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Lawmakers push for part of Sleeping Bear Dunes to be designated wilderness

Grand Rapids Press
Feb 3 2010

The push is on to formally designate of 32,557 acres of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore as wilderness.

The designation request was made in bills introduced Tuesday in Congress.

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