John Parke is Stewardship Project Director--North Jersey for New Jersey Audubon. He has been with New Jersey Audubon since 2005 helping to enroll a multitude of farmers, landowners, and corporate entities into various conservation incentive programs. John also designs and assists with implementation of numerous habitat restoration projects in the northwestern part of the state on both private and public lands. In 2007 John's habitat restoration plan design for the Verizon Corporate Campus in Basking Ridge, NJ earned Verizon the Governor's Environmental Excellence Award for the Healthy Ecosystem Category and in 2011 John's work with Troy Ettel on NJ Audubon's S.A.V.E. initiative earned NJ Audubon the Governor's Environmental Excellence Award for the Land Conservation Category. 

John received his B.A. in Environmental Studies with a concentration in Geoscience from Ramapo State College of New Jersey. He has over 16 years of experience working in private-sector environmental consulting, where he served as Senior Biologist/Wetland Specialist as well as Project Manager for the ecological division of Brennan Environmental, Inc. John is also a certified Professional Wetland Scientist with the Society of Wetland Scientists and a Certified Ecologist by the Ecological Society of America. John is an alumnus of Class VIII of the New Jersey Agricultural Leadership Development Program and is extremely active with the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Wildlife Conservation Corps.

Jean Lynch is Stewardship Project Director--South Jersey for New Jersey Audubon and also oversees the Important Bird and Birding Areas program. She works with public and private landowners to restore native ecosystems and enhance habitat availability for native species.

Before joining the New Jersey Audubon staff, Jean was the Coastal Region Biologist for the North Carolina State Parks system. At NC State Parks she worked on restoration and management of a range of coastal plain ecosystems, from longleaf pine to pocosin to salt marsh. Jean is experienced with the use of prescribed fire in ecosystem management and with control of invasive species. She has performed monitoring and habitat management for a number of rare and endangered species, including Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Wilson’s and Piping Plovers, American Oystercatchers, Least Terns, several sea turtle species, and Venus flytraps. Jean has also worked on wading bird habitat in the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary; on a colonial waterbird nesting island off the coast of Maine; and at a prescribed fire demonstration site in the Long Island Pine Barrens.

Jean has a Master’s Degree in Environmental Management from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, where her training focused on landscape ecology and restoration and management of wetlands and fire-dependent ecosystems. She has a certificate in geospatial analysis from Duke University and is a certified wildland firefighter. Her bachelor’s degree is from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She is based at New Jersey Audubon’s Center for Research and Education in Cape May Court House, New Jersey.

Don Donnelly is Stewardship Project Director--Forester for New Jersey Audubon, and oversees the forestry initiatives being undertaken by NJAS throughout the state, with a focus on ecological forestry at a landscape scale.

Don obtained his B.S. in Natural Resource Management with a concentration in Forest Management from Rutgers University. Don has 17 years of experience working as a forester for several government agencies, including the Hunterdon County Parks Department, the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station, and the Morris County Soil Conservation District. Don’s work has included all aspects of wildlife and natural resource habitat improvements, including traditional forest inventory measurements, invasive species management, wetland and stream restoration projects, wildlife habitat enhancement, and timber management. Don also holds credentials as a NJ Approved Forester and NJ Certified Tree Expert. He is accredited by the NJ Community Forestry Council, is a Qualified Inspector for the American Tree Farm System and is certified as a Wildland Firefighter by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group.

Gylla MacGregor is Project Director - GIS for New Jersey Audubon. In addition to working on habitat restoration projects on both state and private land, she also oversees NJAS's 28 unstaffed sanctuaries and two conservation easements. Gylla is responsible for acquisition, trail installation and maintenance, biodiversity inventory, and land stewardship of NJAS property holdings. She also uses her extensive GIS/GPS experience to apply mapping and spatial analysis to restoration projects. Gylla has been involved in field research since 1996, working primarily with small mammals and reptiles. She has focused on habitat use, specifically the impact of habitat disturbance on small mammals, reptiles, and the Regal Fritillary butterfly. Gylla has also used radiotelemetry, GIS, and GPS to study habitat use and behavior in reptiles.

Gylla received her B.A. in Biology from The College of New Jersey, and her Master's degree in Biology/Ecology from Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Gylla holds a current NJDEP Commercial Pesticide Applicator License and has taken advanced courses in GIS, including spatial analysis and remote sensing.

Suzanne Treyger is Stewardship Project Coordinator with New Jersey Audubon, where her work is focused on wildlife habitat management and restoration on public and private lands, public outreach activities, managing data for the Important Bird and Birding Areas Program, and coordinating volunteers. Suzanne has over eight years of experience working as a field biologist on numerous wildlife projects, including wintering Hermit Thrushes, Eastern Bluebirds, Piping Plovers, Blanding’s turtles, and big and little brown bats. She has conducted breeding bird surveys throughout the eastern U.S., and has worked in a variety of habitat types for the New Hampshire Fish and Game Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program, Cornell University, and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Suzanne also taught horticulture and environmental science to middle school students in Danville, Virginia, for two years.

Suzanne received a B.S. in Wildlife Management from the University of New Hampshire, and a M.S. in Natural Resources Management from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, where her research focused on invasive species management issues on private lands in the Adirondack State Park.

Jeremy Caggiano, Stewardship Project Coordinator – Forester for NJA, serves as the crew leader for landscape level forest inventories throughout northern New Jersey and works closely with the organization’s Stewardship Project Directors on various program initiatives including their Forest Stewardship Council Group certification efforts.

Jeremy earned his B.S. in Forestry from the University of Maine’s School of Forest Resources and has been practicing his trade throughout the northeast and inland northwestern regions of the United States for more than a decade. He is an active member of the Society of American Foresters (SAF) and several state forestry and timber product associations. Jeremy holds certification as a Wildland Firefighter and is certified as a Wetland Delineator by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Prior to his work with NJA, Jeremy was Director of Stewardship for one of New York’s foremost nongovernmental conservation organizations. In this role he assumed responsibility as a SmartWood Group Manager and worked directly with international certification bodies to develop guiding policies promoting sustainability through Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification. Jeremy has overseen large scale forest inventory, timber marking, prescription burn, and sale activities as a Certified Forester and is owner and proprietor of a natural resources consulting firm.

Judith Bland has been a Volunteer with the Conservation and Stewardship group of New Jersey Audubon since 2004. She continues to be involved in a variety of NJAS activities including stuffing envelopes, refinishing furniture, clearing brush, writing, and editing. Judith has completed more than one thousand hours of volunteer work and is well on her way to two thousand.

Judith earned a B.A. degree in Biology from Thomas More College; and then completed both an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Ecological Microbiology at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana. Prior to retirement Judith worked in a variety of positions, including postdoctoral appointments, teaching, research, and environmental work in the pharmaceutical industry.