barrens

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In these cases, intense grazing by urchins can strip seafloors of plant life, damaging marine habitats and creating so-called "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

The mass die-out allowed the sea urchin population to explode, and in 2021, satellite imagery showed that 95 percent of California’s kelp forests had been destroyed and replaced by carpets of sickly sea urchin barrens.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2022

It worked again and again, his own iron fact, in alleys and pine barrens and swamps.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead