beach grass

The dining room features an ocean of fresh flowers, antiques and a chandelier dripping with ornamental beach grasses.

“If the beach grass dies, it will destroy the dune.”

On nicer days, pedal the eight-plus-mile Discovery Trail past beach grass, dunes and Sitka spruces.

The logs are covered in mulch, on which crews planted more than 30,000 native plants, shrubs and trees: Nootka rose, snowberry, cottonwoods, Lyngbye’s sedge, beach grass.

The collaborative argues that the complex ecosystem in the dunes requires free-blowing sands to function, and that wildlife is threatened by the effects of invasive beach grass.