GC83KQK 13th High Mountain Earth Day CITO (Cache In Trash Out Event) in New Jersey, United States created by weathernowcast

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A cache by weathernowcast Message this owner

Hidden : Saturday, April 27, 2019

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Geocache Description:

27 April 2019, 10:00 - 12:00

CELEBRATE EARTH DATE

Event runs from 10 am to noon Saturday April 27th, 2019 Garbage bags and donuts will be provided. everyone who arrives at the event will receive an event button

Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin announced that in the spring of 1970 there would be a nationwide grassroots demonstration on the environment.

Senator Nelson first proposed the nationwide environmental protest to thrust the environment onto the national agenda.” "It was a gamble," he recalls, "but it worked."

Five months before the first April 22 Earth Day, on Sunday,November 30, 1969, The New York Times carried a lengthy article by Gladwin Hill reporting on the rising tide of environmental events: "Rising concern about the environmental crisis is sweeping the nation's campuses with an intensity that may be on its way to eclipsing student discontent over the war in Vietnam...a national day of observance of environmental problems...is being planned for next spring...when a nationwide environmental 'teach-in'...coordinated from the office of Senator Gaylord Nelson is planned...."