A Coastal Attack the Army Couldn’t Stop: Fort Ord Dunes State Park

Fort Ord Dunes State Park. Soldiers once guarded this shoreline against sea-borne attack, but one force proved too powerful to stop. Coastal erosion, the wearing away of these bluffs and beaches by ocean waves, has been steadily moving the coastline inland here since sea levels began rising after the last ice age. Human activities, such as mining sand and constructing dams on the coastal rivers, and speed up erosion by preventing new sand from replenishing these beaches. . This historical marker was erected by California State Parks. It is Near Marina in Monterey County California