Pinelands Regional High School students are learning about the natural ecosystems that exist just steps outside their classrooms in an honors ecology course, “From the Barrens to the Bay,” taught by James Ardoin. In a presentation to the Little Egg Harbor Township Environmental Commission on Thursday, April 24, Ardoin discussed the students’ coursework.

The class uses the Pinelands Regional campus as a living classroom, as it explores and preserves three abandoned cranberry bogs and the Pine…