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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 ...

By Sunday evening, the largest of the wildfires, which burned in the Pine Barrens, was 100% contained and other fires were under control, authorities added. On Monday, authorities confirmed that ...

“If there is a bright spot, it is that the Pine Barrens is in fact a fire-dependent system, so much of the plant life depend on fire in order to have regrowth and to reflourish,” Lefton said.

Sarnoff Pine Barrens State Forest in Riverhead ... They understood that fires improve biodiversity, allowing a succession of plants to grow in the newly open understory — ferns and mosses ...

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 ...

The New Jersey Pine Barrens is an area of around 1.1 million ... animals, and carnivorous plants. The ghostly remains of the villages and settlements that grew up around former mining and logging ...

Officials pronounced the Westhampton pine barrens fire 100% knocked down, but do have concerns about flare-ups. Rangers worked Sunday to create a containment perimeter. "The weather is still a ...