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 Naturalist, Pam Lea leads visitors on nature walk along Empire Bluff Trail, 1986. Ivan D. Miller, fourth Superintendent of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, presents an award to Management Assistant and former Chief Ranger Ray Kimpel, 1993. The Dune Climb remains a popular visitor use site, 1989. The Lake Michigan overlook platform, Pierce Stocking Drive, 1989. The end of the trail, Empire Bluff, 1989.. Allen Edmunds, "father" of the Great Lakes National Parks. NEXT> Bibliography
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