2015CALENDAR
Cover Photo: White-tailed deer and fawn
Great egret
R
ivers are the veins and arteries of the natural world, supporting a wondrous and complex web of life.
From a majestic bald eagle skillfully fishing, to colorful brook trout in their underwater home, to a playful otter family on the stream bank, this year’s calendar celebrates the vivid and beautiful wildlife that rely on clean, healthy rivers. American Rivers protects wild rivers, restores damaged rivers, and conserves clean water for people, wildlife, and nature. Thanks to the support of thousands of caring and concerned people like you, we have enjoyed four decades of success. Since 1973, we’ve helped protect thousands of river miles North American beaver from pollution...won federal protection for our nation’s most spectacular Wild and Scenic Rivers...mobilized public action through our annual America’s Most Endangered Rivers® campaign...and pioneered ways to restore rivers by removing outdated and unsafe dams. Despite our progress, many rivers are still at risk. Climate change is reducing stream flows in some areas and increasing flooding in others. Demand for water exceeds supply in far too many communities. Polluted runoff from our streets and sewage overflows from outdated systems foul our rivers and streams. Oil and gas extraction, mining, logging—all pose challenges to the health of our rivers and the wildlife they nourish.
So please help us preserve the legacy of wildlife celebrated in your 2015 Calendar for generations to come…by supporting American Rivers today! www.AmericanRivers.org/RiverWildlife
Brown bear and cubs
JANUARY2O15
DECEMBER 2014 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.
TUESDAY
MONDAY
4
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11
12 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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SATURDAY
New Year’s Day
—EDWARD ABBEY
SUNDAY
FRIDAY
THURSDAY
FEBRUARY 2015 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
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WEDNESDAY
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JAN 6
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Mallard duck and ducklings
FEBRUARY2O15 The face of the river, in time, became a wonderful book. . .which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it had uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.
JANUARY 2015 S M T W T 1 4 5 6 7 8 11 12 13 14 15 18 19 20 21 22 25 26 27 28 29
F 2 9 16 23 30
S 3 10 17 24 31
MARCH 2015 S M T W 1 2 3 4 8 9 10 11 15 16 17 18 22 23 24 25 29 30 31
T F S 5 6 7 12 13 14 19 20 21 26 27 28
—MARK TWAIN, LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI
SUNDAY
MONDAY
1
TUESDAY
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WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
FEB 3
4
5
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7
Valentine’s Day
8
9 Presidents’ Day
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11
12
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24
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Ash Wednesday
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Moose
MARCH2O15 SUNDAY
FEBRUARY 2015 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
TUESDAY
MONDAY
FRIDAY
THURSDAY
WEDNESDAY
APRIL 2015 S M T 5 6 7 12 13 14 19 20 21 26 27 28
W 1 8 15 22 29
T F S 2 3 4 9 10 11 16 17 18 23 24 25 30
SATURDAY
Ash Wednesday
1
2
3
4
6
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7
Daylight Saving Time begins
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MAR 9
10
11
12
St. Patrick’s Day
15
13
14
Spring begins
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American Rivers Founded (1973)
22 Palm Sunday
23
There’s a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.
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—ROBERTA FLACK
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American bullfrog
APRIL2O15
MARCH 2015 S M T W 1 2 3 4 8 9 10 11 15 16 17 18 22 23 24 25 29 30 31
I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water...has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes…
FRIDAY
THURSDAY
WEDNESDAY
MAY 2015 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
SATURDAY
Good Friday
—RODERICK HAIG-BROWN
Passover begins at sundown
1
TUESDAY
MONDAY
SUNDAY
T F S 5 6 7 12 13 14 19 20 21 26 27 28
2
3
4
Easter
5
6
12
13
APR 7
8
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Earth Day
19
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26
27
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Red fox pup
MAY2O15 SUNDAY
Boundaries don’t protect rivers, people do.
