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Two weeks later.

Photo by Jim Wilson
Just two weeks later, the sea oats are already growing. The payback from this project will keep coming, for years! It is described best in a letter from the County Parks Director, as shown below.


This passage from a letter written by Elizabeth Warren, the Parks Director of the Pinellas County Parks Department, to Friends of Fort De Soto, describes it well:

...sea oats are a vital dune plant, which create beach dunes by collecting blowing sands. As a result, cover is created for many living organisms. They also provide food for many of the migrant birds passing through on their way to the Caribbean and beyond in the fall.
  
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