The $41,500 land buy will add a missing piece to the county’s 85-acre Pine Island Preserve, just south of State Road 64 and ...

The 1989 fire stoked an ongoing debate at the time about whether the pine barrens should be developed. In 1993, the state passed the Long Island Pine Barrens Protection Act, which heavily ...

Long Island’s vulnerable ... A New York DEC forest technician cutting down an infested tree in Rocky Point on April 13, 2022. The pine trees must be cut down when they have been ravaged by ...

Authorities arrested the 19-year-old from Waretown, New Jersey, and charged him with arson and aggravated arson in the fire that’s still burning in southern New Jersey that they described as started ...

The massive brush fire that impacted the East End of Long Island ... The pine barrens is considered a fire-dependent ecosystem, which means the dead section of the forest will regrow quickly ...