We got a slightly uncomfortable feeling in our gut a few weeks ago while driving from Mackinaw City to Glen Sheppard’s former home near Charlevoix.
As we passed through Petoskey and saw all the relatively new development along U.S. 31 south of town, we recalled Shep’s many efforts to protect the Lake Michigan shoreline from such landscape-gulping activities.
Yet, there it was, despite numerous angry news stories and pointed editorials. As usual, the money interests and pressures of modern civilization seem to have won out.
Shep had successes, of course, and we know we must keep fighting the good fight—as he did with his North Woods Call—but from time-to-time it can be a bit discouraging just the same.
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