The dry and windy weather also helped spread blazes in southern New Jersey, where a forest fire raced through pinelands for a second day.
Ms. Stewart, stumbling through the forest and racing through an awkward, Shakespeare-lite speech to her hastily mustered good-guy army, understands the job perfectly and undertakes it in good faith.
As Formula One returns to action this weekend at the Belgian Grand Prix after a four-week break, a strangely high proportion of paddock gossip will focus on a country and racetrack 3,500 kilometers away from the Ardennes Forest, where the race is taking place.
The Ocean County forest, where fire raced across 1,300 acres on June 2, is beginning to show new growth, officials with the State Department of Environmental Protection said.
I was navigating the swirling eddies of ideas and people that teemed at the roots of this concrete forest, my mind racing from the never-ending deluge of headlines and information, trying to decipher the future of the world.
New Forest ponies are raced in an annual point to point meeting in the Forest, usually on Boxing Day, finishing at a different place each year.
The Sandra Bullock-led "Gravity" narrowly edged out "Lee Daniels The Butlerr," the Forest Whitaker vehicle about race and the White House across several decades of American history.
Then they duck out of their hut and race for the forest.
As soon as our team is sorted, the barking stops and we race along a forest trail in silence, which is broken only by the squeak of runners on snow.
Gordon Lee's Everton, on the other hand, were in the thick of the title race, sitting on Forest's shoulder in second spot, two points off the top, and on a 22-match unbeaten run.
