Long before John McPhee’s “The Pine Barrens” was published, New Jersey’s vast, dreamlike swath of sand and scrubby pines was seen as a wasteland by the unfamiliar, a place full of pirate ...

The New Jersey Pine Barrens is an area of around 1.1 million ... the pinelands provide a wonderful habitat for rare species of birds, animals, and carnivorous plants. The ghostly remains of ...

When I tell someone that the New Jersey Pine Barrens are among my favorite spots for a weekend getaway, they look at me like I just proposed vacationing on Jupiter. I suspect this incredulity ...

Much of the 12,000 acres destroyed last year in New Jersey were in the territory of the Pine Barrens, including in Wharton State Forest, where campsites were evacuated last month during a blaze ...

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 ...

Long before John McPhee’s The Pine Barrens was published, New Jersey’s vast, dreamlike swath of sand and scrubby pines was seen as a wasteland by the unfamiliar, a place full of pirate lore, monsters, ...