More than 100 volunteers hand-planted 20,000 stems of beach grass along an 800-foot stretch of Lobsterville Beach last week. By using this all-natural defense against erosion, the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe hopes to protect its homelands on Martha’s Vineyard from the impacts of climate change.
More than 100 volunteers hand-planted 20,000 stems of beach grass along an 800-foot stretch of Lobsterville Beach last week. By using this all-natural defense against erosion, the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe hopes to protect its homelands on Martha’s Vineyard from the impacts of climate change.
The beachgrass planting that took place on Lobsterville Beach this past Saturday was a grand success. Twenty thousand stems of beachgrass were planted to help slow the erosion of the dunes. Many hands make light work, and many hands were available, causing Bret Stearns, director of natural resources for the tribe, to quip, “If I […]
More than 100 volunteers gathered to help plant beach grass at Lobsterville Beach in Aquinnah on Saturday. The annual event, part of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)’s Lobsterville Restoration and Coastal Resiliency program, which was initially created in 2016, aims to stabilize the dunes along approximately 10,000 square feet of beach. Since the […]