He helped save the Pine Barrens in 1968. Now his help will never end.
Long before John McPhee’s The Pine Barrens was published, New Jersey’s vast, dreamlike swath of sand and scrubby pines was ...
Five pine barrens forests set to undergo controlled burns this spring to combat wildfires
Controlled or prescribed fires have been used on Long Island since the 1995 Sunrise Fire near Westhampton to improve habitats ...
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New Jersey's Most Mysterious Region Is A Wooded Beauty To Explore Abandoned Towns, Swim, And Hike
The Pine Barrens is also said to be the home of a ... chance to immerse themselves in this fabulous ecosystem, discovering cranberry bogs and blueberry fields, several species of orchids ...
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Why the South Jersey dry spell won't impact the price, supply of your cranberry sauce
It's surrounded by 3,000 acres "of cranberry bogs, blueberry fields, reservoirs, sugar sand roads, and Pine Barrens forests." Another family member, Elizabeth Coleman White, helped to cultivate ...
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Fire and the Suffolk pine barrens share a natural history
The brush fire in the pine barrens this weekend ignited in a part of Suffolk County with a history of fires and flare-ups — to some degree a natural part of the ecosystem but also exacerbated ...
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Gov. Hochul declares state of emergency as wildfires rage on Long Island’s South Shore
The governor announced shortly before 5:30 p.m. that she was “issuing a State of Emergency as Suffolk County fights brush fires in the Pine Barrens.” Southampton also declared a local state of ...
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Investigators seeking cause of massive Long Island Pine Barrens brush fires: Report
Massive brush fires continue to burn in Long Island’s Pine Barrens, officials investigating potential arson, ABC 7 New York reports. Officials are probing the possibility of arson in connection ...