The Ecological Pine Barrens of New Jersey: An Ecosystem Threatened by Fragmentation
Howard P. Boyd is an entomologist, botanist, editor, teacher, photographer, filmmaker, writer, and naturalist whose association with the Pine Barrens of New Jersey has spanned more than 70 years. He has served as Vice President of the New Jersey Audubon Society and as Chair of its Advisory Committee for the Rancocas Nature Center, which he helped establish. He has served as a Trustee, now Emeritus, of Pinelands Preservation Alliance (PPA) since 1989. In 2004, he was named by PPA as one of two premiere recipients of the annual Pine Barrens Hall of Fame Award, established to honor heroes of Pinelands preservation. His previous books, also from Plexus Publishing, Inc., are A Field Guide to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey (1991), A Pine Barrens Odyssey: A Naturalist's Year in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey (1997), and Wildflowers of the Pine Barrens of New Jersey (2001).