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Calendar No. 45
113TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 113-14
SLEEPING BEAR DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE
CONSERVATION AND RECREATION ACT
APRIL 22, 2013.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. WYDEN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 23]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 23) to designate as wilderness certain land and
inland water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
in the State of Michigan, and for other purposes, having considered
the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 23 is to designate approximately 32,557 acres
of land and inland water within Sleeping Bear Dunes National
Lakeshore in Michigan as wilderness.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore was established in
1970 and includes over 70,000 acres of forests, lakes, beaches, and
large sand dunes along the shores of Lake Michigan in north-
western Michigan. The lakeshore extends nearly 30 miles along the
eastern shore of Lake Michigan, and includes two large Lake
Michigan islands with an additional 35 miles of shoreline. The park
protects and preserves scenic and recreational resources, including
perched sand dunes, miles of beaches, inland lakes and streams,
wetlands, and an upland, beech-maple, northern hardwood forest.
In 1981, the park's general management plan recommended over
30,000 acres of the park as wilderness, and those lands have been
managed as wilderness since that time. Following completion of the
park's general management plan, the National Park Service pre-
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