Marram grass planted to preserve beach's sand dunes

The Nature Conservancy of Canada and a group of volunteers planted 2,000 marram grass plants in the St. Peter's harbour area of P.E.I. on the weekend.

Julie Vasseur, program director with the Nature Conservancy of Canada on P.E.I., said there is a fair amount of traffic on the beach, and the marram grass needed some help.

"It's important because it's a plant that actually holds together the dunes, and the roots of the plants actually keep it together," said Vasseur.

"During storm events or during high winds and that kind of thing, the plant actually prevents the dunes, the sand dunes, from blowing away."

The volunteer group was able to get all the plants into the dunes in a few hours on Saturday.