The dune grass, hero of Holland, is an astonishingly hardy plant, thriving in the most inhospitable of environments, Alas, it is incapable of surmounting the final crucial test o0f man. In the Netherlands, the vulnerability of dune grasses to trampling is so well understood, that dunes are denied to public access; only licensed naturalists are permitted to walk on them. Sedge and marram succumb to man and here then is the first lesson. If you would have dunes protect you, and the dunes are stabilized by grasses, and these cannot tolerate man, then survival and the public interest is well served by protecting the grasses. But in New Jersey they are totally unprotected. Indeed nowhere along our entire eastern seaboard are they even recognized as valuable!