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The Calverton Ponds, located in the Long Island Pine Barrens, are examples of coastal plain ponds, and support one of the highest concentrations of rare and endangered species of plants and animals in New York State. These include thread-leaved sundews, tiger salamanders, and banded sunfish. The area is preserved as the 350-acre Denis and Catherine Krusos Ecological Research Area, which is cooperatively owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy and Suffolk County Parks.
The Long Island Pine Barrens "is a diverse mosaic of pitch pine woodlands, pitch pine-oak forests, coastal plain ponds, swamps, marshes, bogs and streams". - The Nature Conservancy |
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