Sea-level rise is threatening San Francisco’s shores. Vegetating the sand dunes is part of the city’s answer.
Tag: dunes
Stewardship
Learning to Love the Presidio’s Ancient Dune Ecosystem
Ecologists hope that by reviving a rare dune ecosystem, the public will come to appreciate it as much as the forest.
Summer Issue 2012
Happy Plants on New Presidio Dunes
Recent dune restoration at the southwestern edge of the Presidio has worked wonders for native plants.
The Bay
Decision Time at Lawson’s Landing
For nearly five decades, the campground at Lawson’s Landing has existed in a sort of legal limbo, never acquiring the necessary permits to make camping legitimate. Now, after a half-century of unauthorized expansion, the campground finally looks set to resolve its long-standing rift with the law. The California Coastal Commission meets July 13 in San Rafael to decide the campground’s future.
Spring Issue 2008
Marking Time on the Dunes
A walk at Lawson’s Landing is a step back into simpler times, when families returned to the same spot every summer, and nobody worried too much about building permits and planning boards. The Lawson family originally bought land at the … Read more
Spring Issue 2008
Shifting Sands
At the mouth of Tomales Bay, sand dunes and seasonal wetlands coexist uneasily with California’s largest coastal campground. The dunes at Lawson’s Landing, home to rare butterflies and plants like the dune tansy, are among the few left of a once-common coastal habitat that could be restored and maintained as a healthy, functioning ecosystem. But can that be accomplished without driving out the family-run camping operation at the dunes that, since 1957, has been an affordable summer getaway for thousands of visitors?
Spring Issue 2002
Undercover San Francisco
Have you ever wondered what some familiar spots in San Francisco looked like 300 years ago? Environmental artist Mark Brest van Kempen did, so he went back in time and took some pictures.
