Rutgers University will dedicate a kiosk at the entrance to a network of nature trails on its Livingston campus Sunday in memory of naturalist and former student Charlie Kontos, who died suddenly in 2010 at the age of 33. Kontos, who was an adjunct professor and PhD candidate at Rutgers, is widely credited with discovering the re-emergence of the fisher in New Jersey when he captured a photograph of one of the small carnivorous mammals in 2006. Before his discovery, the fisher was thought to have left the Garden State long ago.
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