Still, Long Island firefighters said it's too dangerous ... residential neighborhoods — areas such as Rocky Point Pine Barrens State Forest. The agency’s staff started work there in 2022 ...

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 ...