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Pine Barrens (New Jersey)

Index Pine Barrens (New Jersey)

The Pine Barrens, also known as the Pinelands or simply the Pines, is a heavily forested area of coastal plain stretching across more than seven counties of New Jersey. [1]

93 relations: American black bear, American Revolution, Amphibian, Apple Pie Hill, Atlantic City Expressway, Atlantic coastal pine barrens, Atlantic County, New Jersey, Bald eagle, Bass River State Forest, Batsto River, Batsto Village, New Jersey, Blueberry, Bobcat, Bog, Bog iron, Brendan T. Byrne State Forest, Burlington County, New Jersey, Camden County, New Jersey, Cape May County, New Jersey, Carnivorous plant, Case study, Chamaecyparis thyoides, Coastal plain, Columbia Missourian, Cranberry, Cumberland County, New Jersey, Cypripedium acaule, Dwarf forest, East Coast of the United States, Ecoregion, Elizabeth Coleman White, Emilio Carranza, Eugenics, Fire regime, Garden State Parkway, Ghost town, Global Positioning System, Gloucester County, New Jersey, Great Egg Harbor River, Hammonton, New Jersey, Howard P. Boyd, Humid continental climate, Humid subtropical climate, Indian Mills, New Jersey, John McPhee, Kirkwood–Cohansey aquifer, Lake Atsion, Legends and tales of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, Local extinction, Long Island Central Pine Barrens, ..., Mammal, Man and the Biosphere Programme, Maurice River, Mexico City, Mullica River, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Park Service, National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, New Jersey, New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve, New York City, Northeast megalopolis, Ocean County, New Jersey, Orchidaceae, Orders of magnitude (numbers), Penn State Forest, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pine barrens, Pine Barrens (The Sopranos), Pine Barrens tree frog, Piney (Pine Barrens resident), Pinus rigida, Reptile, Rutgers University, Salem County, New Jersey, Second Barbary War, Serotiny, Stephen Decatur, Sugar sand, Tabernacle Township, New Jersey, The Kallikak Family, The New York Times, The Pine Barrens, The Sopranos, Thunderstorm, Timber rattlesnake, UNESCO, United Nations, Urban sprawl, War of 1812, Wharton State Forest, Wildfire. Expand index (43 more) »

American black bear

The American black bear (Ursus americanus) is a medium-sized bear native to North America.

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American Revolution

The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783.

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Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.

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Apple Pie Hill

Apple Pie Hill is a hill in Tabernacle Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.

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Atlantic City Expressway

The Atlantic City Expressway (officially numbered, but unsigned, as Route 446 and abbreviated A.C. Expressway, ACE, or ACX, and known locally as "the Expressway") is a, controlled-access toll road in New Jersey, managed and operated by the South Jersey Transportation Authority.

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Atlantic coastal pine barrens

The Atlantic coastal pine barrens is a temperate coniferous forest ecoregion of the Northeast United States distinguished by its nutrient-poor, often acidic soils and a pine tree distribution naturally controlled by frequent fires.

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Atlantic County, New Jersey

Atlantic County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Bald eagle

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus, from Greek ἅλς, hals "sea", αἰετός aietos "eagle", λευκός, leukos "white", κεφαλή, kephalē "head") is a bird of prey found in North America.

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Bass River State Forest

Bass River State Forest is a state park in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.

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Batsto River

The Batsto River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Batsto Village, New Jersey

Batsto Village (or simply Batsto) is a historic unincorporated community located on CR 542 within Washington Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.

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Blueberry

Blueberries are perennial flowering plants with blue– or purple–colored berries.

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Bobcat

The bobcat (Lynx rufus) is a North American cat that appeared during the Irvingtonian stage of around 1.8 million years ago (AEO).

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Bog

A bog is a wetland that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material—often mosses, and in a majority of cases, sphagnum moss.

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Bog iron

Bog iron is a form of impure iron deposit that develops in bogs or swamps by the chemical or biochemical oxidation of iron carried in solution.

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Brendan T. Byrne State Forest

The Brendan T. Byrne State Forest (formerly the Lebanon State Forest) is a state forest in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

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Burlington County, New Jersey

Burlington County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Camden County, New Jersey

Camden County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Cape May County, New Jersey

Cape May County is the southernmost county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Carnivorous plant

Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients (but not energy) from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods.

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Case study

In the social sciences and life sciences, a case study is a research method involving an up-close, in-depth, and detailed examination of a subject of study (the case), as well as its related contextual conditions.

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Chamaecyparis thyoides

Chamaecyparis thyoides (Atlantic white cedar, Atlantic white cypress, southern white cedar, whitecedar, or false-cypress), a species of Cupressaceae, is native to the Atlantic coast of North America and is found from southern Maine to Georgia and along the Gulf of Mexico coast from Florida to Mississippi.

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Coastal plain

A coastal plain is flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast.

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Columbia Missourian

The Columbia Missourian is a digital-first newspaper based in Columbia, Missouri, published seven days a week on and five days a week in print.

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Cranberry

Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium.

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Cumberland County, New Jersey

Cumberland County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Cypripedium acaule

Cypripedium acaule is a member of the orchid genus Cypripedium.

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Dwarf forest

Dwarf forest, elfin forest, or pygmy forest is a rare ecosystem featuring miniature trees, inhabited by small species of fauna such as rodents and lizards.

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East Coast of the United States

The East Coast of the United States is the coastline along which the Eastern United States meets the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Ecoregion

An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone.

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Elizabeth Coleman White

Elizabeth Coleman White (October 5, 1871November 11, 1954) was a New Jersey agricultural specialist who collaborated with Frederick Vernon Coville to develop and commercialize a cultivated blueberry.

