The region's prolonged drought has created a flammable landscape heading into the state's peak season for blazes.

Long before John McPhee’s “The Pine Barrens” was published, New Jersey’s vast, dreamlike swath of sand and scrubby pines was seen as a wasteland by the unfamiliar, a place full of pirate ...

When I tell someone that the New Jersey Pine Barrens are among my favorite spots ... While hilarious, the duo’s misery is not a great tourism pitch, even if the episode was actually filmed ...

In the barrens’ typically sandy, nutrient-poor soil, crowded trees are less robust and produce less pitch, which is the pine’s only defense against burrowing insects. The crowding also helps ...