Cover Page 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 Chapter Three, Changes on the Land: The Early Management of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, 1977-1983 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, 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		A Nationalized Lakeshore: The Creation and Administration of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Images Images E. Egenvieve Gillette, founder of the Michigan Parks Association and tireless supporter of the proposed National Lakesore. Julius Martinek, first Superintendent of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Chief Naturalist Charles Parkinson instructs fifth graders at a winter camp, 1986. Dedication ceremonies for the Glen Lake visitor center, December 1976. Thousands of gulls take flight at South Manitou Island's Gull Point colony. Donald R. Brown, second Superintendent of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The redesigned Pierce Stocking Drive, 1989. Former Air Force Base at Empire, adapted for use as a maintenance facility, c. 1987. Chaos at the mouth of the Platte Rivier prior to National Park Service administration. Dedication of the new park, October 22, 1977. NEXT> More Images
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