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amanda
7/11/2002
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I remember family trips to these dunes when I was growing up. Each year we would challenge each other to reach the lake on the other side, but by the fourth or fifth dune, I was bribing my cousin with my lunch if he'd carry me back to the car. I hear that they are charging people now to climb there . . . is that true? Before we know it, they will have a Starbucks just past the first ascent.
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KYCatherine
7/11/2002
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After returning to work from a trip Up North...a sky like that is enough to make me quit and return to where I really want to be!
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bobbi
7/11/2002
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i remember my first trip to michigan. i fell in love with the dunes-the warren dunes i believe. i had never heard of the sleeping bear dunes. i will definetely be there my next trip to traverse. p. s. i am almost 50 will i need to get in shape???????????? lol lol
Editor's Note: bobbi, you should be able to sprint to the top.
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tribal member of penwood
7/11/2002
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Thanks Keith for all the hard work you all put into this wonderful report. I was just in Leland and already miss it deeply. Thanks for helping me stay reminded on my I work so hard to beable to return to "A little heaven on earth".
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Carter Neild
7/11/2002
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Gorgeous picture - can't wait for dunes climbing this summer!
"Beset" is perhaps a good synonym for delicate sensitivities, with the added bonus of a double-entendre?
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Sara from Maryland
7/11/2002
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I have an antique photo of myself and friends at the top
of the Dunes climb-- with one of the nuns from St.
Mary's School who, despite all those long skirts &
and her mid-age, made it easily to the top!
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Laura in Northport
7/11/2002
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My two kids and I climbed the dune earlier this summer, almost made it to the water. However, a bear attacked my daughter's big toe. And my son almost perished in the desert heat. We had to turn back. That is our story, and we're sticking to it :-P It was worth every minute of it. Next year we will make it to the big Lake, or so I say every year.
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The Mar
7/11/2002
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Nice pic of the dunes - Bobbi, if you haven't been to the Sleeping Bear, it will put Warren Dunes to shame. Be prepared! As for the bears and the "assault" on the hives, the dictionary defines it as: "a threat or attempt to inflict offensive physical contact or bodily harm on a person (as by lifting a fist in a threatening manner) that puts the person in immediate danger of or in apprehension of such harm or contact." Some synonyms are : battle, fight, war, clash, collide, encounter, engage; skirmish. Seeing as how the bees have defenders in their hives for just such encounters, I think "assault" is a perfectly good word to use. (BTW, aren't there more pressing things about which to write the editor of the local paper?)
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Goldilocks
7/11/2002
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I can "barely" contain myself....that bruin molested the hives!
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LTL
7/11/2002
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If I were a bee (or the owner of the hives) I would think 'assult' is very fitting and proper. If I were comparing to 'assult' on the WTC then it is a whole different scale, but wouldn't warrant a fuss to the editor.
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Penny Channer
7/11/2002
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How about invade or invaded....violated a little strong I think, then there is always "taste tested" by the best of bears.
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Betsy in Santa Fe
7/11/2002
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Personally, I like "bruins skirmish with local bee colony, sounds sporting.....
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JCatton
7/11/2002
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To those who love the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore need to contact the National Park Service and request a copy of Newsletter #4, Proposed General Management Plan to see all of the proposed restrictions to access in the lakeshore. The plan calls for eliminating 27 miles of access roads, managing 33,000 of the 72,00 acres as primitive or backcountry wilderness, eliminating the planting of salmon in the Platte River, restricting walking across the dunes to the lake,managing 13 miles of lakeshore beaches as ecological sensitive and restricting access to entry by permit, etc. You have until Labor Day to submit comments on the plan and express your opposition or support.
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The Mar
7/11/2002
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You can get a copy of the GMP for the Dunes online at http://planning.den.nps.gov/plans.cfm, scroll down for Sleeping Bear Dunes General Management Plan. They did a similar call for input on a GMP for Isle Royale NP and did a fairly good job of collating all the competing interests into a plan that everyone could live with. However, they can't consider opinions they don't know about, so if you feel strongly for or against some aspect of the plan, let the Park Service know (through the proper channels of course).
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JCatton
7/11/2002
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OPPPS. I forgot to mention one of the things they considered but rejected was the expansion of the park to include Leland's Fishtown. Worries me that they even considered that idea!!!!!!!
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Julie Rogers
7/11/2002
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I am now taking MY children to the dunes. It's an annual 'gotta'. I am of the opinion that the dunes are not nearly as steep as they were in the 70's. Will there be any incline in the next 20 or 30 years?
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Jim Pollock
7/11/2002
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I'd love to hear from the other 10 subscribers in Massachusetts...(Or at least 9 of them. Bill, I'm sure you're one of the 10. I would like to hear from you, but know that you're Leland-lovin' Bay Stater already. See you when I come back out at the end of the month)...
For the rest of you Bay Staters, please email sometime at jppollock100@hotmail.com.
Cheers,
JPP
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C. Telgard
7/11/2002
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Attack, assault,skirmish (Betsy, you should be the "Surprise" headline writer) are all appropriate..but in the spirit of utter silliness that must (I hope) have compelled the letter writer I suggest Beeseige or, from the bee point of view: Bearrorism.
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Amy Evans Rullo
7/12/2002
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I remenber going to the Dunes in the early evening hours after a long day canoeing the depths of the Crystal River. A whole bunch of us(Bolingers, Sichlers, Gits, Meads)would climb up the dunes and have a picnic dinner. It almost felt like being in a different world. Most summers we made the pilgrimage many times. The Dunes are a definite treasure of the Land of Delight.
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Susan Pandorf
7/12/2002
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I cast my vote for "bearrorism"! How delightful! Wish I'd thought of it. Good show!!!!!
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Bill T
7/12/2002
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Perhaps the bears were "meddling" with the hives.
Do you suppose some bee is writing in to their local paper complaining that "assault" is not a STRONG enough word?
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Ginny
7/12/2002
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I, too, remember climbing the dunes and still having a lot of breath left and not making the "rest" stops it takes now. Keep up the great pictures. My husband and I thoroughly enjoy them. Have given our kids the address and they also enjoy them also.
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dougiespam@yahoo.com
7/12/2002
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Here is my dramatization of the bear/bee situation:
Late yesterday, a local black bear carried out an assault on a local hive. Though the attack was relatively mild by ursine standards, the incident was deemed a honey-bee melee by an insect activist group that calls itself the “insect liberation front” or ILF. ILF representatives claim to be saddened by the recent “violence” and claim that it has bee-n a set back in the peace talks between the two groups after centuries of intense conflict. Representative of the Black Bear Council grumbled about the ILF's claims though their comments were bear-ly audible.
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The Mar
7/12/2002
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Since worker bees are essentially all clones, haveing come from a single female queen, you could call this "Episode 2: Attack on the Clones"
(with apologies to Speilberg)
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David Cordes
7/12/2002
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I will be at these very dunes in just over three weeks, on Sunday the 4th. After our family reunion, before getting back on the road to Chicago, we always make a stop and climb the dunes. The Sleeping Bear Dunes truly are the best!
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Kristen from St. Louis
7/12/2002
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This picture has me drooling on my keyboard. What I would do to be up in that paradise!! I am counting down until wednesday when I can come up to that gorgeous weather! We had 80's today, but it was raining. Yesterday it was in the 90's. The only thing that gets me through the school year, and the heat is the thought of coming up to Leland!!
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Dan Spraul
7/12/2002
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Beautiful picture. 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. They seem to call for our return.
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kathryn bishop omoto
7/12/2002
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Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear has the General Management Plan for Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore under review and will soon make its response known to the general public and to the lakeshore. Please stay tuned.
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Peter Anthony in Utah
7/16/2002
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I miss the Red Trucks that you rode on to tour the Dunes.
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