title: Barrens
text: # Barrens
  
  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
  * an area in the video game OneShot
  