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CC NY 3. Big Reed Pond. Acreage: 45. 



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>- Location: Suffolk County; Montauk Point Quadrangle; about 2.5 miles W of 



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Description: This pond, surrounded by oak-beech-hickory woods on hilly ter- 

 rain, is the eastern terminus of fresh water available to white-tailed deer. It is 

 fringed by emergent vegetation and has a large stand of cattails on the southwest 

 end. The shallow, weedy coves provide fine habitat for migrating and breeding 

 waterfowl. This pond is from 4 to 6 ft deep with a muddy bottom and supports a 

 sizable fish population (especially black bass) as well as frogs and turtles. Mus- 

 krats have been present on the marsh and may again be introduced to help con- 

 trol the cattails. An area of several hundred acres including this pond, the near- 

 by shore and dune region, and its drainage through Little Reed Pond are par- 

 ticularly suited to preservation as a National Landmark because of its proximity 

 to Montauk Point State Park and other federally owned land on the Point. 



Encroachments: The owner of the property is beginning to develop. Preliminary 

 roads have been bulldozed approximately one-half mile from the pond but there 

 is no indication of immediate plans for developing land closer to the pond. 



Ownership: Montauk Acreage, Inc., Frank Tuma, Plaza, Montauk 1 1954. 



Data source: Harold Knoch, Division of Fish and Game, Baymen's Building, 285 

 Main St., Sayville, N.Y. 11782. 



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