Sentences with phrase «planting dune grass»
Today in Breezy Point residents commemorated the one year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy with a public ceremony and a volunteer effort at planting dune grass on a long sand dune that residents recently created.
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But a new study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology and led by University of Pennsylvania doctoral candidate Bianca Charbonneau finds that the invasive plant does have one advantage over its native counterpart, Ammophila breviligulata, or American beach grass: the invasive is better at preventing erosion of dunes during big storms.
Florida is restoring dunes and planting sea grass.
The young dunes behind the eastern beaches are colonised and stabilised by spinifex grass and other coastal plants adapted to harsh salt and wind conditions.
By the time I moved back to Massachusetts in the early 1990s after living away from here for over 2 decades, the dunes were being planted with grasses and scrub brush to control erosion.