The New Jersey Pine Barrens, also known as the Pinelands or simply the Pines, is the largest remaining example of the Atlantic coastal pine barrens ecosystem, stretching across more than seven counties of New Jersey.

Pine barrens, pine plains, sand plains, or pineland areas occur throughout the U.S. from Florida to Maine (see Atlantic coastal pine barrens) as well as the Midwest, West, and Canada and parts of Eurasia. Perhaps the most well known pine-barrens area to North Americans is the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Pine barrens are generally pine forests in ...

The New Jersey Pine Barrens is the “ecological” term that describes the unique, beautiful and fascinating ecosystem and natural treasure that covers most of southern New Jersey. (See: New Jersey Pine Barrens vs. NJ Pinelands: What’s the Difference?)

The Pine Barrens is a large and heavily forested area stretches across the southern coastal plain of New Jersey and is renowned for its unspoiled nature, abundant, and diverse wildlife. Also known as the Pine Lands, it covers a huge area of over 1.1 million acres, or 22 percent of New Jersey's land area.

Residents and visitors alike have come to discover that the Pinelands, or Pine Barrens, is both an ecological and recreational gem located within a close driving distance to Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Washington and the Jersey Shore.

Dec 8, 2007 · Pine barrens are plant communities that occur on dry, acidic, infertile soils dominated by grasses, forbs, low shrubs, and scattered trees; most extensive barrens occur in large areas of sandy glacial deposits, including outwash …

Nov 21, 2024 · Explore the serenity, unique ecology and history of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. With just over 38,000 acres, Brendan T. Byrne State Forest is the second largest state forest and is located in the pine barrens.

17 hours ago · The pine barrens are a "fire dependent ecosystem," according to ecologists, meaning that burns are necessary to clear dead vegetation and reduce density so that new growth can take place.

3 days ago · Officials are probing the possibility of arson in connection to a series of large brush fires that scorched parts of Long Island’s Pine Barrens Saturday, according to ABC 7 New York.

3 days ago · In 1862, according to the Pine Barrens Society, a fire raged from Smithtown to Southampton. Long Island brush fires in late April 1989 extended from the pine barrens in Deer Park to Riverhead.