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The revival of the beach in twentieth-century Los Angeles
In the 1920s, Los Angeles officials built miles of sandy beaches to attract tourists to their city. A century later, ecologists try to bring wildlife back to those barren beaches.
Putting a halt to this meticulously destructive grooming was the first step for Tom Ford, president of local nonprofit The Bay Foundation, an organisation which has been fortifying the beach by restoring sand dunes. In March 2016, Ford and his team observed that something else had returned in addition to the dunes: the federally threatened western snowy plover – a species that had not been recorded in the Los Angeles region for almost 70 years. "Sand dunes play an important role in coastal erosion because they serve as a barrier to wave run-up and overtopping," says Timu Gallien, a civil and environmental engineering associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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