{"id":1839,"date":"2024-10-28T13:40:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T13:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenerlands.nekomedia.nl\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2024-11-21T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T10:37:03","slug":"sand-dune-stabilisation-dune-thatching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenerlands.nekomedia.nl\/?p=1839","title":{"rendered":"Dune Thatching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Covering exposed dune faces &#8211; or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">blowouts<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; with waste cuttings from forestry or other low-cost materials is a technique called dune thatching. It is used to stabilize sand, reduce trampling, and protect vegetation. When locally sourced, thatching materials are inexpensive, and the process requires no machinery or skilled labor. This method is typically combined with dune grass planting to further enhance dune stability.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Properly applied thatch can aid dune recovery and provide resistance to erosion, although it cannot fully protect areas where waves frequently cause damage. The thatch slows surface wind speeds, encouraging sand to settle and accumulate. The effectiveness of this approach depends on the presence of blown sand, frequency of wave impact, presence of vegetation, and level of maintenance. Planting dune grasses after thatching can further improve dune recovery and stability over time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this intervention we distinguish two types dune thatching:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Dune thatching with old (Christmas) trees: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">creating a natural barrier by digging in old (christmas trees) in a line parallel to the shoreline. This barrier promotes the entrapment of sand and in combination with dune grass planting this can stabilize dunes and promote formation of new dunes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Dune thatching with millet stalk palisades:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Creating physical sand barriers from dried plant palisades can be arranged in various ways depending on the level of sand dune destabilization. In heavily encroached areas, millet stalk palisades arranged in square grids can act as considerable wind catchment zones and prerequisite for revegetation. After two years, these palisades tend to fall apart and decompose and restored vegetation takes over the dune fixation function.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covering exposed dune faces &#8211; or blowouts &#8211; with waste cuttings from forestry or other low-cost materials is a technique called dune thatching. It is used to stabilize sand, reduce trampling, and protect vegetation. When locally sourced, thatching materials are inexpensive, and the process requires no machinery or skilled labor. This method is typically combined &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greenerlands.nekomedia.nl\/?p=1839\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dune Thatching&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,40,60,51,52,48,50,10,47,27,54,55,57,32,34,33,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aridity-arid","category-aridity-dry-subhumid","category-aridity-humid","category-aridity-semi-arid","category-cost-high","category-cost-medium","category-goal-more-vegetation","category-goal-prevent-erosion","category-interventions","category-landuse-coastal","category-landuse-grazing-and-rangeland","category-maintenance-low","category-maintenance-medium","category-mechanization-no","category-slope-flat","category-slope-gentle","category-slope-mild","category-stones-no"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenerlands.nekomedia.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenerlands.nekomedia.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenerlands.nekomedia.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenerlands.nekomedia.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenerlands.nekomedia.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/greenerlands.nekomedia.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/greenerlands.nekomedia.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenerlands.nekomedia.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenerlands.nekomedia.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenerlands.nekomedia.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}