If you think of New Jersey as highways and crowded beaches, prepare to be astonished. Tucked away in the heart of the state ...

Copperheads, cottonmouths, and timber rattlesnakes like the Savannah River’s wetlands, hardwood forests, and lowland swamps. “These venomous species thrive in the river’s leaf-littered trails and ...

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 ...

They’re not out of the woods yet. Long Island’s vulnerable pine barrens, recently ravaged by wildfires last March, are facing another threat in the form of an invasive species that could spell ...

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 ...

Not the most deadly, which would be the dreaded copperhead, South Carolina’s most abundant snake. World Atlas called South Carolina’s coastal marshes, pine barrens, and mountain rivers prime ...