Great Lakes Dunes

On October 2, 2008, in Empire, Michigan, at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, the Postal Service issued 42–cent Nature of America: Great Lakes Dunes commemorative stamps in 10 designs.

The stamps and souvenir sheet were designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland.

The Great Lakes Dunes is the tenth stamp pane in the Nature of America’s educational series that features the beauty and complexity of major plant and animal communities in the United States. Previous issuances in the Nature of America series were:

Sonoran Desert (1999)
Pacific Coast Rain Forest (2000)
Great Plains Prairie (2001)
Longleaf Pine Forest (2002)
Arctic Tundra (2003)
Pacific Coral Reef (2004)
Northeast Deciduous Forest (2005)
Southern Florida Wetlands (2006)
Alpine Tundra (2007)