Pacific Grove Dune Restoration

Pacific Grove Dune Restoration

Dune Restoration on the Monterey Peninsula

When ownership of 60 acres of degraded dune habitat was transferred from the US Coast Guard to the City of Pacific Grove Golf Course, RANA performed a Biological Assessment and created a Dune Habitat Restoration Plan which outlined methods to restore and protect rare dune plant species like the state and federally endangered Menzies’ wallflower and Tideström’s lupine, and the federally threatened Monterey spineflower. RANA was successful in navigating the multilayered regulatory and compliance process through biological assessments, restoration and mitigation plans, a planting and site maintenance plan and exotic species control guidelines. Restoration of dune function and enhancement of the site has been realized through collecting seed, propagating, and replanting dune species, minimizing impacts to areas containing sensitive plant communities, eradication, and control of invasive nonnative plants, and monitoring the success of the ongoing restoration.

COMPLETED

2015

CLIENT

City of Pacific Grove

LOCATION

Pacific Grove, CA

TEAM

RANA The Cohabitat Co.

 
Environmental Planning &Daniel Luiken