In dire need of sand to replenish its eroding beaches, San Clemente is on the lookout for nearby offshore deposits to dredge. Coastal Frontiers Corp., a consultant hired last year to carry out a sand ...

There I was, staring up at a quarter-mile-high fold of sand that looked like it was the backdrop of a science fiction novel. It looked like CGI but it was real, and so far out in the desert that even ...