ACTION ALERT!

Once again, the Long Pond Greenbelt needs your help!

Dear Long Pond Greenbelt Friends,

In 2023, many of you signed a petition asking the Town Board to save Poxabogue Field as open space, yet the field remains designated for agricultural use. Please help prevent Poxabogue Field between Sagg Road and Poxabogue Pond from being fenced and plowed up! Poxabogue Field, as it continues its evolution into a natural grassland ecosystem, provides many critical ecological services. It acts as:

• a wildlife sanctuary and if farmed, as projected, would be fenced and plowed, obliterating the wildlife that has come to live there.

• a vital buffer protecting Poxabogue Pond, its wetlands, and our aquifer.

• an essential ecosystem for ground-nesting birds, salamanders and turtles, grasshoppers and beetles, butterflies and moths.

• a shelter for foxes, rabbits, deer, field mice, raccoons, chipmunks, and more.

• an open, natural field vista.

• a buffer to preserve the health and vitality of the Greenbelt’s coastal plain pond ecosystem

• a reminder of why we love this area.

Please send a letter to Supervisor Moore and Councilpersons Michael Iasilli, Cyndi McNamara, Bill Pell, and Rick Martel to support changing the field’s designated status from agriculture to open space/greenbelt preservation:

mmoore@southamptontownny,gov

miasilli@southamptontownny.gov

cmcnamara@southamptontownny.gov

billpell@southamptontownny.gov

rmartel@southamptontownny.gov

cc:jfenlon@southamptontownny.gov

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