ASBPA American Shore and Beach Preservation Association

As we prepare for our 100th anniversary in 2026, our mission has never been more crucial to the vitality of our beaches and shores. ??? Starting in January 2025, we will kick off the “ASBPA Countdown to 100 Years of Coastal Resilience” fundraising campaign! Learn more at https://lnkd.in/ghP9aQKT What you can do now: ?? Like and share this post with your network to spread the word ?? Follow ASBPA on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn ?? Tag someone in the comments who should follow along and get involved with ASBPA. More supporters mean more resources for our vital work in preserving, protecting, and enhancing America’s beaches and shores. ?? Visit asbpa.org to learn more about ASBPA and how our fundraising campaign will further efforts in coastal resilience. (??: Best Restored Beach 2024: Illinois Beach State Park Shoreline Stabilization, Illinois) #ASBPA #CoastalResilience #FutureOfOurCoasts #CountdownTo100YearsOfASBPA #MarkYourCalendar #SpreadTheWord

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We need your help to get the word out about the “ASBPA Countdown to 100 Years of Coastal Resilience” fundraising campaign beginning in January 2025. ????? Find out more about the campaign at https://lnkd.in/ghP9aQKT How You Can Prepare: ?? Follow ASBPA on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter. ?? Spread the word through your own posts or by sharing one of ours. ?? Consider your contribution: Your support helps us achieve our shared goals for coastal resilience. ?? Invite others to join: More supporters mean more resources. ?? Stay tuned for the official kick-off announcement in January! #ASBPA #BeachPreservation #CoastalResilience #FutureOfOurCoasts #CountdownTo100YearsOfASBPA #MarkYourCalendar #SpreadTheWord

Mark Your Calendar: The “ASBPA Countdown to 100 Years of Coastal Resilience” fundraising campaign kicks off in January 2025! ?? It’s a pivotal step in our mission to preserve, protect, and enhance America’s beaches and shores, and we need your help to make it a success. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/ghP9aQKT ??: ?????????? & ??????????, October 1942 #ASBPA #CoastalResilience #HealthyCoastlines #FutureOfOurCoasts #CountdownTo100YearsOfASBPA #HistoricPhotos #1942 #MarkYourCalendar

We are jetting (in our minds) to the PNW to celebrate the Seattle, WA Lowman Beach Park Shoreline Restoration 2024 Best Restored Shores Award. The Lowman Beach Park Shoreline Restoration is a standout example of urban shoreline restoration and serves as a blueprint for similar projects in urban areas constrained by existing infrastructure and private properties. The project aimed to enhance both the park and the shoreline in a sustainable manner, achieving multiple objectives including improving park access, enhancing ecological process, expanding nearshore habitat, and enhancing adaptive capacity in the face of rising sea levels. Another key aspect that makes it unique is the daylighting and creating a natural bank for over 100 feet of creek that was previously buried culvert, and allowing for fresh water to flow across the shoreface. This not only restores the natural hydrological process but also offers the public a unique opportunity to experience the dynamic interactions between fluvial and coastal systems for the first time in nearly 90 years! Congratulations to the Environmental Science Associates Team!

Today we travel from the gulf coast to the east coast. The Fort Smallwood Park Shoreline Enhancement Project in Pasadena, Maryland, a 2024 Best Restored Shores award, utilizes an array of shoreline enhancement techniques that were appropriately suited to the site conditions and project goals. Project goals such as increased resiliency, recreation and environmental uplift are often a challenge to balance.? Maximizing the benefits of one project feature will often restrict achieving another. This project achieved all project goals by implementing the appropriate technique (living shoreline, revetment, beach nourishment) where site conditions and park use were viable. The Fort Smallwood Park Shoreline Enhancement project embodies the notion that many different objectives, even those that are often conflicting, can be implemented through holistic planning, thorough and expert design, careful construction and continuous coordination. This project was featured on the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of ASBPA webinar by Anna Johnson of BayLand Consultants & Designers, Inc. just last week. Congratulations to the Fort Smallwood Park Shoreline Enhancement Project team! #asbpa #bestrestoredshores #coastalresilience #naturebasedsolutions

We proudly recognize the Dollar Bay Marsh Restoration project, a 2024 Best Restored Shores award recipient. The Dollar Bay Marsh Restoration fully embodies a successful habitat restoration project from beginning to end. The Galveston Bay Foundation and their project partners recognized significant funding was going to become available to the Texas coast from RESTORE, GOMESA, and other sources. As a result, the GBF began using partnerships to start the design and permitting of several projects in the Galveston Bay watershed. The Dollar Bay project was one of the first projects implemented with GOMESA funds by the Texas General Land office. Since implementation, the site has become nearly fully vegetated and serves as a nursery for juvenile fish, crabs, and other fauna.?The nursery then supports a number of other species and has revitalized the ecosystem in this part of the bay. Congratulations Galveston Bay Foundation! #asbpa #bestrestoredshores #coastalresilience #naturebasedsolutions