In addition to the Great Lakes team, Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes, a volunteer-led nonprofit, helps protect habitats at the national lakeshore. You can donate to their Piping Plover protection ...

Sleeping Bear Dunes features immense and magnificent sand dunes, as well as beaches, forests and inland lakes along a 35-mile strip of the southeastern shore of Lake Michigan. Off the coast, the park ...

A national park’s wildlife, allure, and purpose are challenged by a green mess. EMPIRE, Michigan — In 1970 the United States Congress authorized land purchases to establish Sleeping Bear Dunes ...