Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore remains down to one superintendent, only now he’s also been assigned to oversee the River Raisin National Battlefield.
Scott Tucker, who is nine years on the job leading the Lakeshore, has been named the “acting superintendent” of the national battlefield. It’s the newest and latest place in Michigan to fall under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, having been established in 2009 on the outskirts of Monroe.
Until the retirement of Tom Ulrich in 2023, the Lakeshore — which in 2024 hosted nearly 1.7 million visitors — had been managed by a deputy superintendent and superintendent. After Ulrich stepped aside following two decades of service as the Lakeshore deputy superintendent, the NPS decided in 2024 and again this year not to fill the position.
