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October 19, 1999
College Donates $10,000 to Town for Environmental ProtectionDonation Will Support Piping Plover Protection Program
Contact:
Jane Finalborgo
(516) 287 8313
Fax: (516) 283 4081Southampton College of Long Island University will donate $10,000 to the Town of Southampton for its Piping Plover and Least Tern management and protection program at a ceremony on Tuesday, October 19 at 3 p.m.
College Provost Tim Bishop will present the donation which is part of the proceeds from this summer's All For The Sea concert to benefit marine science scholarships.
Martin Shea, Chief Environmental Analyst for the town's Department of Land Management, members of the Town Board of Trustees, and other officials will attend the event which takes place at a protected site for Piping Plovers on a beach just south of the College's Marine Station. (See directions below). Perhaps the most famous visitor to Southampton beaches during the summer, Piping Plovers are a state endangered species protected by Federal, State and local law.
"We are very pleased to support the town in this important environmental effort to preserve an endangered marine species," said Tim Bishop "Several of our marine science students have worked as interns in the town's Piping plover protection program." The College's All For The Sea concert this summer, featuring Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, raised more than a million dollars for marine science scholarships.
The town and Southampton Village are also involved this week in a Piping Plover educational outreach program at the Southampton Elementary School that is funded by a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The program is being directed by Sean Kiernan, a marine science alumnus of the College who worked for the town this summer in the Piping Plover steward program. Kiernan is spending two hours each day this week with fourth graders teaching them about the importance of protecting this endangered species.
Directions to Press Conference: From Southampton Village take Montauk Highway to Little Neck Road. Make a left and go past the Marine Station. Go right on Middle Pond Road. Take the second left on Far Pond Road and proceed to the end. The protected site is on the beach to the left.