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Article: Walking "new" dunes on the Monterey Peninsula. (California)
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- April 1, 1990
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Walking "new" dunes on the Monterey Peninsula
Building a sand dune takes thousands of years if the wind alone has to do the work. Rebuilding one may take just five years when you have bulldozers and scientists on your side--and you can see the results of such a project at Asilomar State Beach, on the Monterey Peninsula just north of Carmel. At the 50 acres of rolling, 20-foot-tall dunes behind Asilomar State Beach and Asilomar Conference Center, years of uncontrolled foot traffic had wiped out native vegetation, exposing large patches of unstable, open dune. Without plant cover, dunes dropped 10 feet in height, and sand regularly drifted across adjacent Sunset Drive. ...