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Dear Conservationist:
A few minutes of your time may make the difference!

A 1,000 acre wilderness, Grand Mere, in Berrien County is scheduled
to have its dunes removed, its lakes dredged or filled according to plan,
and Jater the entire tract is to be commercialized and industrialized.

Statewide response supporting House Bill # 3938 (Mat theeussen)
to establish Grand Mere as a State recreation-education-wildlife sanctuary
area can help save Grand Mere from the bulldozer.

Please write a card or letter addressed to the House of Representa-
tives, Lansing, Michigan to:

1. Your own State Representative

2. Rep. Joseph Snyder, Chairman
Conservation and Recreation Committee
House of Representatives

and to as many of the following members of the Conservation and Recreation
Committee as possible:

Rep. W. Scott Ensign Rep. Leonard S, Walton
Rep. Warren N. Goemaere Rep. Thomas J. Anderson
Rep. William Fitzgerald Rep. James Constantini
Rep. Eugene R. Cater Rep. Sanford Charron
Rep. Robert Slingerland Rep. Clayton T. Morrison
Rep. Nelson G. Tisdale Rep. Blair G. Woodman

Sample letters are included to assist you in composing your own.
Your letters do count. Please help keep Michigan beautiful!

Sincerely,

GRAND MERE ASSOCIATION

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Rep. Mattheeussen will send to anyone who writes,a list of the members
serving on the House Ways and Means, and Senate Appropriation Committees.
H.B. #3938 must receive approval from these two committees, after leaving
the Conservation Committee.

 

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Box 140
Stevensville, Michigan

 

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100 Main Street
Anytown, U.S.A.
- 1966

The Honorable Russell Helman, Chairman
Ways & Means Sub-Committee

House of Representatives

Lansing, Michigan

Dear Sir:

Urge your support of House Bill 3938 (Mattheeu-
ssen) requesting an appropriation to acquire Grand
Mere (Stevensville, Berrien County) as a state rec-
reation-education-wildlife sanctuary area.

This beautiful, geologically significant area
has been listed on Michigan Conservation Department
files as a prime scenic-recreation site since 1938,
and has been recommended for public acquisition by
that department and the National Park Service.

Very truly yours,

John Doe

 

 

 

SIGNIFICANT QUOTE:

If we are not careful we shall leave our children a’ legacy
of billion dollar roads leading to nowhere, except to other
congested areas like that they left behind. We are build-
ing ourselves an asphalt treadmill and allowing the green
areas of our nation to disappear.

- General Omar Bradley

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100 Main Street
Anytown, U.S.A.
- 1966
The Honorable John Smith
House of Representatives
Lansing, Michigan

Dear Sir:

The short-sightedness of the proposed plans
to industrialize and sand mine the 1,000 acre
Grand Mere wilderness at Stevensville (Lincoln
Township, Berrien County) is cause for concern.

This beautiful, geologically significant
area has been listed on Michigan Conservation
Department files as a prime scenic~recreation
site since 1938, and has been recommended for
public acquisition by the National Park Ser-
vice,

| therefore urge your support of House Bill
# 3938 (Mattheeussen) establishing Grand

Mere as a State recreation-education-wildlife
sanctuary area,

Very truly yours,

James Doe

 

 

 

- 1966
Dear Sir:

Urge your support of House Bill # 3938
(Mattheeussen) establishing Grand Mere (Berrien
County) as a State recreation-education-wildlife
sanctuary area,

Saving of such prime scenic areas for public
enjoyment and education of present and future
generations is urgently needed.

Very truly yours,
James Doe

100 Mainstreet
Anytown, U.S.A.

 

 

GRAND MERE ASSOCIATION BOX 140

SIGNIFICANT QUOTES:

We share with your association
concern re possible loss this im-
portant scenic and recreation re-
source, Recreation and scenic
values of Grand Mere Lake Michigan
Dunes have been recognized for many
years, Urgent need to preserve such
outstanding scenic resources in
your highly populated region is
well illustrated in present effort
to preserve Indiana Dunes to
south of Grand Mere.....
- Stewart Udall
Secretary of the Interior

The Grand Mere area is at the
crossroads - of relatively short
term benefits reaped by exploita-~
tion - or long term benefits from
leaving it as a natural spot. You
are fortunate in having such an
area in this community. Relatively
few would benefit from exploitation
while many could visit the area
making it into one of the best na-
ture attractions in Michigan.
- Dr. H. Lewis Batts, Jr.
Director
Kalamazoo Nature Center

| personally consider the Grand
Mere area worthy of preservation
as a nature reserve for the les-

sons it illustrates in both glacial
and shoreline geology and in ecology.
The area as a whole still serves as

a valuable outdoor laboratory for
classes in geology, botany, zoology,
and other field sciences, It is a
relatively wild area, and one which
combines the great contrast of
swamps and dunes in a delightful
and interesting manner. Its pre-
servation is much to be desired,
- Dr. Charles Olmsted
University of Chicago

STEVENSVILLE, MICHIGAN