARK, A NEW VISION

V: MORE PLANS, MORE PROBLEMS: PICTURED ROCKS NATIONAL LAKESHORE, 1974-1981

VI: "HOPES ADVANCED, HOPES DASHED AND NEW HOPES": PICTURED ROCKS, 1981-1991

EPILOGUE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

APPENDIX

LIST OF FIGURES^*

Figure 1. Pictured Rocks Cliffs
Figure 2. East End of Miners Beach
Figure 3. Miners Castle
Figure 4. Walter Loope and Grand Sable Dunes Research Natural Area
Figure 5. Recreational diving at Pictured Rocks
Figure 6. Miners Castle Overlook platform
Figure 7. Snowmobilers at the Munising Falls Interpretive Center
Figure 8. Backpackers: Brian and Tammy Hoduski
Figure 9. Peregrine falcon release, 1989
Figure 10. Dedication of the Interagency visitor center in Munising, 1988
Figure 11. Miners Falls
Figure 12. H-58 main access road to the lakeshore
Figure 13. Deer feeding during Beaver Basin controversy
Figure 14. Grand Sable Light
Figure 15. Vern Kirkens rehabbing windows for Au Sable Light Station
Figure 16. Bill Mustatia, Twelvemile Beach campground

* All photographs from Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore photographic collection, Grand Marais Maritime Museum, Grand Marais, Michigan