The section of the pine barrens that burned in the Westhampton brush fire on Saturday is expected to recover with new plant ...

Stemming the Southern pine beetle onslaught is one way to limit the amount of dead trees that lead to new growth and more ...

As of Sunday morning, the Covington Drive fire is at 70% containment and 2,059 acres, according to the S.C. Forestry ...

The wildfires began accidentally when someone in Suffolk County tried to light a fire to make s’mores, officials said. They ...

The last of four blazes that began in Suffolk County on Saturday has been put out, but Long Island and the Hudson Valley ...

Government must act to remove dead trees that increase fire risk and spread and make firefighting even more difficult and ...

A wind-toppled pine tree that took out a power line Friday brought out Groveland and West Newbury firefighters to extinguish ...

He said the fire was fueled by hundreds of dead pine trees in the Pine Barrens region. "Without the combined efforts of everyone involved, we would not have been able to stop this fire," Romaine said.

Some are concerned about what would happen if a fire broke out in Manorville, where there are thousands of dead trees, following the weekend fires in the Center Moriches and Westhampton areas.

I am writing this letter to urge DCR to put the brakes on the clear-cutting of the white pine plantations in the Manuel Correllus State Forest on Martha’s Vineyard. While I recognize that many years ...