Southern pine beetles have killed thousands of acres of trees on Long Island, notably in the ecologically sensitive pine barrens. These altered landscapes are at higher risk of uncontrolled wildfires.

Long Island’s pine barrens cover 105,000 acres — a small remnant of a forest that once extended over a quarter million acres, but still a very large landscape to manage with controlled burns.

There are about 1,500 wildfires a year in New Jersey, according to the Forest Fire Service. Forest fires are a common occurrence in the Pine Barrens, a 1.1 million-acre state and federally protected ...

The Pine Barrens sit between Philadelphia to the west and the Atlantic coast to the east. The region, with its quick-draining sandy soil, is in peak forest fire season.

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 ...

But don’t expect the Pine Barrens production to hew to a structural formula. “I traffic in mysteries. That’s what is the most important part,” Shyamalan says of “Knock.” ...

Forest fires are a common occurrence in the Pine Barrens, a 1.1 million-acre state and federally protected reserve about halfway between Philadelphia to the west and the Atlantic coast to the east.