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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...