Letters

I am a resident and voter in Sagaponack and Southampton Town. Poxabogue Field provides many important ecological services. It serves as:

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

• A natural buffer protecting Poxabogue Pond, its wetlands, and our aquifer.

• An important ecosystem for ground-nesting birds, like the American woodcock (photographed in the field last month by Jane Gill), 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.

I believe the highest and best use in preserving the health and vitality of the greenbelt’s coastal plain pond ecosystem and to protect this grassland habitat would be for the property to remain a natural open space.

I ask that the field’s designated status be changed from agriculture to open space/greenbelt preservation.

Nancy Alderman

Sagaponack