NOTE: The stakeholders at Whitefish Point hold federal land patents in trust for the public. If the stakeholders fail in their stewardship for the public, the land reverts back to the public. GLSHS is the only stakeholder who claims their federal land patent gives them private ownership. 

NOTE: In an attempt to claim that the Whitefish Point Light Station property that they hold was not subject local zoning, GLSHS attorney Spurr ( GLSHS Board of Director President in 2007) presented the Eastern Upper Peninsula Planning Commission a legal opinion in 2002 that, “The supremacy clause of the constitution invalidates all state laws or local ordinances that conflict with an act of Congress.” He presented this claim in spite of the September 30, 1996 Congressional Record that clarified that development of the Whitefish Point Light Station land was not exempt from local, state, and federal law.