Parks Canada says it’s seeing encouraging signs of dune regrowth in Prince Edward Island National Park — and some of the credit goes to beachgoers who stay off them.
How the dunes at Brackley Beach looked earlier in July of this year, above, and how they looked on Sept. 26, 2022, two days after post-tropical storm Fiona. Parks Canada says it's seeing encouraging signs of dune regrowth in Prince Edward Island National Park — and some of the credit goes to beachgoers who stay off them.
"Their rhizomes, their roots, they all start to kind of hold, to stand together. I think of them as like a spider web or a net of some sort," she said. The dunes still have a way to go before they get back to how they looked in October 2021, pictured here.
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