Earth Day 2023 fell on a Saturday so it attracted many dozens of volunteers in Little Egg Harbor, with groups or individuals conducting cleanups of neighborhoods and roadsides in many areas of the township.

One of the efforts was especially interesting, a cleanup of the bogs and the surrounding woods behind Pinelands Regional High School. Nearly two dozen people including students, staff members and township residents gathered at 9 a.m., kicking off what Jim Ardoin, an honors ecology teacher at the school and an organizer of the cleanup, said would…