Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine has announced the first ever Suffolk County Southern Pine Beetle Symposium will be held ...

Explore the best bets for hiking trails in Nassau and Suffolk counties, offering thousands of miles through woods, fields and ...

Long before John McPhee’s The Pine Barrens was published, New Jersey’s vast, dreamlike swath of sand and scrubby pines was ...

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By the time the danger had passed the morning after fire ripped through 600 acres of the Central Pine Barrens in Westhampton ...

The State Department of Environmental Conservation plans to conduct prescribed burns on certain DEC-managed lands in Suffolk County between now and early May.

Ollie Sweeney, Contributing Writer Earlier this month, a devastating wildfire ripped across Sunrise Highway on Long Island.

Anita Lago was walking along a stream leading to the emptied Stony Brook Mill Pond on Sept 1, overturned earth and strewn ...

A state plan to clear white pines in the Manuel F. Correllus Forest on Martha's Vineyard has caused debate. The state has ...

Quite the opposite, ecologists argue: Long Island’s pine barrens have burned too little in recent years. If wildfires must be suppressed for public safety, ecologists say, forest managers need ...

The fires evoked memories of the 1995 Sunrise Fire that burned through more than 5,000 acres of the Pine Barrens nature preserve and forced hundreds from their homes, according to the Long Island ...