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Florida FFA chapter
is ‘Saving the Dunes 9
BUNNELL, Fla. Members of s i ow the blowing sand, says FFA
a Future Fanners of America advisor Jim Galvin,
chapter in a community near Galvin says consistent high
Daytona Beach, Fla., have winds and hurricanes plague the
discovered a way to stop sand beaches during fall and winter
erosion that threatened Flagler months, causing water levels to
Beach and could have destroyed a riseand waves to crash against the
nearby highway. _ dunes.. As the waterfront inches
Some 90 FFA members are closer, erosion ban become severe
planting tough, salt-resistant enough to threaten a nearby state
grasses with long, fibrous root highway, he says,
systems acroM 18 miles of beach. Heavy winds blow much of the
When available, the group lays sand away, further complicating
down discarded Christmas trees to the problem.
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Members of the Future Farmers of America
chapter in Bunnell, Fla. work to save the sand
dunes of a popular seaside area near Daytona
Beach. The FFA members hand-plant and care
for tough salt-resistant grasses and use
discarded Christmas trees to check the beach
erosion. The effort is part of the FFA Chapter's
Building Our American Communities project.
Last summer, the Bunnell FFA
chapter in Flagler Beach began a
three-year plan to “Save the
Dunes.”
Beginning with 3,000 salt
tolerant plants, FFA members
treated die beach much as a
backyard ghrden, carefully
watering plaints to ensure their
survival.
Last winter, with the help of the
500 citizens of Flagler Beach, they
collected discarded Christmas
trees and lined them at dune sites.
Explains Galvin, “We placed the
trees in the most eroded dune
areas, laying them down on their
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sides in gulleys caused by erosion
and partially covering them with
sand to hold them in place.
“Hie blowing sand caught in the
limbs of the trees, and naturally
started piling up. Within two
weeks, the trees disappeared
under the reconstructed sand
dunes.”
With 2.5 miles of the most
popular part of the beach restored,
Galvin says his chapter has ac
complished what couldn’t be done
before:
“People tried a lot of other
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