Nonprofit Keep Manatee Beautiful is planning a historic planting of sea oats, which anchor sand dunes that protect shorelines from erosion, flooding and storm surge. Roughly 300 volunteers are signed ...

GULF SHORES, Ala. (WALA) - A months-long, multimillion-dollar beach restoration project is wrapping up in Gulf Shores with the planting of hundreds of thousands of sea oats. All of this is to help the ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – The city of St. Augustine Beach is taking new steps to fight beach erosion by planting sea oats. City officials said they will plant sea oats from 10th Street to 8th Street.

Rhizome is the word of the day. It refers to the lateral underground stem that holds sea oats onto fragile dunes. Sea oats have become a minor obsession for me because our fabulous “new” dune system ...

Volunteers and county staff recently installed dune fencing on three miles of coastline with local non-profit Trees on the Coast. The fencing helps expand the dunes and mitigates impacts that have ...

As hurricane season continues, with last year's catastrophic storm season top of mind for many locals, Keep Manatee Beautiful is looking for 300 volunteers to join its largest sea oat planting effort ...

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (WALA) - Dune Doctors is teaming up with Orange Beach schools for another planting for protection event. And they did it with the help of 16 high school students who are known as ...

TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. — The start of Hurricane Season is close to one month away and the City of Treasure Island is working to make sure the beach is protected. On Saturday morning, city staff and ...

BILOXI, MS (WLOX) -The battle against beach erosion took another step forward Friday as an army of students and volunteers dug in and planted more than 3,000 sea oats on the beach in Biloxi as part of ...