Port Oneida Historic Landscape Management Plan / Environmental Assessment, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Duwe M and McEnaney M. 2011. Port Oneida Historic Landscape Management Plan / Environmental Assessment, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Cultural Landscape Management Plans. NPS Midwest Regional Office. Midwest Regional Office
The Port Oneida Rural Historic District (Port Oneida) is one of the most complete early 20th century agricultural landscapes in the Upper Midwest and in the National Park System. The landscape is part of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, located in the northwest portion of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula on the east shore of Lake Michigan. This Landscape Management Plan and Environmental Assessment for the cultural landscape, prepared in accordance with applicable policies and regulations, analyzes the impacts of the identified landscape management treatment alternatives on the environment and presents a reccommendation for treatment. The National Park Service (NPS) proposes to implement landscape management treatments to preserve significant historic landscape characteristics of Port Oneida within the natural environment setting of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The Port Oneida Historic Landscape Management Plan/Environmental Assessment report proposes desired future resource conditions for the Port Oneida landscape and an array of historic landscape management treatments. Implementation of these historic landscape management treatments would result in meeting the desired future resource conditions for Port Oneida. Port Oneida is a 3,400-acre rural historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, with a period of significance of 1870-1945. It is a historic vernacular landscape, meaning that it has evolved through use by ordinary people over time. Through the social or cultural attitudes and practices of an individual, family or community, the landscape reflects the physical, biological, and cultural qualities of everyday lives. Following the decline of agricultural activity in the District, physical and visual connections between landscape features, agricultural buildings, and community landmarks have diminished, and the number and diversity of historic plant materials have decreased. The Plan is needed to prevent further loss of historic integrity through the development and implementation of an historic landscape management plan. The Preferred Alternative presents an active program of managing vegetation to re-establish the historic boundary and addressing natural resource concerns such as wetland protection, invasive plant management, and soil conservation. Field maintenance is another major focus, essential for retaining spatial patterns across the landscape.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Duwe, Michael; McEnaney, Marla
- Date of Issue
- 2011-08
- Publisher
- NPS Midwest Regional Office
- Units
- MWR , SLBE
- Keywords
- Agriculture, Council on Environmental Quality, desired future conditions, German Heritage, Historic Field Boundary, Historic Vernacular Landscape, Interpretive Landscape, Lake Michigan, Landscape Rehabilitation, Leelanau County, Logging Industry, Michigan, National Environmental Policy Act, NPS Director's Order 12: 2001 Handbook for Environmental Impact Analysis, Orchard, Pyramid Point, Rural Historic District, Scenic Heritage Route, Subsistence Agriculture, trails and roads, Treatment Alternatives