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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Brookhaven National Lab has received some noisy guests this summer—a brood of cicadas that have been incubating for the last ...

Long Island’s Pine Barrens Preserve, seen here in Rocky Point, is protected to preserve groundwater quality. But experts say the region is also home to a vital ecosystem."; ...

A proposed golf course on 600 acres of land in Long Island’s Pine Barrens is testing the spirit of a 1993 law that was created to protect the forests – and the drinking water underneath them ...

After two investigations following commercial and residential dumping incidents in the pine barrens, authorities announced the arrest of two individuals. Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon, Jr ...

The fires tore eastbound into Long Island’s Pine Barrens and Westhampton in Suffolk County through Sunday before they were knocked down by emergency responders from more than 90 fire departments ...