*Does the state of Michigan own too much land? Bridge posed a variant of that question last summer in its award-winning package “Land Wars.” Brad Garmon of the Michigan Environmental Council provides his answer: Nope. *Look out, more people are discovering the charms of visiting Michigan: “Visitation to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore grew nearly […]
Sleeping Bear Dunes
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$1 billion economic impact? That’s Pure Michigan.
Massachusetts resident Delia Marshall came to Michigan last summer for a family reunion at a beach house on the shores of Lake Michigan. A week later, she left as an ambassador for a state that claims to be home to “the perfect summer.” “We stayed in a house with a private beach and I just […]
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Green gunk visits Mich.’s ‘most beautiful place’
EMPIRE — Ron Long recently visited one of his favorite beaches at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, only to find it marred by dark green algae that clouded the water and piled up on the sand. “This is the worst I’ve ever seen this beach — and I’ve been coming here for 50 years. It’s […]