[PCA] NEWS: Resisted for Blocking the View, Dunes Prove They Blunt Storms
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Tue Dec 4 08:13:09 CST 2012
Not specifically about native plants, but points out the importance of
having sand dunes and their plant communities as buffers to weather.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/science/earth/after-hurricane-sandy-dunes-prove-they-blunt-storms.html?ref=science
Resisted for Blocking the View, Dunes Prove They Blunt Storms
New York TImes
By MIREYA NAVARRO and RACHEL NUWER
Published: December 3, 2012
LONG BEACH, N.Y. -- Surfers railed against the project because they said
it would interfere with the curl of the waves. Local businesses reliant on
beach tourism hated it, too. Who would flock to the historic Boardwalk,
they asked, if sand dunes were engineered to rise up and obscure the ocean
view?
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