For the past six years, the Pinelands Preservation Alliance has joined with Raritan Valley Community College to help protect critical dune habitat along New Jersey’s coast. With funding from New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the project partners have worked toward their goal of proactively improving shoreline community resilience by implementing “compromise management” techniques along the upper beach.

These techniques involve “establishing plant protection zones at the foot of the dune where no beach raking or driving…