Examples of barren

• The large grasslands and barrens are dominated by scattered jack pine, red pine, scrub oak, and quaking aspen trees.

• The park is a 260acre km2 nature preserve, comprising wetlands, ponds, sand barrens, spring-fed streams, and woodlands.

• Open barrens are now rare and imperiled globally, as suppression of wildfires has allowed larger climax forest vegetation to take over in most one-time barrens.

• The northern part of the county is known as the barrens, named by the early settlers for the lack timber there.

• In some areas it produces natural blueberry barrens, where it is practically the only species covering large areas.

• Grasslands and barrens have replaced previously forested areas leading to greater soil erosion.

• The plant grows in sandhills, pine barrens and dry, sandy woods.

• Outwash from the last of numerous glacial periods left thick glacial deposits of sand and gravel, providing the geologic foundation for globally rare pine barrens.