A wildfire burning in New Jersey's Wharton State Forest, named the Mines Spung Wildfire, burned 6,400 acres as of June 18.

Health researchers are studying respiratory impacts as climate change makes wildfires more frequent and intense across the ...

The 5,750-acre Mines Spung Fire, as state officials have named it, was first spotted Friday morning by a private aircraft flying over the area in Shamong Township. It resulted in multiple road ...

The New Jersey Pine Barrens is an area of around 1.1 million acres that spreads across seven counties in the state. Covering over 20% of New Jersey's land area, these pinelands are one of the ...

A new plan to cut as many as 2.4 million small trees from a dense section of the New Jersey Pinelands as part of wildfire mitigation efforts by the state has drawn criticism from some officials ...

An old timer living a solitary life in the wilds of the New Jersey Pinelands is in no hurry to work as the day dawns. Woodcutter and forager Bill Wasiowich is taking it easier and doing ...

The state DEP also references other unofficial early accounts and newspaper stories of fires burning thousands of acres of New Jersey pinelands. "One such account from 1755 reports a fire 30 miles ...

New Jersey Pinelands Forest Fire Is Mostly Contained, Official Says BERKELEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Firefighters have mostly contained a forest fire burning in the southern New Jersey Pinelands.

Nearly 120 acres of forested land in the Delaware River Watershed has been preserved, the New Jersey Conservation Foundation ...

Wildfire in New Jersey Pine Barrens Expected to Grow Before It's Contained, Officials Say CHATSWORTH, N.J. (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire engulfing part of New Jersey's Pine Barrens has not ...

As of mid-afternoon, the blaze on the northern edge of the New Jersey Pinelands had consumed about 189 acres (76 hectares) or less than one square mile, according to Jeremy Webber, a supervising ...