Rediscovering Delmarva’s Inland Dunes: A Lost Habitat Brought to Life

  • A garden with various green plants, a cactus with yellow flowers, a weathered piece of driftwood, and mulch ground cover.

    Explore a reimagined glacial ecosystem, where native plants, fire ecology, and education converge

  • Remnant reference habitat in Pocomoke State Forest

    Remnant reference habitat in Pocomoke State Forest

  • Lupine is a critical species to the inland dunes and host plant to the endangered frosted elfin butterfly

    Lupine is a critical species to the inland dunes and host plant to the endangered frosted elfin butterfly

  • Preparing the dune for planting day

    Preparing the dune for planting day

  • DBG volunteers planting the dunes

    DBG volunteers planting the dunes

  • Prickly pear after planting

    Prickly pear after planting

  • Prickly pear in bloom

    Prickly pear in bloom

  • Prickly pear with fruit

    Prickly pear with fruit

  • ransition zone between dune and meadow

    Transition zone between dune and meadow

  • Dune habitat with Vaccinium and Quercus falcata

    Dune habitat with Vaccinium and Quercus falcata

  • The native prickly pear thriving in the inland dunes

    The native prickly pear thriving in the inland dunes