Students from Gulf Shores City Schools did their part to protect the Gulf Coast's beaches when they participated in Dune Doctors' Planting for Protection (P4P) on Feb. 22 and 23. Through a partnership between Gulf Shores City Schools, Dune Doctors and Gulf State Park Naturalists, students helped to install approximately 4,000 native dune-building plants during the event.
Day one saw 39 high school students and seventh grade students head to the beach to help strategically place recycled Christmas trees along the dunes. Students then received a lesson from Frederique Beroset, MBA & MS Biology, CEO of Dune Doctors, Kelly Reetz, Natural Resource Planner, Gulf State Park, and Cory Powell, Park Naturalist, Gulf State Park.
The second day saw the entire fifth grade class from Gulf Shores Elementary head to the beach in two waves, where they were taught by the 39 mentors who received lessons the previous day on how to plant the native plants.
Read about the full event in our upcoming edition of Beachin'.