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Amsterdam Beach Preserve: New Trail System Takes Shape

Publication: The East Hampton Press & The Southampton Press
By Mike Bottini   Nov 21, 2011 9:29 AM
It’s not easy to get folks together for volunteer work on a weekend. So it took some cajoling and a couple of emails from Richard Poveromo, the head of the East Hampton Trail Preservation Society’s volunteer maintenance crew, to prompt some of us to meet him last Saturday morning to work on the new Amsterdam Preserve trail system. But by noon, when we had completed cutting the mile-long loop trail, all of us were very glad he had done so.

Amsterdam Beach is a 123-acre Montauk property running from Montauk Highway, just across the street from Theodore Roosevelt County Park, south to the ocean. In the summer of 2005, funds from the state, county and town, along with a $1 million federal grant secured by U.S. Representative Tim Bishop, were pooled... more

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