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9th High Mountain Earth Day CITO Cache In Trash Out Event

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Hidden : Saturday, April 25, 2015
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CELEBRATE EARTH DAY!


Event starts at 10AM, ends at 1PM or when the trash bags are full and returned to the curb. Bring your own gloves.


Garbage bags and donuts will be provided. everyone who arrives at the event will receive milkweed seeds. Milk-weed plants help feed the monarch butterfly!

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...."





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