If you think of New Jersey ... Pine Barrens special. It keeps out aggressive species that might otherwise take over, allowing rare and unusual plants to carve out a niche for themselves. The pitch ...

Pitch pine trees, the dominant species ... woody potatoes underground,” said Russell Juelg, New Jersey Conservation Foundation’s senior Pine Barrens land steward and educator.

Health researchers are studying respiratory impacts as climate change makes wildfires more frequent and intense across the ...

If you look at the New Jersey Pine Barrens from the road or the air, it may seem to live up to its name – miles upon miles of endless pitch pine forest. But the million-acre-plus region spanning ...

Their favorite target is the pitch pine — the most common species in the pine barrens, 100,000 acres ... The insects may have blown in from New Jersey during Superstorm Sandy, Chapman said.

New Jersey faced an increased risk of more wildfires Friday, just as the massive Pine Barrens blaze was finally 60% contained, having burned through an area about as big as Newark. Temperatures of ...

Ecologists in New Jersey, which has a Pinelands ... of a threat there because there are no large pitch pine forests. Adult beetles burrow into trees, entering through cracks in the bark.

A wildfire that started Tuesday in New Jersey's vast Pine Barrens has been fully contained, according to authorities. The inferno razed 6 square miles of land, forcing the evacuation of about 170 ...

A second person has been charged with arson in the wildfire in New Jersey ... Pine Barrens sit between Philadelphia and the Atlantic coast, a region with quick-draining sandy soil and trees ...