Santa Monica's Natural Dune Restoration Project Celebrates 4 Years

To improve the biodiversity and resilience of Santa Monica’s beaches, and to address potential impacts of sea level rise, the City of Santa Monica partnered with The Bay Foundation to pilot a Natural Dune Beach Restoration Project in 2016 near Annenberg Community Beach House in the North Beach area. The project has brought back a rare coastal habitat to the Los Angeles region.  Now celebrating its four-year anniversary, native vegetation continues to blossom, and dunes continue to form and provide resilience to sea level rise and beach erosion.  Additionally, the beach project has provided new habitat for wildlife such as the federally threatened and locally beloved Western Snowy Plover...