barrens

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This instability created lawless zones such as the “neutral ground” of Bergen County in northeast New Jersey and the Pine Barrens in the south, where hardened “banditti” flourished.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

It’s like if Beckett had written the Pine Barrens episode of “The Sopranos.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023

In New Jersey the state Forest Fire Service has mounted a Firewise USA campaign throughout the Pine Barrens and installed fire towers, which are staffed whenever the forest is dry enough to burn.

From Scientific American • Aug. 23, 2023

Barrens topminnows are named for where they live — Tennessee’s Barrens Plateau, so called for the relative lack of trees.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2022

The witch-queen, oldest of the Lilim, reined in the horses beside a pinnacle of rock the color of verdigris, which jutted from the marshy soil of the Barrens like a needle.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman