GULF SHORES, Ala. (WALA) - A months-long, multimillion-dollar beach restoration project is wrapping up in Gulf Shores with the planting of hundreds of thousands of sea oats. All of this is to help the ...

Nonprofit Keep Manatee Beautiful is planning a historic planting of sea oats, which anchor sand dunes that protect shorelines from erosion, flooding and storm surge. Roughly 300 volunteers are signed ...

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (WALA) - Dune Doctors is teaming up with Orange Beach schools for another planting for protection event. And they did it with the help of 16 high school students who are known as ...

The unassuming plant, so critical to maintaining Florida’s shoreline, is in high demand after hurricanes Ian and Idalia. This is its life story. Jack Evans is a former reporter covering Pinellas ...

Kevin Brown is in his element, up on the Hopkins Street dune walkover in Neptune Beach, not far from where he coached football, baseball and soccer at Fletcher High School. It’s been another pretty ...

FORT LAUDERDALE — As part of the Football Unites Captains Program, 60 South Florida high school students joined the Miami Dolphins for a day at the beach to plant sea oats. "With all the hurricanes ...

OF THE RISK TO OUR BEACHES. THE WILDFIRE RISK EXTENDS ALL THE WAY FROM INLAND AREAS RIGHT ON OVER TO THE BEACH, SPECIFICALLY THE DUNES. IT COULD EVEN ORIGINATE ON THE COASTLINE IF A SPARK STARTS A ...

Have you ever visited somewhere else with a slightly different climate or soil type and noticed a different style of landscaping or a different collection of plants that filled those landscapes? If so ...

Northern sea oats reach 2-3 feet in height with a spread of 1-2.5 feet. It grows in full sun to part shade, preferring light shade, and is one of the more shade-tolerant of the ornamental grasses.

ARCADIA, Fla. — From eye level, the wisps of green emerging from sand dunes up and down Pinellas County’s barrier islands look sparse, stubby, almost tentative as they peek at the sun. Below the ...