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Emilio Carranza

Captain Emilio Carranza Rodríguez (December 9, 1905 – July 12, 1928) was a noted Mexican aviator and national hero, nicknamed the "Lindbergh of Mexico".

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Eugenics

Eugenics (from Greek εὐγενής eugenes 'well-born' from εὖ eu, 'good, well' and γένος genos, 'race, stock, kin') is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of a human population.

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Fire regime

A fire regime is the pattern, frequency, and intensity of the bushfires and wildfires that prevail in an area over long periods of time.

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Garden State Parkway

The Garden State Parkway (GSP) is a limited-access toll parkway that stretches the length of New Jersey from the New York line at Montvale to Cape May at the state's southernmost tip.

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Ghost town

A ghost town is an abandoned village, town, or city, usually one that contains substantial visible remains.

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Global Positioning System

The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force.

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Gloucester County, New Jersey

Gloucester County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Great Egg Harbor River

The Great Egg Harbor River is a river in southern New Jersey in the United States.

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Hammonton, New Jersey

Hammonton is a town in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, known as the "Blueberry Capital of the World." As of the 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 14,791, reflecting an increase of 2,187 (+17.4%) from the 12,604 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 396 (+3.2%) from the 12,208 counted in the 1990 Census.

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Howard P. Boyd

Howard P. Boyd (November 2, 1914 – December 20, 2011) was an entomologist, botanist, editor, teacher, photographer, filmmaker, writer, and naturalist, best known for his close association with the Pine Barrens of New Jersey spanning more than 70 years.

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Humid continental climate

A humid continental climate (Köppen prefix D and a third letter of a or b) is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, which is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) winters.

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Humid subtropical climate

A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild to cool winters.

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Indian Mills, New Jersey

Indian Mills is an unincorporated community located within Shamong Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.

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John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is an American writer, widely considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction.

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Kirkwood–Cohansey aquifer

The Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer is an aquifer system in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

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Lake Atsion

Lake Atsion is a man-made lake in Wharton State Forest in the Pine Barrens, in the community of Atsion, Burlington County, New Jersey.

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Legends and tales of the New Jersey Pine Barrens

The New Jersey Pine Barrens has been the site of many legends, tales and mythical creatures, many of which have been documented by Weird NJ in its magazines and books.

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Local extinction

Local extinction or extirpation is the condition of a species (or other taxon) that ceases to exist in the chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere.

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Long Island Central Pine Barrens

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.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Man and the Biosphere Programme

Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an intergovernmental scientific programme, launched in 1971 by UNESCO, that aims to establish a scientific basis for the improvement of relationships between people and their environments.

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Maurice River

The Maurice River is a tributary of Delaware Bay in Salem County and Cumberland County, New Jersey in the United States.

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Mexico City

Mexico City, or the City of Mexico (Ciudad de México,; abbreviated as CDMX), is the capital of Mexico and the most populous city in North America.

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Mullica River

The Mullica River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; pronounced, like "Noah") is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.

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National Wild and Scenic Rivers System

The National Wild and Scenic River is a designation for certain protected areas in the United States.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve

New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve (also known as Pinelands National Reserve) is a national reserve that preserves the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Northeast megalopolis

The Northeast megalopolis (also Boston–Washington corridor or Bos-Wash corridor), the most populous megalopolis in the Western Hemisphere with over 50 million residents, is the most heavily urbanized region of the United States.

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Ocean County, New Jersey

Ocean County is a county located along the Jersey Shore in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Orchidaceae

The Orchidaceae are a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family.

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Orders of magnitude (numbers)

This list contains selected positive numbers in increasing order, including counts of things, dimensionless quantity and probabilities.

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Penn State Forest

Penn State Forest is a state park in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Pine barrens

Pine barrens, pine plains, sand plains, or pinelands 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.

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Pine Barrens (The Sopranos)

"Pine Barrens" is the 37th episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the 11th of the show's third season.

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Pine Barrens tree frog

The Pine Barrens tree frog (Hyla andersonii) is a species of New World tree frog.

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Piney (Pine Barrens resident)

Piney is a derogatory term that refers to inhabitants of the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

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Pinus rigida

Pinus rigida, the pitch pine, is a small-to-medium-sized pine, native to eastern North America.

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Reptile

Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.

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Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and is the largest institution of higher education in New Jersey.

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Salem County, New Jersey

Salem County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Second Barbary War

The Second Barbary War (1815) was fought between the United States and the North African Barbary Coast states of Tripoli, Tunis, and Ottoman Algeria.

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Serotiny

Serotiny is an ecological adaptation exhibited by some seed plants, in which seed release occurs in response to an environmental trigger, rather than spontaneously at seed maturation.

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Stephen Decatur

Stephen Decatur Jr. (January 5, 1779 – March 22, 1820) was a United States naval officer and commodore.

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Sugar sand

Sugar sand has multiple meanings: Sugar sand refers to the debris that settles to the bottom of a container of maple sap once it has reached a sugar concentration of 66-67%.

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Tabernacle Township, New Jersey

Tabernacle Township is a township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.

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The Kallikak Family

The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness was a 1912 book by the American psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Pine Barrens

The Pine Barrens is a 1968 book by American writer John McPhee about the history, people and biology of the New Jersey Pine Barrens that originally appeared in The New Yorker in 1967.

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The Sopranos

The Sopranos is an American crime drama television series created by David Chase.

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Thunderstorm

A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm, lightning storm, or thundershower, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.

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Timber rattlesnake

The timber rattlesnake, canebrake rattlesnake or banded rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus),Wright AH, Wright AA (1957).

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

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Urban sprawl

Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a process called suburbanization.

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War of 1812

The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815.

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Wharton State Forest

Wharton State Forest is the largest state forest in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Wildfire

A wildfire or wildland fire is a fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or rural area.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Barrens_(New_Jersey)

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