The students in Pinelands Regional High School teacher Jim Ardoin’s ecology class got the opportunity to do many things this past year.

The class, a new offering in the 2022-23 school year, is formally named “Honors Ecology: From The Barrens to the Bay.” It was open to juniors and seniors and was focused on three goals: the discovery of local ecosystems; stewardship of the Pinelands campus of over 40 acres of wooded paths, former cranberry bogs and the Gifford Mill Branch stream; and…