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Action Committee Meetings
Action Committee/WMG meetings are located in the Morris County Library, Large Conference Room, 30 East Hanover Avenue , Whippany, at 5:45 p.m. Parking is available at that location. Pizza is served.
Come join us! Visitors are welcome and volunteers are needed. For directions and location information go to our Contact page.
Executive Committee Meetings
- January 20, 2010
- February 17, 2010
- March 17, 2010
- April 21, 2010
- May 19, 2010
- June 16, 2010
- July 21, 2010
- August 18, 2010
Executive Committee meetings are held in Hanover Township Town Hall on the third Wednesday of the month at 7:00 p.m.
A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself - for it is from the soil, both from its depth and from its surface, that a river has its beginning. -Laura Gilpin
Annum Natura
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January
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February
2 - Ground Hog Day - celebrate winter and winter's passing.
23 - Woody Guthrie writes "This Land is Your Land" in 1940
25 - Howard Clinton Zahniser (1906-1964) - father of the Wilderness Act of 1964
Variable - Tu B'Shevat the Jewish New Year of Trees - celebrated on the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month of Shevat
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March
1 - First National Park established - Yellowstone, 1872
10 - Hazel Wolf Day - (1898-2000) - 101 years of activism for Audubon.
14 - International Day of Action Against Dams and for Rivers, Water and Life from International Rivers Network.
21 or 22 - Vernal Equinox - The sun crosses the equator to begin spring in the northern hemisphere.
Variable - Arbor Day - This major tree planting holiday is celebrated on dates determined by the best tree planting times in each state or nation.
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April
21 - John Muir Day - (1838 - 1914) - Father of Our National Parks, wilderness explorer, naturalist, conservationist, and co-founder of the Sierra Club
22 - Earth Day - first celebrated 1970
26 - National Bird Day - A celebration of the birthday of the artist famous for his paintings of birds, John James Audubon born in 1785.
National Wildlife Week, usually in mid-April - celebrating wildlife conservation.
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May
3 - Pete Seeger Day - (1919 - ) - folk singer and conservationist.
25 - Ralph Waldo Emerson Day (1803-1882) - Preeminent Transcendentalist essayist
27 - Rachel Carson Day - (1907-1964) celebrating the life of the woman who first brought our attention to the toxic threats caused by mis-use of chemicals.
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June
5 - World Environment Day - established 1972
21 - (on or around) Summer Solstice - First day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest day of the year
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July
12 - Henry David Thoreau Day - (1817-1862)
14 - Woody Guthrie Day (1912-1967)
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August
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September
1 - Species Requiem Day - A day to mourn the loss of the species lost to extinction by human hands.
21 (on or around) - Autumn Equinox - First day of Autumn.
26 - Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) Day - (1774-1845) Planted thousands of apple trees around the Northwest Territories.
29 - J. Horace McFarland Day - founder of the nationwide "City Beautiful" movement and advocate for the establishment of the National Park Service in 1916.
Variable - National Public Lands Day - Last Saturday in September - a day to improve and enhance resources in national parks and forests, reservoirs and other public lands where Americans go to enjoy the outdoors.
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October
3 - National Estuaries Day. The theme of this celebration is "Estuaries -- Gateways to the Ocean."
16 - William O. Douglas Day - (1898-1980) - Supreme Court Justice and defender of Wilderness -
November
Variable - Fourth Thursday in November- Thanksgiving Day - giving thanks for Nature's bounty
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December
21 (on or around) Winter Solstice - First Day of Winter triggering many ancient and modern seasonal traditions from bonfires to gift-giving and solar rites celebrating the return of the sun and longer days