The Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore has decided to try again to create a new General Management Plan (GMP), according to
this article in the Enterprise.

A previous effort to create a plan was cut short in 2002 when Republican officials, spurred by local pressure groups, brought the process to a halt. The issue of treating more park land as "wilderness" was especially controversial to local groups concerned about preserving vehicular and other access to park lands.

The new process will take about three years and will allow ample opportunities for public input, according Park Superintendent Dusty Shultz.

The Park is a great resource for Leelanau County (and the rest of the world), and will behoove all of us to be involved in this process, and to make sure it is not driven by special interest groups with a narrow agenda.