Stewardship Sites
Our Back to the Bays Stewardship Sites are areas that we have established to serve as community supported, long-term receiving areas for shellfish seeding, spat-on-shell oyster reef deployments, and coastal and marine habitat restoration.
Learn More About Each Stewardship Site and How You Can Contribute:
Sponsorship Levels in Support of the Habitat + Shellfish Restoration Work at Stewardship Sites
We focus efforts on specific sites each year, and are continually evaluating the potential for expansion to additional sites. In order to grow our network of sites we must determine the suitability of the site to support the various restoration plantings we conduct, and must also identify a revenue stream that will fund efforts at these sites. We have worked with private donors, municipalities, corporations, and foundations to establish and maintain our Back to the Bays Stewardship sites, and continued support is essential to the continued restoration success at these sites.
If you would like to specifically support expansion of restoration work at one of our existing sites, or would like to explore the possibility of supporting the creation of a new stewardship site, please contact Kimberly Barbour at kp237@cornell.edu to request a Stewardship Site Sponsorship document.
Back to the Bays is an Initiative of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County, a registered 501(c)(3). Our EIN is 11-6081424 and contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. An official acknowledgement letter will be issued upon receiving your contribution. If you prefer to submit a contribution via check, please make out to Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County with Back to the Bays in the memo and send to: Back to the Bays c/o Kimberly Barbour 423 Griffing Ave, Riverhead NY 11901