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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
Chapter 4 Notes

Chapter 4 Notes



[1] Record-Eagle (Traverse City), October 17, 1973.

[2]Bill Herd, Oral History Interview, August 13, 1998; Record-Eagle (Traverse City), October 19, 1977.

[3] Peter LaValley, Oral History Interview, August 14, 1998; John Dougherty, Oral History Interview, August 14, 1998.

[4] Raymond Kimpel, Oral History Interview, March 8, 1999.

[5] Record-Eagle (Traverse City), June 20, 1977, October 19, 1977; National Park Service, Midwest Regional Office, Task Directive, General Management Plan, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, November 22, 1977, GNP File, SLBD Records.

[6] Record-Eagle (Traverse City), November 3, 1977; Leelanau Enterprise-Tribune, November 10, 17, 1977.

[7] National Park Service, “Secretary Hickel Hails President’s Action on New Parks,” Press release, November 1, 1970, Division of Legislative Coordination and Support, General Correspondence, SLBD Records.

[8] Record-Eagle (Traverse City), February 28, 1978; National Park Service, Master Plan: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, (Philadephia: Northeast Regional Office, 1970), p.28.

[9] Detroit News, August 13, 1978.

[10] David Hales, Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks to Assistant Secretary for Policy, Budget and Administration, January 20, 1978, Washington Office Correspondence File, SLBD Records.

[11] Leelanau Enterprise-Tribune, April 6, 1978, July 6, 1978; Record-Eagle (Traverse City), February 28, 1978.

[12] Record-Eagle (Traverse City), February 14, 18, 1978, March 4, 1978; Leelanau Enterprise-Tribune, February 16, 23, 1978.

[13] Record-Eagle (Traverse City), June 28, 1978, December 19, 1978.

[14] Robert Herbst, Assistant Secretary of the Interior to Senator Robert P. Griffin, November 23, 1978, General Management Plan File, SLBD Records; Stocking, Letters from the Leelanau, 105.

[15] Record-Eagle (Traverse City), July 18, 1978.

[16] Samuel P. Hays, Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 104-8.

[17] Benzie County-Record-Patriot, July 12, 1978; Leelanau Enterprise-Tribune, July 27, 1978; Daniel J. Tobin, Jr., Acting Director of the National Park Service to Mary Anne Williams, April 21, 1978, GNP File, SLBD Records.

[18] Record-Eagle (Traverse City), August 7, 16, 1978; Leelanau Enterprise-Tribune, July 27, 1978; Ann Arbor News, July 25, 1978; Superintendent’s Annual Report, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, 1978, SLBD Records.

[19] Ann Arbor News, July 26, 1978; Leelanau Enterprise-Tribune, August 3, 1978.

[20] Leelanau Enterprise-Tribune, September 14, 1978.

[21] Denver Service Center, Planning Alternatives Workbook: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore/Michigan (Denver: National Park Service, 1978), n.p.

[22] Grand Rapids Press, November 19, 1978.

[23] Benzie County Record-Patriot, November 29, 1978.

[24] Public Involvement Summary For Planning Alternatives Workbook, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore/Michigan, n.d., General Management Plan File, SLBD Records.

[25] Kathleen Stocking, Personal Communication, July  22, 1998; Record-Eagle (Traverse City) November 21, 1978.

[26] National Park Service, Draft General Management Plan, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore/Michigan, (Denver: Denver Service Center, 1979).

[27] Northwoods Call, August 22, 1979.

[28] Leelanau Enterprise-Tribune, August 16, 1979; Chicago Tribune, December 23, 1979; Planning Alternative For General Management Plan, August 15, 1979, Minutes of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission, August 17, 1979, SLBD Records.

[29] Labon Vandenhoof quoted in, Stocking, Letters from the Leelanau, p.101;Citizens Council to James L. Dunning, Record-Eagle (Traverse City), December 18, 1979.

[30] Record-Eagle (Traverse City), November 29, 1980.

[31] Bill Herd, Oral History Interview, August 13, 1998; Arthur Huey quoted in, Stocking, Letters from the Leelanau, 106.

[32] Peter LaValley, Oral History Interview, August 13, 1998.

[33] Minutes of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission, November 21, 1980, SLBD Records.

[34] Ibid; James West Davidson, William E. Gienapp, Christine Leigh Heyeman, Mark H. Lytle, and Michael Be. Stoff, Nation of Nations: A Narrative History of the American Republic (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998), 1256-7, 1274-5.