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
—BRAD ARROWSMITH
TUESDAY
MONDAY
THURSDAY
WEDNESDAY
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8
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5
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Mother’s Day
Memorial Day
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31
MAY APRIL 2015 S M T 5 6 7 12 13 14 19 20 21 26 27 28
W 1 8 15 22 29
T F S 2 3 4 9 10 11 16 17 18 23 24 25 30
JUNE 2015 S M T 1 2 7 8 9 14 15 16 21 22 23 28 29 30
W T F S 3 4 5 6 10 11 12 13 17 18 19 20 24 25 26 27
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River otter pup
JUNE2O15 TUESDAY
MONDAY
1
SUNDAY
7
MAY 2015 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
8
2
FRIDAY
THURSDAY
WEDNESDAY
3
4
JULY 2015 S M T 5 6 7 12 13 14 19 20 21 26 27 28
W 1 8 15 22 29
T 2 9 16 23 30
F 3 10 17 24 31
S 4 11 18 25
SATURDAY
5
6
JUN 9
10
11
12
13
Ramadan begins at sundown
Flag Day
14
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21
22
Summer begins Father’s Day
16
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The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.
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—LYNN NOEL
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Bald eagle
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Tim Lumley
JULY2O15
JUNE 2015 S M T 1 2 7 8 9 14 15 16 21 22 23 28 29 30
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt — it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.
FRIDAY
THURSDAY
WEDNESDAY
W T F S 3 4 5 6 10 11 12 13 17 18 19 20 24 25 26 27
AUGUST 2015 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
SATURDAY Independence Day
—HAL BOYLE
SUNDAY
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TUESDAY
MONDAY
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27
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JUL 7
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Gray wolf pups
AUGUST2O15
Rivers have what man most respects and longs for in his own life—a capacity for renewal and replenishment, continual energy, creativity, cleansing.
SATURDAY
—JOHN KAUFFMAN, A LOOK AT OUR NORTH ATLANTIC RIVERS
SUNDAY
TUESDAY
MONDAY
2
3
9
10
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23
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30
31
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5
1
FRIDAY
THURSDAY
WEDNESDAY
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AUG 11
12
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JULY 2015 S M T 5 6 7 12 13 14 19 20 21 26 27 28
W 1 8 15 22 29
T 2 9 16 23 30
F 3 10 17 24 31
S 4 11 18 25
SEPTEMBER 2015 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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American bison
SEPTEMBER2O15 TUESDAY
2
OCTOBER 2015 S M T W T 1 4 5 6 7 8 11 12 13 14 15 18 19 20 21 22 25 26 27 28 29
FRIDAY
THURSDAY
WEDNESDAY
1
MONDAY
SUNDAY
AUGUST 2015 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
3
F 2 9 16 23 30
S 3 10 17 24 31
SATURDAY
4
5
Labor Day
6
7
Rosh Hashana begins at sundown
13
14
SEP 8
9
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11
12
15
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Yom Kippur begins at sundown
20
27
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29
Autumn begins
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I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers. —CHARLES KURALT, THE MAGIC OF RIVERS
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Mountain lion cub
OCTOBER2O15
SEPTEMBER 2015 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
FRIDAY
THURSDAY
NOVEMBER 2015 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
SATURDAY
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act Signed (1968)
—JOHN MUIR
TUESDAY
MONDAY
SUNDAY
4
5 Columbus Day
1
WEDNESDAY
2
3
OCT 6
7
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Clean Water Act Signed (1972)
Halloween
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Common loon and chick
NOVEMBER2O15 SUNDAY
TUESDAY
MONDAY
OCTOBER 2015 S M T W T 1 4 5 6 7 8 11 12 13 14 15 18 19 20 21 22 25 26 27 28 29
S 3 10 17 24 31
FRIDAY
THURSDAY
WEDNESDAY
F 2 9 16 23 30
DECEMBER 2015 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
SATURDAY
Daylight Saving Time ends
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Veterans Day
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15
NOV 9
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Thanksgiving Day
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To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
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—BARRY LOPEZ
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Brook Trout
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Pat Clayton
DECEMBER2O15 TUESDAY
—LAURA GILPIN, THE RIO GRANDE: RIVER OF DESTINY
FRIDAY
THURSDAY
WEDNESDAY
1
MONDAY
SUNDAY
A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.
2
SATURDAY
4
3
5
Hanukkah begins at sundown
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13
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DEC 8
9
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Winter begins
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27
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New Year’s Eve
Endangered Species Act Signed (1973)
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Kwanzaa begins
Christmas Day
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NOVEMBER 2015 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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JANUARY 2016 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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