Long before John McPhee’s The Pine Barrens was published, New Jersey’s vast, dreamlike swath of sand and scrubby pines was ...

Controlled fires could start in the coming days in five state forests in the Long Island pine barrens from Rocky Point to Westhampton, state environmental officials said. During a burn season that ...

Quite the opposite, ecologists argue: Long Island’s pine barrens have burned too little in recent years. If wildfires must be suppressed for public safety, ecologists say, forest managers need ...