Enabling Legislation
Indianhead Point NPS photo by Brenda St. Martin An Act to establish in the State of Michigan the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, and for other purposes. October 15, 1966 Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is America's first National Lakeshore. Three other national lakeshores were authorized in subsequent years. On the same day, President Lyndon B. Johnson also signed into law another piece of landmark legislation -- the National Historic Preservation Act. On October 6, 1972, ceremonies in Munising marked the establishment of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. To symbolically link the park's two gateway communities of Munising and Grand Marais, water and sand was poured from two glass containers into a third. Establishment of a National Park follows the acquisition of acreage within the park boundary. 
Grand Marais Coast Guard Station NPS photo by Ed Lasich Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 November 12, 1996 Section 460a-14 (page 14): Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Boundary Adjustment. Added former U.S. Coast Guard properties in Grand Marais, Michigan, to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. 
Alger County Road H-58 near Grand Marais NPS photo An Act to Establish the Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site, and for other purposes. November 12, 1998 Section 202 (page 4). Provisions for Roads in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Removed "scenic shoreline drive" and inserted "including appropriate improvements to Alger County Road H-58." Also added sentence prohibiting construction of scenic shoreline drive. 
Munising Front Range Light and Auxiliary Station NPS photo Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 November 25, 2002 Section 437 (pages 67-68): Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Boundary Revision. Added the Munising Front and Rear Range Lights and auxiliary operations station to the boundary of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. 
Beaver Basin Wilderness NPS photo by Gregg Bruff Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009 March 30, 2009 Sections 1651-1654 (page 1042-1044) establish the Beaver Basin Wilderness within Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. This wilderness includes approximately 11,740 acres within the current boundary of the National Lakeshore. More ... |
Did You Know?
Several species of plants in the Buttercup Family are aquatic, growing underwater in lakes and ponds. A few are even amphibious, meaning that a single plant lives partly on sand along a shoreline and partly submerged. Such plants have runners, like a strawberry plant, and grow roots along the runners. The submerged leaves appear quite different from the ones growing in air.