Over the past eight years, the Collaborative has implemented over two dozen projects valued at approximately $1.75 million with substantial long-term direct and indirect benefits to the Guadalupe Nipomo Dunes Complex.  In doing so, the Collaborative has employed a set of metrics and strategies which build upon each other to utilize a continual feedback loop fostering adaptive management for project planning and implementation.

Invasive Species Removal and Monitoring:
The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County is working with the Dunes Collaborative to do invasive species removal and monitoring in many different parts of the Dunes Complex, including the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife Refuge, Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area, ConocoPhillips Santa Maria Facility, and other parts of the dunes.

Restoration Task Force Coordination:
The Land Conservancy is working with the Dunes Collaborative to coordinate the Restoration Task Force. This project coordinates a committee of science professionals to strategize and provide guidance over the restoration efforts being made in the dunes through Dunes Collaborative funding.

Interpretive Trailer Project
The Center for Natural Lands Management (CNLM) is working with the Dunes Collaborative to provide an interpretive trailer in the dunes. This trailer was unveiled at an open house event hosted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Dunes Center at the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife Refuge in April. It is currently being exhibited at Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve parking area at the west end of West Main Street (Highway 166). CNLM manages this park for the County of Santa Barbara. If you visit this trailer you will learn about birds in the dunes, especially the federally threatened western snowy plover.

Dunes Collaborative Administration
The Dunes Center works with the Dunes Collaborative to provide a formal administrator of the Dunes Collaborative Endowment projects. The Dunes Center provides over site, coordination, and resources.

Research Library Accessibility and Maintenance Project
The Dunes Center works with the Dunes Collaborative to provide an information repository in our Olivier Fourie Research Library. The main goals of this project are to provide an updated and easily usable search engine for our collection online and to provide digital access to public Dunes Collaborative documents via the internet.