Grooming with heavy equipment prevents natural plants and dune formation on many coasts. Research in Santa Monica showed sand can rise faster than water if allowed to do so.
Protecting our coasts from sea level rise is increasingly urgent, especially for densely populated coastal communities such as Southern California’s. Coastal flooding and beach erosion from rising seas and storms are far more than a threat; they’re already happening in many places in California and beyond. But new research suggests one relatively simple means of shoring up our beaches: leaving them alone.
And other than some occasional hand weeding in the initial years, the site progressed naturally on its own without irrigation or any use of heavy equipment. The native coastal foredune plant species we seeded the site with, such as red sand verbena and beach bur , are specialists at trapping and holding sand in place. As these plants grow, they act as living ecosystem engineers that trap small mounds of sand, grow on top of them, trap more sand and so forth.
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