This photograph was taken near the Sleeping Bear Point Trail. In the original 1915 photograph, scientists from the University of Chicago study what appears to be a buried soil amid a sea of sand and an occasional blade of grass. By 2019, grasses, shrubs, and some trees have colonized and expanded over much of this area, except the trail itself.
The research team would like to thank the staff at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore for their assistance in recapturing this photograph.
LAT: 44.911859, LON: -86.039546
Photo Credit – 1915, Univ. of Chicago; 2019, Kevin McKeehan, Michigan State University.
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