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	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (U.S. National Park Service)
		Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Implements an Emergency Fire Ban.
		Sleeping Bear Dunes is located in northern lower Michigan.
		North Manitou Island, part of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, is located in the pristine waters of Lake Michigan about 8 miles off the Northwest part of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
	www.nps.gov /slbe (427 words)

	Legend of the Sleeping Bear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Longingly, a mother bear and two famished cubs walked the shore on the Wisconsin side, gazing wistfully across the great lake at Michigan, which in those days was the land of plenty (as it is today).
		This picture of the Sleeping Bear dune, as it appeared in the early 1700's, shows its striking resemblance to a sleeping bear.
		Sleeping Bear Dunes are a type of dune system called "perched dunes".
	www.geo.msu.edu /geo333/bearlegend.html (304 words)

	Sleeping Bear Dunes Weekend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The campsite is part of the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore and I suppose you can call it rustic which means no nice spiffy stuff you might find at a place like, ugh, a KOA.
		The dune grass has footholds of varying strength and it is easy to tell where the dune is winning as it shifts.
		The Sleeping Bear Dune view though was impressive and we want to go back to that and hike down to the beach at the bottom (400 some feet down on a steep dune slope) to enjoy the Lake there.
	www.wanderingknight.org /travels/sleeping_bear_dunes/sleeping_bear_dunes.html (1304 words)

	Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau ~ Sleeping Bear Dunes
		Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore was created by an act of Congress in 1970 and made part of the National Park Service.
		Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a living demonstration of the forces that shape our planet, from the distant past, to the present day.
		Drawn to the splendor of the Sleeping Bear Dunes
	www.mytraversecity.com /dunes (450 words)

	NPS: Nature & Science» Geology Resources Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Sleeping Bear Dune of Indian legend is a perched dune.
		Bedrock subcrop that underlies the area of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (SLBE) is shown on Milstein (1987) as the Devonian Traverse Group with a fringe of overlying Antrim Shale along the southeastern margin of the area.
		They favor a model in which dune building, whether in perched or lowland positions, occurs at high lake levels and interpret their dates from the length of the eastern shore of Lake Michigan to indicate an approximate 150-year cycle in dune building synchronous with the lake level record of Thompson and others (1997).
	www2.nature.nps.gov /geology/parks/slbe/index.htm (7632 words)

	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
		Sleeping Bear Dunes is a thin strip of lakeshore about 35 miles long at the northwest corner of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, near Traverse City.
		It's worth a trip: both for the dunes themselves -- which, being glacial till rather than beach sand, have a shape quite different from ordinary dunes -- and for the (fragile) beach/dune ecosystem, which reveals many interesting things to the patient observer.
		Below the deck the dune drops straight to the water at what appears to be the angle of repose of the sand (something like 45 degrees or more).
	www.astro.uiuc.edu /~pmricker/interests/outdoors/sleepbear.html (891 words)

	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore travel guide - Wikitravel
		Sleeping Bear Dunes [1] is a United States National Lakeshore located on Lake Michigan near Traverse City in Northern Michigan.
		Sleeping Bear Point Coast Guard Station and Maritime Museum (middle section of the park), a former U.S. Life-Saving Station has authentically dressed workers who explain what maritime life was like back in the 1800s.
		The dune at the center of the park near Sleeping Bear Point isn't an easy climb, but it's within the ability of anyone in decent physical condition, and worth the effort for the view.
	wikitravel.org /en/Sleeping_Bear_Dunes_National_Lakeshore (2480 words)

	Sleeping Bear Dunes, sacred site
		The dunes area of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is also thought to be a
		Sleeping Bear Dunes is listed as a sacred site in Backpacker magazine, Feb 1991 and in the book, Sacred Places: How the Living Earth Seeks Our Friendship, by James A. Swan.
		Swan says, “sacred sites are places in nature that exist and have the capacity to enable our minds to transcend time and space, plugging us into ourselves and the universe in a way which gives meaning, purpose and health to life”.
	www.duneswood.org /sacred.htm (213 words)

