Friends
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Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
Issue #1 - Fall 2005
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diverse and widely distributed organization bound together by one common
thread - a love for the natural treasure called the Apostle Islands. This diversity and distribution is a blessing with only one fault. Communication - the sharing of accomplishments, needs, goals and opportunities in a timely fashion - demands some form of the printed word. Welcome to Friends Newsletter Issue #1! Distribution of this first quarterly newsletter is being sent to all Friends Members both in email and snail mail versions. Future issues will be in email format for those of you for whom we have an address, and in hard copy for the few members without email. So if you have an email address, but only received the snail mail version, please update your membership file with a note to marlew2@charter.net. |
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| "Jewels on the Water Lake Superior's Apostle Islands" | ||||
For what must seem like forever, Board Members of the Friends have been striving to bring the first ever coffee table book about the Apostle Islands into existence. On Oct.1, the books arrived in Bayfield.
If you haven't bought your personal copy yet, (and
of course gift copies for all the really important people on your
shopping list) the photos by Layne Kennedy on the masthead and below,
and the text by Jeff Rennicke that follows are samples of why your
editor calls this beautiful book a "polished gem." |
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"This is a place that reveals its secrets slowly. Here, you collect memories in pieces, over a summer, over a string of summers, over a lifetime. The only way to come to know these islands is to return again and again, year after year, season after season, collecting images like falling leaves, like colorful pebbles on a beach, like postcards." "Jewels on the Water" is available at
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Celebrating Accomplishments |
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with a self applied pat on the back and a collective "we did good." The Friends mission is: To promote an appreciation for and preservation of the cultural and natural heritage and the natural environment of the Apostle Islands. Here are a few Friends accomplishments - every single one made possible by member contributions. 1. "Jewels on the Water" book publication. 2. Providing support for a Ranger at Meyers Beach. 3. Supporting the timely printing of "Around the Archipelago" Park Newsletter. 4. Support of all eight lectures at the Bayfield Visitor Center Guest Lecture Series. 5. Painting & maintenance at the historic Hadland Fish Camp, located at the north end of Rocky Island. 6 Funding for two students at Northland College's Superior in the Pathfinder program. 7. Support of the Wilderness Designation celebration at the Big Top. 8. Sponsor of Sept 2nd BTC production "Riding The Wind." In fact, The Friends did so many good things so
well, that the Apostle Islands Community Foundation awarded them a grant to fund
the coordination of park volunteers for the 2006 season. So where do Friends Members call home? Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Maryland, Colorado, Virginia, California, Kansas, Ohio, New York, Missouri, Florida and New Jersey. Coffee With Krumenaker Meet for conversation and coffee with Bob Krumenaker, Superintendent of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, and you'll come away saying to yourself "Now there is a guy who really appreciates what the Friends have been doing." And you'll also say, "We're going to need a lot more Members to make up the difference between what should be done in the Apostles and what an under funded National Park Service can afford to do without us." From increasing community involvement with the National Lakeshore, to supplementing NPS sponsored educational, recreational and resource activities, to raising funds to support Park projects, there are numerous opportunities to make a difference in the Apostle Islands. Ahead in the near future: The General Management Plan, which addresses a vision of the Park for the next 15 to 20 years, will have preliminary alternatives published by spring, and public meetings will be held. Google For Friends For a relatively small and new organization, the Friends have generated a considerable amount of news. Here are a few links.
The Daily Press - Ashland, Wisconsin
Searching For . . . Let's just say you know someone who loves the Apostle Islands, and you also know they are not a Friends member. A suggestion. Send them a link to this newsletter. The Apostle Islands need many, many more Friends. Here is another. Click on the link below. Fill out the form and tell us it is a gift from you to them. Write out your check. Mail it to us. |
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Friends News is edited by Lew Miller |
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