December

December 1 — William Temple Hornaday Born (1937)

December 2 — International Whaling Commission Created (1946)

December 3 — Ellen Swallow Richards, Pioneering Environmental Chemist, Born (1842)

December 4 — Eastern Steller Sea Lion De-listed (2013)

December 5 —  World Soil Day

December 6 — Eliot Porter Born (1901)

December 7 — Beijing Issues First Red Alert for Air Pollution (2015)

December 8 — American Bird Banding Association Formed (1909)

December 9 — Wupatki National Monument Created (1924)

December 10 — Olivier Messiaen Born (1908)

December 11 — International Mountain Day

December 12 — Paris Climate Agreement Adopted (2015)

December 13 — Baiji Porpoise Declared Extinct (2006)

December 14 — World Monkey Day

December 15 — Chico Mendes Born (1944)

December 16 — Carol Browner, 8th EPA Administrator, Born (1955)

December 17 — Alexander Agassiz, Pioneering Oceanographer, Born (1835)

December 18 — First Commercial Nuclear Energy Produced (1957)

December 19 — Richard Leakey, Kenyan Conservationist, Born (1944)

December 20 — Earliest Date for Winter Solstice

December 20 — “It’s A Wonderful Life” Released (1946)

December 21 — Dr. Robert Bullard, Father of Environmental Justice, Born (1946)

December 21 — Trevor Kincaid Born (1872)

December 22 — Ruth Yeoh, Malaysian Environmentalist, Born (1982)

December 22 — Lady Bird Johnson, Environmental First Lady, Born (1912)

December 23 — Times Beach, Missouri, Declared Uninhabitable (1982)

December 24 — The Christmas Tree

December 25 — European Rabbits Introduced to Australia (1859)

December 26 — UN Convention to Combat Desertification Began (1996)

December 27 — Second Voyage of the Beagle Began (1831)

December 28 — Endangered Species Act Enacted (1973)

December 29 — Convention on Biological Diversity Began (1993)

December 30 — Six Geese A-Laying

December 31 — John Denver, Singer-Songwriter and Conservationist, Born (1943)

This Month in Conservation

March 1
Yellowstone National Park Established (1872)
March 2
Theodore Geisel, or Dr. Seuss, Born (1904)
March 3
World Wildlife Day and Creation of CITES (1973)
March 3
Isle Royale National Park Authorized (1931)
March 4
Hot Springs National Park Established (1921)
March 5
Lynn Margulis, Evolutionary Biologist, Born (1938)
March 6
Martha Burton Williamson, Pioneering Malacologist, Born (1843)
March 7
Luther Burbank Born (1849)
March 8
Everett Horton Patents the Telescoping Fishing Rod (1887)
March 9
The Turbot War Begins (1995)
March 10
Cape Lookout National Seashore Established (1966)
March 11
Save the Redwoods League Founded (1918)
March 12
Girl Scouts Founded (1912)
March 12
Charles Young, First African American National Park Superintendent, Born (1864)
March 13
National Elephant Day, Thailand
March 14
First National Wildlife Refuge Created (1903)
March 15
Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, Born (1874)
March 16
Amoco Cadiz Runs Aground (1978)
March 17
St. Patrick and Ireland’s Snakes
March 18
Nation’s First Wildlife Refuge Created (1870)
March 19
When the Swallows Return to Capistrano
March 20
“Our Common Future” Published (1987)
March 21
International Day of Forests
March 22
World Water Day
March 23
Sitka National Historical Park Created (1910)
March 24
John Wesley Powell, Western Explorer, Born (1834)
March 25
Norman Borlaug, Father of the Green Revolution, Born (1914)
March 26
Marjorie Harris Carr, Pioneering Florida Conservationist, Born (1915)
March 26
Kruger National Park Established (1898)
March 27
Trans-Alaska Pipeline Begun (1975)
March 28
Joseph Bazalgette, London’s Sewer King, Born (1819)
March 29
Niagara Falls Stops Flowing (1848)
March 30
The United States Buys Alaska (1867)
March 31
Al Gore, Environmental Activist and U.S. Vice President, Born (1948)
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