barrens

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At several locations in the archipelago, this population boom was so intense that it led to extensive urchin barrens.

From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2025

Bees are routinely trucked into the region to pollinate the blueberry barrens each spring.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024

But the rapid transformation of semirural areas into barrens of concrete tilt-up “logistic parks” is encountering a backlash.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2023

Narrow but well-worn paths weave through a landscape of heath and coastal barrens, a colorful carpet of wildflowers and evergreens made into dwarf-like shrubs by constant exposure to salt spray and wind.

From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2022

Rather than the thick, unbroken, monumental snarl of trees imagined by Thoreau, the great eastern forest was an ecological kaleidoscope of garden plots, blackberry rambles, pine barrens, and spacious groves of chestnut, hickory, and oak.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann