Barrens

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Barrens may refer to:

• Pine barrens, a type of ecosystem found in the Northeastern United States
  • Pine Barrens (New Jersey), a pine barren in the state of New Jersey
  • List of pine barrens which includes some other locations called "Pine Barrens" or "Barrens"
• Serpentine barrens, a grassland or savanna ecosystem in which toxic metals in the soil from minerals of the serpentine group inhibit the growth of many plants
• Urchin barrens, where the proliferation of sea urchins has caused a massive kelp die-off

The Barrens may refer to:

• the Tundra of northern Canada, sometimes specific to the Tundra of Northern Manitoba as referenced in the 1956 book Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat. Also called 'Barren Lands'.
• a location in the Warcraft Universe
• a novel by F. Paul Wilson
• a novel by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Barrens (It), a location in the novel It by Stephen King
• The Barrens (film), a 2012 American horror film written and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and starring Stephen Moyer and Mia Kirshner

See also

• Barren vegetation
• Barren (disambiguation)
• Barren Island (disambiguation)