The region's prolonged drought has created a flammable landscape heading into the state's peak season for blazes.

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 ...

The section of the pine barrens that burned in the Westhampton brush fire on Saturday is expected to recover with new plant life and wildlife, experts said. The pine barrens are a "fire dependent ...

The State Department of Environmental Conservation plans to conduct prescribed burns on certain DEC-managed lands in Suffolk County between now and early May.

With wildfires happening more often and burning more area, homes need to be “hardened” to make them more fire-resistant ...

LoMotion Live will welcome audiences to The Devil and Daisy Dirt in April. Step into an otherworldly adventure where Jersey's ...

Officials say the Pine Barrens is a fire-dependent system, which means much of the ecosystem and its plant life depends on fire in order to have regrowth and to flourish. Officials add that they ...

Much of southeast New York is under an early burn ban after wildfires ravaged the pine barrens in Long Island's Suffolk County the first week of March The NYS Department of Conservation implements ...

By the time the danger had passed the morning after fire ripped through 600 acres of the Central Pine Barrens in Westhampton ...