Nate Kinbacher, manager of The Bridgehampton, hacks away at invasive Brazilian pepper plants
along the dunes in Delray Beach. His friend Jason Davis assists.
The berries of a Brazilian pepper plant.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Deborah
Kelly Martin, an environmentalist with Palm Beach County Environmental Resources Management,
digs for a temperature-monitoring device buried more than two feet underground.
ERM intern Lory Gort downloads data from a monitor for later transfer into ER
By Cheryl Blackerby
New sand has been pumped on Boca Raton’s south and north beaches, and next year it will be the city’s central beach’s turn to be renourished.
Although the central beach didn’t lose as much sand to Hurricane Sandy as the nort
Stretching from the Intracoastal Waterway to the Atlantic, Ocean Strand is the last
undeveloped real estate of its kind left in Boca Raton.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Cheryl Blackerby
The Ocean Strand, a spectacular swath of green real estat
By Cheryl Blackerby
Officials in Boca Raton and Delray Beach were surprised and elated when they were notified by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in early May that they will receive long-awaited restoration money for beaches damaged by Hurricane
By Betty Wells
Proposals to allow local governments to ban smoking on beaches — one from a Boca Raton state representative — are making their way through the Florida Legislature.
State Rep. Bill Hager introduced a bill in the Florida House on Ja
By Tim O’Meilia
A proposed inlet-to-inlet approach to beach restoration and management will cost small coastal towns $4,000 to $19,000 a year with no promise that a beach protection project would be approved.
The pilot project proposed by s
By Tim O’Meilia
Officials of south county coastal towns fear that signing on to a regional beach management plan now in the works would cost their taxpayers money without guaranteeing any new sand on eroding beaches.
Several environmental g
Most Palm Beach County Beach Parks
Still Closed to Swimming
With the exception of Boca-South Inlet, all Palm Beach County ocean beaches remain closed to swimmers due to high surf and greater amounts of debris in water and deposited on shore. Cre
Most Palm Beach County Beach Parks Still Closed to Swimming
With the exception of Boca-South Inlet, all Palm Beach County ocean beaches remain closed to swimmers due to wind gusts, high surf and debris in the water. PBC Ocean Rescue personnel will co
Palm Beach County Closes All
Beach Parks to Swimming
All Palm Beach County operated beaches have been closed to swimming due to large surf, big shore break, 50 mph gusts and a great deal of debris in the water. Other beaches controlled by municip
