During Dalat’s rainy months, travelers flock to pine forests for guided mushroom-foraging adventures and the chance to taste ...

Much of the 12,000 acres destroyed last year in New Jersey were in the territory of the Pine Barrens, including in Wharton State Forest ... of less than an inch of rain fell statewide.

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The cause of the fire is still under investigation, authorities said. Forest fires are a common occurrence in the Pine Barrens, a 1.1 million-acre (445,000-hectare) state and federally protected ...