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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...