Cape Lookout’s Park Rangers planted 40,000 young plants of American Beach Grass at the Great Island Cabin Camp on South Core Banks in order to stabilize the dunes there, and a recent survey of the 20,000 square foot planting shows no damage from the storms that battered the area at Christmas.
A resource management staffer checked on them to see how they were doing following the storms and, to her relief, she found no impacts from the event.
Officials say most of the stalks are solidly rooted and some even have green shoots emerging.
Previous coverage: https://www.publicradioeast.org/2022-12-13/nps-rangers-plant-beach-grass-to-stabilize-dunes-at-cape-lookout-national-seashore