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 ...
Newsday13d
After Long Island wildfires, pine barrens need controlled burns, ecologists say
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 to set ...
Finding Mystery and Wilderness…in New Jersey?
Jokes about the Pine Barrens abound. But visitors willing to look closer will find a place steeped in nature, history and ...
'In a rush.' Vineyard forest cutting plan gets mixed reactions. Time added for comment.
A state plan to clear white pines in the Manuel F. Correllus Forest on Martha's Vineyard has caused debate. The state has ...
CBS News18d
Long Island brush fire 100% knocked down; Burn bans issued by Gov. Kathy Hochul
The pine barrens is considered a fire-dependent ecosystem, which means the dead section of the forest will regrow quickly, but the immediate concern is the possibility of embers reigniting.
The SandPaper1d
How the Dark Web Might Unloose Ruin on State’s Tree Frogs
I recently did an informative delve-about within the Dark Web, which I’ll use to also cover the Deep Web. As mere web mortals, we deal almost exclusively with the upper 10% of the available WWW, which ...
ABC News16d
Parts of Northeast and Southwest bracing for elevated fire danger
The fires quickly spread embers from Manorville to Eastport and into the publicly protected Pine Barrens region of West ... spread through the Carolina Forest in Horry County, South Carolina ...