Marram grass grows up to 3.5 feet tall, but beneath the surface it provides the foundation for Indiana's famous dunes. Its root pattern pushes the grass skyward. Burial in sand only serves to ...

Baldy, a dune inside Indiana Dunes National Park ... unmoored — the thousands of feet pounding it degraded the marram grass that stabilized it. Without the roots of vegetation to keep it ...

Julie Vasseur, program director with the Nature Conservancy of Canada on P.E.I., said there is a fair amount of traffic on the beach, and the marram grass needed some help. "It's important because ...

About 2,000 marram grass plants have been planted in Jersey sand dunes to help protect them The roots of marram grass stabilise the dunes by binding the sand together, helping to rebuild them The ...

Botanists say the plant competes with native marram grass, or dune grass -- one of ... Lyme grass is far more prevalent in the coastal dunes in Indiana and Wisconsin, the newspaper reported.

The Maharees Conservation Association is doing great work for the unique ecosystems of flowering plants, mosses, lichens bees, moths and ground-nesting birds Sand dune restoration: Volunteers with ...

and you catch a glimpse of the massive sand dunes that make up the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore ... It's a big pile of sand with not a blade of beach grass to speak of, just a couple of ...

Grass costing £55,000 is being grown to save sand dunes on a Tyneside beach. South Tyneside Council is having 268,000 plants propagated at a nursery in Norwich and transported 250 miles to ...

Volunteers have planted about 2,000 marram grass plants in sand dunes in Jersey to help protect them. The Government of Jersey's Environment Department said the grass would help stabilise the ...