	GORP - Wide Awake on Lake Michigan - Four Hikes Along Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes
		The Lake Michigan coastal region is dune country, a showcase of 275,000 acres of freshwater sand dunes, a large percentage of which are found within the boundaries of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
		Located in a ravine between two forested dunes, the facility is an escape from the noise and bustle of the park's busy tourist season in midsummer; yet the campground still lies near the three main attractions of Sleeping Bear Dunes.
		Within a short walk of your tent are wind-blown dunes, panoramas of the rugged shoreline and the Manitou Islands, and isolated stretches of Lake Michigan beach.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/publishers/countryman/hik_mi.htm (745 words)

	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Hiking - Hikes
		Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore encompasses a 35 mile (60 KM) stretch of Lake Michigan's eastern coastline, as well as North and South Manitou Islands.
		The Dunes Trail is the most popular of all the...
		This loop is a short excursion and an easy one, but is meant to be combined with the other trails in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore area t...
	www.trails.com /activity.asp?area=10165 (469 words)

	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore - National Parks International Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a beautiful beach area in the northwest corner of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.
		One day the mother bear realised that the forests of Wisconsin were on fire and so she gathered her cubs and explained that they had to swim across the Lake to safety in Michigan.
		The ‘Mother Bear’ is the dune mountain on the lakeshore, her two cubs can be seen as North and South Manitou Islands in the...
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /national-parks-international/sleeping-bear-dunes-national-lakeshore (264 words)

	GORP - Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore - Michigan
		The dunes are a popular launching pad for hang gliders and stretch for seven of the thirty-four miles of national lakeshore.
		The Sleeping Bear Dunes are the world's largest perched dunes, so named because the dunes sit atop high, limestone bluffs.
		The dunes are slowly migrating eastward and inland, where forest remnants of bleached pine, white birch, and cedar swamps persist.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_ns/mi_sleep.htm (275 words)

	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a United States National Lakeshore located on the "little finger" of the lower peninsula of Michigan in Leelanau County and Benzie County.
		Impressed by the mother bear's determination and faith, the Great Spirit created two islands (North and South Manitou Island) to commemorate the cubs, and the winds buried the sleeping bear under the sands of the dunes where she waits to this day.
		The location of the "bear" is a patch of dark sand, which once covered the entire bluff top and was visible from the lake.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sleeping_Bear_Dunes_National_Lakeshore (368 words)

	BHL Research Topics: Sleeping Bear Dunes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The enormous sand dunes along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Leelanau and Benzie counties have long been considered one of Michigan's most remarkable natural features.
		The effort to have the dunes protected as part of a national shoreline was one of the major environmental controversies of the 1960s and 1970s.
		The issues involved in the creation of Sleeping Bear National Shoreline can be traced in the papers of politicians and environmental activists, local newspapers, government publications, and publications of conservation organizations.
	www.umich.edu /~bhl/bhl/topics/sbdunes.htm (360 words)

	A Nationalized Lakeshore: The Creation and Administration of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: by Theodore J. ...
		Rogers recognized that the Sleeping Bear Dunes had the grand scale that could attract visitors from around the Midwest, while Glen Lake offered protected water recreation, and the Day Forest Estates provided the vistas to appreciate each.
		The uniting of the dunes, backlands, and interior lakes into a single park plan made objective sense to a veteran recreation planner like Rogers, yet it laid the seed for the controversy in which the National Park Service was embroiled almost a generation later.
		Existing state lands in the area, which included most of the Sleeping Bear Dunes, were consolidated under state park administration and over the years small additions to the park project were made by gift and purchase using fish and game funds or modest appropriations.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/slbe/adhi_1d.htm (2440 words)

	Centre Daily Times \| 04/22/2006 \| Reflection from the Road: Sleeping Bear Dunes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Chippewa Indians have a story of a mother bear and her two cubs that had to flee the forests of Wisconsin to escape a raging fire.
		The mother bear was able to make it across the wide expanse, finally pulling herself up the cliffs to wait for her children.
		Despite the extended wanderings in the dunes, or perhaps because of, I found this region to be thoroughly enjoyable.
	www.centredaily.com /mld/centredaily/living/travel/14406247.htm (1805 words)

	Sleeping Bear Dunes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Enormous sand dunes meet the water along this stretch of coast, giving credit to the name Sleeping Bear Dunes.
		Although the public is permitted to descend the dune to the beach below, the return climb is quite exhausting.
		Sleeping Bear Point faces north and points to South Manitou Island, seen on the left horizon.
	www.msu.edu /~cresscas/michigan/sleepingbear.htm (183 words)

	Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The dunes at Sleeping Bear are known as perched dunes, for they stand atop the glacial deposits below.
		According to Chippewa legend, Sleeping Bear received its name from the misfortune of a mother bear and her two baby cubs.
		Since the Sleeping Bear area became a national park in 1977, it has become the scene for a variety of recreational events.
	www.geo.msu.edu /geo333/sleeping_bear.htm (676 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The outcome of this tale is the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes and National Park, located along 35 miles of the Lower Peninsula in western Michigan.
		A visit to the Sleeping Bear Dunes and National Forest is a trip that is fun for all age groups.
		Everyone enjoys the exercise of climbing the dunes; the education of seeing the geological results of the glacier period; and most of all experiencing the natural beauty that can be found in Michigan.
	www.epinions.com /trvl-review-3997-CE9750C-3925DD20-prod3 (962 words)

	Wildernet - Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
		Description - Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore was designated to protect the diverse landscape along Lake Michigan's shoreline and the two wilderness islands, North and South Manitou.
		Most folks visit this national park to view the beautiful dunes but quickly realize there is much more including a 1871 lighthouse, three former Life-Saving Service/Coast Guard Stations, an extensive rural historic farm district, Philip A. Hart Visitor Center in Empire, Michigan, and the Maritime Museum.
		We chose not to take that path as the we were having fun on the front dune which was close to our car and restrooms.
	www.wildernet.com /pages/area.cfm?areaID=MISLBE&CU_ID=1 (924 words)

	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
		The enabling legislation emphasized the landscape's "outstanding natural features forests, beaches, dune formations and ancient glacial phenomena"; but gave little attention to its cultural resources, even though there was a long history of human activity related to the area.
		Indeed, all but 27-acres of North Manitou were designated as wilderness, which meant that the island's cultural resources-including six properties deemed possibly eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places-would be allowed to deteriorate.
		Because of the information provided in the report, and through presentations made by the investigators, public organizations were formed ("Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear") or reactivated to develop measures that would lead to the protection of the resources.
	www.asla.org /meetings/awards/awds02/sleeping_bear_dunes.html (501 words)

	Your Hosts - Sleeping Bear Bed and Breakfast
		Susan and Van Wilson are the owners and innkeepers at Sleeping Bear Bed and Breakfast.
		From tried and true stand-bys, such as Sleeping Bear French Toast, to the more adventuresome dishes, ("How about Breakfast Burritos?") the food is wonderful.
		Sleeping Bear Bed and Breakfast, with its classic farmhouse, barn and beautiful four rolling acres will serve to feed his many ideas for years to come.
	www.sleepingbearbb.com /hosts.asp (305 words)

	Life Along the Manitou Passage / Sleeping Bear Point
		Sleeping Bear Point sits below the shoulder of the Sleeping Bear Dunes.
		By 1931, moving sand dunes and shoreline erosion forced the station to move to its current location near Glen Haven.
		Today, the Sleeping Bear Point Coast Guard Station is owned and operated by Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
	www.schoolship.org /maritime/sleeping-bear.html (209 words)

	The Leland Report - Leelanau County Michigan
		I am of the opinion that the dunes are not nearly as steep as they were in the 70's.
		The Dunes are a definite treasure of the Land of Delight.
		With the views, smells, winds and aura of the dunes it is no surprise that the Indians found them to be a highly spiritual place.
	www.lelandreport.com /index.asp?indate=7/11/2002 (1530 words)

	The Legend of Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes
		All of the animals, including the mother bear and her cubs, had to leave the forest.
		When the mother bear came to the shores of Michigan, she climbed to the highest point she could find, a large hill made of sand, and waited for the cubs.
		The mother bear, who soon grew tired, saw her two cubs in the lake and knew that the Great White Spirit had taken care of them.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_49_51.html (332 words)

	Sleeping Bear Dunes Area - MI
		Planned to stay overnight, but the 6 mile paddle out was so quick, and there were so many campers already on Government Island that we just circled the island and had lunch, returning to the car to drive to Sleeping Bear Dunes on the east coast of Lake Michigan.
		GPS directed us right to the Weather Station Campsite, and we were able to select the best site on the island (#10 on a high bluff overlooking the lake and Sleeping Bear Dunes).
		Further north are the 300 ft sand dune cliffs, with broad sandy beaches for lunch and rests.
	www.paddling.net /places/showReport.html?454 (552 words)

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