BBC: Putting a halt to this meticulously destructive grooming was the first step for Tom Ford, president of local nonprofit The Bay Foundation, an organisation which has been fortifying the beach by restoring sand dunes.
“We were looking at what we could do to further enhance the coastline, and we knew we were facing increasing sea level rise, storms and flooding,” explains Ford. The foundation knew that if they could stop the beach grooming and bring back native communities of plants to the area, sand dunes would reappear, providing a natural buffer against erosion. (A similar successful project had already happened further south.)…