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 ...

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 ...

Today, the Pinelands National Preserve covers about 1.1 million acres, the largest body of open space on the East Coast between Boston and Richmond, a biological island ... state forest in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In New York, dry conditions across the state are resulting in a “high” fire danger rating in several regions including New York City, Long Island ... Forest fires are a common occurrence in ...