[35] Hays, Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 494.

[36] Minutes of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission, November 21, 1980.

[37] Record-Eagle (Traverse City),  May 14, 16, 29, 1981; Leelanau Enterprise-Tribune, May 28, 1981; Detroit Free Press, May 24, 1981

[38] Ibid; Flint Journal, June 24, 1981.

[39] Ibid; Ron Cockrell, A Signature of Time and Eternity: The Administrative History of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, 304-9.

[40] Detroit Free Press, May 24, 1981.

[41] Albert V. Whitham, Regional Solicitor, Rocky Mountain Region to Assistant Solicitor, Parks and Recreation, February 2, 1982; Russell Dickenson, Director, National Park Service to Ric Davidge, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, March 10, 1982, “Stocklen” 46-103 File, SLBD Records.

[42] Grand Rapids Press, January 12, 1982.

[43] Donald R. Brown to Regional Director, May 31, 1979, Stocklen 46-103 File, SLBD Records; Randall R. Pope, Acting Regional Director, Midwest Region to Congressman Guy Vander Jagt, August 14, 1980, Stocklen 46-103 File, SLBD Records.

[44] Certificate Prohibiting Condemnation, December 17, 1971, Stocklen 46-103 File, SLBD Records; Henry D. Schmidt, Director, Northeast Regional Office to Tom Stocklen, March 23, 1971, Stocklen 46-103 File, SLBD Records; Julius Martinek, Personal Communication, April 6, 1999.

[45] Kathleen Stocking, “Michigan’s Dunes & the Sands of Bureaucracy,” Enquirer Magazine (Cincinnati) August 12, 1979; Randall R. Pope, Acting Regional Director to Congressman Guy Vander Jagt, August 14, 1980; Superintendent Donald R. Brown to Thomas M. Stocklen, March 10, 1980, Stocklen 46-103 File, SLBD Records.

[46] Ibid.

[47] Ibid; Richard Peterson, Oral History Interview, April 5, 1999.

[48] Leelanau Enterprise and Tribune, April 27, 1978, April12, 1979.

[49] Leelanau Enterprise and Tribune, April 12, 1979, September 23, 1982.

[50] Ibid; Leelanau Enterprise and Tribune, February 28, 1985, May 1, 1986.

[51] James Dunning, Director, Midwest Region to Chief, Office of Legislation, November 14, 1980, Washington Office Correspondence, 1982-present, SLBD Records; “Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: 3,000 acres in Question,”Michigan Audubon (May/June, 1982), 30, 3, 6-7.

[52] Grand Rapids Press, October 11, 1981.

[53] Superintendent’s Report, Sleeping bear Dunes National Lakeshore, 1982, SLBD Records; Detroit Free Press, September 23, 1982; Record-Eagle (Traverse City), October 4, 1982.

[54] Benzie County Weekly Express/Press Box, October 7, 1982; Record-Eagle (Traverse City), August 22, 1983.

[55] Leelanau Enterprise and Tribune, August 4, 1983; Record-Eagle (Traverse City), August 4, 1983.

[56] Leelanau Enterprise-Tribune, December 31, 1987.

[57] Record-Eagle (Traverse City), May 7, 1979.

[58] Leelanau Enterprise and Tribune, January 8, 1981; Benzie Ad-Visor, April 4, 1983.

[59] Robert Doherty, Disputed Waters: Native American and the Great Lakes Fishery (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1990), 122-5; Record-Eagle (Traverse City), August 17, 1979; Benzie County Record-Patriot, October 3, 1979.

[60] Minutes of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission, June 18, 1982, SLBD Records; Leelanau Enterprise-Tribune, August 19, 1982.

[61] Record-Eagle (Traverse City), September 4, 1979.

[62] Record Eagle (Traverse City), September 19, 1980.

[63] Minutes of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission, May 8, 1981, SLBD Records; Leelanau Enterprise-Tribune, May 14, 1981.

[64] Record-Eagle (Traverse City), June 6, 1981; Leelanau Enterprise-Tribune, June 28, 1984.

[65] National Park Service, Environmental Assessment for a Docking Facility, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (Denver: Denver Service Center, 1984).

[66] Minutes of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission, September 14, 1984; Record-Eagle (Traverse City), September 3, 1984; Detroit Free Press, September 30, 1984.

[67] Leelanau Enterprise-Tribune, September 27, 1984.

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