The Long Island Pine Barrens Society in recent months launched its “The Best of the Rest” campaign — an effort to add more than a dozen properties in Shoreham, Hampton Bays, Manorville ...

The Long Island Pine Barrens Society’s mission to combat overdevelopment and preserve 100,000 acres of land in Suffolk County began in 1989 and was accomplished in 2019. But the organization is ...

During the past 20 years, Long Island’s largest wildfires have charred hundreds of acres of the East End’s pine barrens. The ecosystem, 50,000 acres of publicly protected land, needs fire to ...

The Long Island Pine Barrens are a rare 900-square-mile ecosystem in Suffolk County. They play a little-known but crucial role in protecting drinking water.

The Long Island Pine Barrens cover 100,000 acres in Suffolk County. They’re planned for sections of the pine barrens in Middle Island, Ridge and Riverside. Tags.

New York State committed $3 million to fighting the spread of the southern pine beetle on Long Island, where it killed thousands of pine trees over the past three years, officials said.

"The Pine Barrens have been burning for thousands of years, and our firefighters have learned that it's better to fight small fires rather than big fires," said Richard Amper of the Long Island ...

A Long Island construction bigwig is facing up to seven years behind bars for dumping loads of concrete into Suffolk County’s fire-ravaged pine barrens using a truck with a laundry list of ...

Some cagey scofflaws have chosen the precious woods among the 100,000 acres of protected Pine Barrens land as their ... Illegally Dumping In Long Island's Pine Barrens. October 8, 2018 / 6 ...

On Friday, July 19, 2024, the updated Central Pine Barrens Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) goes into effect. ... Long Island Central Pine Barrens Land Use Plan Takes Effect July 19.