Controlled or prescribed fires have been used on Long Island since the 1995 Sunrise Fire near Westhampton to improve habitats ...

Firefighters will continue to vigorously fight accidental wildfires, even in the region's least dense areas, a Suffolk fire ...

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

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

At one point over the weekend, smoke from a South Jersey forest fire could be seen on weather radar, making its way from the ...

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

When I tell someone that the New Jersey Pine Barrens are among my favorite spots ... wander aimlessly through a monotonous, frozen forest, looking for a Russian commando they thought they ...

The pine barrens is considered a fire-dependent ecosystem, which means the dead section of the forest will regrow quickly, but the immediate concern is the possibility of embers reigniting.

Carved from the forest in 1961, this 50-mile north-south ... “We are, in some respects, shielded by the Pine Barrens,” he ...

Gusty winds, low humidity and dry conditions are expected to produce elevated fire danger in parts of the Southwest and Northeast on Tuesday.

Wildfires broke out Saturday along Sunrise Highway in the Pine Barrens region — a 105,000-acre protected forest in Suffolk County. High winds, a dry winter, and damaged trees from an infestation ...