The Massachusetts Department HELP SAVE OUR of Conservation and Recreation plum island point WHY DUNE and the City of Newburyport DUNES! are committed to reducing BEACH ACCESS RESTORATION? Your actions and support can go a community vulnerability to long way towards protecting this coastal hazards while maintaining important resource. beach access for residents and MAP Here are some ways YOU visitors alike. AND DUNE FACTSHEET can help make a difference:

Restoring dunes is a cost-effective, natural strategy that reduces community vulnerability to coastal hazards. RESPECT THE DUNE! Always stay off the dunes and use designated Questions? paths to access the beach. For more information contact: Unlike seawalls, rock revetments, or SPREAD THE WORD! Massachusetts Department of other “hard” shoreline stabilization Conservation and Recreation (DCR) Educate your friends and neighbors on the value structures, dunes dissipate wave energy 251 Causeway Street, Suite 900 rather than reflecting waves onto beaches of dunes and why it’s important to stay off them. Boston, MA 02114 or neighboring properties. 617-626-1250 JOIN THE EFFORT! [email protected] Participate in citizen science initiatives to track dune health, measure erosion, and plant new Renourishing and revegetating dunes native vegetation. with new sand and native vegetation is an excellent way to protect inland areas from OWN PROPERTY BY THE SHORE? storm damage and flooding. Scan the QR code below to visit MA CZM’s StormSmart Properties and find out what you can do to help protect your property from Map and brochure created by the National Wildlife erosion and storm damage. Federation with funding provided by the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management through their Coastal Community Resilience Grant Program.

MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PHOTO CREDITS: Cover photo - Bill Sargent; Dune restoration photos - Gregg Moore; CONSERVATION AND RECREATION Piping plover and Whimbrel photos - Alex Lamoreaux; Monarch butterfly photo - USFWS, In partnership with the CITY OF NEWBURYPORT Flickr Creative Commons; Fallen dune fence photo - Sandy Tilton; Plum Island boardwalk photo - Gail Frederick, Flickr Creative Commons; Crashing waves photo - Sandy Tilton. BEACH ACCESS MAP plum island point DANGEROUS DANGEROUS WATERS! OCEAN SWIM SWIM YOUR AT OWN RISK a treasure worth protecting DESIGNATEDWALKING PATHS PLEASE ACCESS BEACHTHE VIA sandy sun offers Conservation Concern. Dunes provide A . Some coastal a variety species, beaches NO FIRES NO of unique habitatfor nearly 50 benefits like as the their to federally From primary wildlife, small ON LEASH ON LEASH OTHERAT TIMES and nesting including mammals NO DOGS DOGS NO ON BEACH A state (APR 1 habitat threatened food, to birds . Species - camouflage, SEPT SEPT 15) and Piping reptiles, of Greater plover, and dune refuge rely vegetation on NO NO ALCOHOL A from dunes the and hot A A Designated Beach Access Trail Access Beach Designated A Beach Access Point Access Beach CARRY OUT ALL TRASH Property ofMassachusetts DCR Protected Public Beach Public Feet Boardwalk Parking Dunes 0 A 1 00 A shoreline erosion. shoreline to helpstrap sandand reduce which also thisvegetation, dune below of networkexists an incredible Beneath are the g stabilization Vegetation anchor dune walkingSimply to humandisturbance. is extremelyvegetation harsh coastal incrediblyWhile rassesyou roots extending up to to up roots 9 extending a fragile resource secret ingredient isplacein anchored by c FIRST OF LINE vegetation:the ritical roleinkeeping residents safe a tip can kill vegetationkill can that The dunesThe onPlum each clusterof grass dune’s surface.dune’s the dune in place. in dune the of of the plum island’s seeatop a dune environment, DEFENSE fromcoastal flooding. is critical critical formationis todune and , tolerant to iceberg. and across a the sensitive A ft dune the 0 - ft 5 I sland serve slanda serve - 10 is needed is switchgrass to