A Decade of Dune Restoration at the Lanphere Dunes - Cal-IPC

A Decade of Dune Restoration
at the Lanphere Dunes
Andrea Pickart
Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Northern beachgrass stands 1985
1992 (before)
1994 (Phase 1)
Native Cover in Restored Area as a
Percent of Reference Area
120
100
% Cover
80
60
40
20
0
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
1992
2001
1996
2001
1996
2001
1995
2001
1999
2003
European beachgrass
Iceplant
Bush lupine
Annual grasses
THANKS TO:
Patti Clifford, Kyle Wear, Linda Miller,
Friends of the Dunes, California
Conservation Corps, California Department
of Forestry & Fire Protection, The Nature
Conservancy, National Fish & Wildlife
Foundation, California State Coastal
Conservancy, and many others.