Naturalists and curious visitors — loaded down with Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore literature ... held in place by clumps of marram grass and cottonwoods; the older, stabler ecosystems ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

On Tuesday, professor Christian Lacroix's third- and fourth-year biology and wildlife conservation students teamed up with Parks Canada to plant 2,000 plugs of marram grass. The plant's roots hold ...

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 ...

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 ...