Location: Gulf Shores, Alabama
Planting for Protection, Educational Initiative
For over five years, since 2021, Dune Doctors has partnered with Gulf State Park staff and Gulf Shores City Schools to host a student-led dune restoration initiative. Each year, approximately 200 students place recycled Christmas trees along the seaward toe of the dune to promote the capture of wind-driven sand. The students then plant roughly 3,000 native dune grass and other diverse species around the trees to help initiate the formation of a new coastal dune.