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An analytics professor from Fair Haven says poor maps and no signs make it hard for off-road enthusiasts in the Pine Barrens to know what's off limits
Route 72 begins at the Four Mile Circle intersection of Route 70, Magnolia Road , and Four Mile Road in Woodland Township, Burlington County, heading to the southeast on a two-lane undivided road. [1] The route passes through heavily wooded areas of the Pine Barrens that are a part of the Brendan T. Byrne State Forest. [3]
The first shipbuilding operations began in the Pine Barrens in 1688, utilizing the cedar, oak, and pitch trees, as well as local tar and turpentine. The first sawmills and gristmills opened around 1700, leading to the first European settlements in the Pinelands. [8] [9] During the colonial era, the Pine Barrens was the location of various ...
Long Island Pine Barrens Trail office in Manorville, New York. The Long Island Central Pine Barrens (also known as the Long Island Pine Barrens) is a large area of publicly protected pine barrens in Suffolk County, New York, on Long Island, covering more than 100,000 acres (405 km 2).
The Pine Barrens Byway consists of three routes that run through the Pine Barrens in southern New Jersey. The northern route of the byway begins in Tuckerton in Ocean County and follows US 9 and Stage Road into Burlington County, where it continues along CR 653 and CR 542 to Green Bank. Here, the Pine Barrens Byway splits into a longer northern ...
The Albany Pine Bush is the sole remaining undeveloped portion of a pine barrens that once covered over 40 square miles (100 km 2), [6] and is "one of the best and last remaining examples of an inland pine barrens ecosystem on Earth."
Pine barrens, pine plains, sand plains, or pineland areas occur throughout the U.S. from Florida to Maine (see Atlantic coastal pine barrens) as well as the Midwest, West, and Canada and parts of Eurasia. Perhaps the most well known pine-barrens area to North Americans is the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Pine barrens are generally pine forests in ...
The Atlantic coastal pine barrens is a now rare temperate coniferous forest ecoregion of the Northeast United States distinguished by unique species and topographical features (coastal plain ponds, frost pocket), generally nutrient-poor, often acidic soils and a pine tree distribution once controlled by frequent fires.