Nature Event Features CSI: Great Swamp

Free outdoor hike seeks to teach people about Morristown National Park's wintertime wildlife.

If you're a devotee of the "CSI" shows, you know forensic science isn’t just for people with lab coats and police badges. What you may not know is thatyou don’t always need computers and fancy equipment to figure out “whodunit,” especially where Mother Nature is concerned. Learn more about it Sunday, when the Great Swamp Watershed Association hosts a wintertime Nature Detectives Hike at the Jockey Hollow Unit of Morristown National Historical Park. Naturalists and conservation biologists use basic forensic techniques all the time as they go about the business of studying and monitoring the plants and animals living around us.  This event is your chance to pick up a few simple tips and tricks for sleuthing out the world around you from what…

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Gobsmacked

2:14 pm on Saturday, February 23, 2013

It's tomorrow.   more ›

Body Found in Swamp ID'd as 62-Year-Old Man

Authorities said there was no foul play involved in the man's death.

Body Found in Swamp Was Lake Hopatcong Man

Officials ruled death a suicide from gunshot wound to the stomach.

Authorities have ruled the death of a Lake Hopatcong man found in the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge a suicide, according to the Observer Tribune. The man was found shot in the stomach near Long Hill Road in Harding Tuesday, the Observer Tribune reported. Harding police said the area is commonly used as a spot for hiking and bicycling. Authorities have declined to provide further information. Read the full story from the Observer Tribune here.

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Aladdin Sarsippius Sulemenagic Jackson III

3:30 pm on Thursday, January 17, 2013

I don't speak from personal experience, but bullet wounds in the stomach are reported to be extremely painful and agonizing.   more ›