Beach Maintenance
The town of Carolina Beach, NC obtained a state permit to rake the beach twice a year outside of Sea Turtle nesting season. Photo: Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines.
At resorts, beaches are often carefully raked and cleaned (Gold Coast Australia, Los Angeles, CA, Ocean City, MD) and even sprayed – a process, which is probably as damaging to the beach fauna and flora as beach nourishment. There is a need for documentation and publicity about this process. Is there an environmentally sound way to clean a beach (like manual cleanup)?
Surfing in / Beach Maintenance
Battle Over Lagoon Cleanup Divides a Surfing Haven
Malibu, the national symbol of surfing, is renowned lately for something else: a court and civic battle that has pitted surfer against surfer, environmentalist against environmentalist and City Council member against City Council member.
Médano Blanco Coastal Dunes, Argentina
Narrow cordons of coastal dunes stretch for hundreds of kilometers along this part of Argentina’s coast. The Médano Blanco is not far from the arid and windy borderlands with Patagonia, one of the windiest places on Earth.
A Feast Interrupted
Every few days, in some places as often as twice a day, tractors roll along a hundred miles or so of sandy beaches in southern California, changing rich coastal habitats into barren plains of unstable sand.
