The Delaware Bayshore Birding and Wildlife Trails project was coordinated by New Jersey Audubon Society (NJAS) staff, Lillian B. Armstrong, Director of Birding and Wildlife Trails, and Gina Ewald, Project Associate, with the guidance of Dale Rosselet, Vice President of Education, and Eric Stiles, Vice President of Conservation and Stewardship.
NJAS is extremely grateful to the New Jersey Department of Transportation for funding this meaningful and exciting community-based program. The team would like to thank especially Laurie Pettigrew of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Division of Fish and Wildlife for her unwavering dedication, encouragement and expertise throughout the project.
Many other people made significant contributions, including Jeannine Parvin, who designed our database; a host of local field naturalists, without whose collective knowledge of the area this guide would not have been possible; the team at ART270, who created and implemented the guide’s striking graphic design; and the New Jersey Department of Transportation's Division of Information Technology, whose talented team created all the maps in the guide. For this website, we are grateful for the efforts of NJAS’s long-time friends, Mike Lyncheski and Robert Riviera of The Harrier Group, and Jim O’Malley, Information Systems Manager at NJAS.
Thanks also to the members of the communities and local governments in Cape May, Cumberland and Salem counties, whose hard work and sense of pride in their communities made this project possible.
Finally, we wish to thank the fine birders, naturalists, scientists, historians and conservationists who came before us and worked to protect New Jersey’s abundant natural resources, especially the staff, Board of Directors, and volunteers of New Jersey Audubon Society. Their dedication and enthusiasm inspires us, and millions of others, to protect and enjoy wildlife whenever and wherever we can.