Hampton Bays Students Team Up For Environmental Preservation

HAMPTON BAYS, NY — Hampton Bays High School students teamed up recently to restore the environment, one eelgrass seed at a time.

The students worked to preserve the South Shore Estuary while gaining hands-on environmental restoration experience on March 24, the district said.

As part of the effort, the students helped Save Environmental founder Robert Vasiluth glue hundreds of eelgrass seeds onto hard clams. The clams will be deployed by Save Environmental into the Great South Bay, where they will bury themselves and sow the seeds, the district said.

The seeding effort helps to restore the "rapidly decreasing eelgrass meadows," that provide shelter for a variety of invertebrates. Last fall, Hampton Bays High School students attached 8,000 seeds to 100 clams, the district said.