Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
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Along With Its New Park, Ocean Beach Gets a Dunescaping

Before it was a city, much of San Francisco was a dunescape. Nearly a third of it was covered in sand. Western winds swept the sand into heaps and piles—one 80-foot dune rested in the future Union Square; another sat blocks away from what would become the Salesforce Tower. Little plants with deep roots anchored […]

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