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North Dunes monitoring: native cover meets target this year; tide‑stream lupine counts fall
Summary
Consultants reported Year‑9 monitoring at North Dunes showing native cover above the plan’s >50% success threshold and nonnative cover reduced to 9% after increased contractor effort, while the tide‑stream lupine census declined from 583 to 472 plants.
A Year‑9 monitoring report for the North Dunes Habitat Restoration Project found the site met its native cover goal and reduced nonnative cover after an intensive weed‑control effort, but counts for the endangered tide‑stream lupine declined from last year.
John Wonke, senior environmental scientist at Denise Duffy & Associates, told the commission the spring monitoring across 18 fixed transects measured native cover at slightly above last year’s level, meeting the restoration success criterion of greater than 50 percent. Nonnative cover dropped from 16 percent the previous year to 9 percent this year — below the project goal of less than 10 percent — a change he attributed to increased contractor control efforts and possibly to drier weather patterns.
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