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Dave Card with a bike rack he built. Image from the NPS page on his work
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore keeps a landscape of historic farms and cabins, and much of the care they get comes from volunteers. Since 2013, Dave Card — a Navy veteran and retired civil engineer from the Lansing area — has worked on cultural preservation projects there with Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear (PHSB), the park's preservation partner.
Bringing the next generation
Usually twice a year, Card brings a group of young people he mentors through the Christian Services Brigade in the Lansing area. Together they have given 700 volunteer hours:
| Where | What |
|---|---|
| Boekeloo Cabin and Eitzen Farm | restored fences and handrails |
| Kraitz Cabin | laid the flooring and installed a French drain |
| Port Oneida Heritage Center | built bike racks, and storage racks for lumber |
| Olsen Barn and the PHSB gardens | spring cleaning |
| Treat, Basch and Miller farms, and across the park | among the first to clear non-native plants |
Trees in winter
Card also recruited friends from a professional tree company. Each winter they donate their work to prune and remove trees that threaten park buildings or are overgrowing the cultural landscape, while Card and PHSB's project coordinator — often in bitter cold — carry and stack the wood. One recent project cleared young trees at the Kropp Farm to make room for a barn workshop. The savings to the park are substantial.
Why he does it
PHSB's executive director, Susan Pocklington, describes Card as someone who clearly values the park's history, shares the group's newsletters and mission, and loves bringing people to the Port Oneida Heritage Center.
For Card, it's about citizenship: rights come with responsibilities, and responsibility means serving your community rather than relying on government to do everything. Working with PHSB, just down the road, also gives the teenagers he mentors a chance to learn new skills and discover the park and the human history of the area.
More: the #MyParkStory series at Sleeping Bear Dunes.
Sources
Based on "#MyParkStory Volunteer Dave Card," National Park Service, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, written with Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear; a work of the United States government in the public domain. Dave Card's and Susan Pocklington's words are summarized; rewritten in hubnx's own words.
В изданияхSleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Лицензия: CC0 1.0 (общественное достояние) · По материалам www.nps.gov
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