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Animal Days
Animal Holidays for October 2021
Some of these holidays are hilarious! Don’t forget to hug your sheep on October 30th!
Month:
- Bat Appreciation Month
- Squirrel Awareness Month
- World Animal Month
2021 Weeks:
- National Wolf Awareness Week - October 17-23, 2021 (Third Full Week of October Sunday to Saturday)
2021 Days: (Date Order)
- International Raccoon Appreciation Day - October 1
- World Farm Animals Day - October 2
- Butterfly and Hummingbird Day - October 3
- Blessing of the Animals at the Cathedral Day - October 4
- World Animal Day - October 4
- National Badger Day - October 6
- National Salmon Day - October 8
- International Sloth Day - October 20
- Reptile Awareness Day - October 21
- National Mule Day - October 26
- World Lemur Day - October 29, 2021 (Last Friday in October)
- Hug a Sheep Day - October 30, 2021 (Last Saturday in October)
Salmon are a fish well known in the northwest of the United States. They are in danger of being on the brink of extinction. There are currently 14 species of salmon and steelhead in the northwest and they are "deemed endangered and are protected under the Endangered Species Act, 10 are lagging recovery goals and five of those are considered “in crisis,” according to the 2020 State of Salmon in Watersheds report," which was released in early 2021. These fish are a critical food source to at least 138 species, from insects to orcas.
Human population encroachment and development has reduced fish habitat - this includes development along shore lines, dams, sea walls and other types of bulkheads. Global warming is also a contributor.
According to Sam Mace, the Inland Northwest director of Save Our Wild Salmon, a coalition of groups committed to preserving salmon in the Columbia-Snake River Basin, thousands of steelhead trout were expected to run in a main tributary of the Snake River but there were barely 300 of them, she said. We have work to do.
Step Up
Challenge Yourself
So Fall is in the air here in the United States! The days get shorter and cooler as we get closer to the end of the year. So what can you do to make an environmental difference this Fall? In our yard we always have tons of leaves falling off of our trees – so why don’t you mow your leaves versus raking them. This will reduce bags of plastics full of leaves and leaf mowing will provide natural decomposition and feed the soil. It also provides habitat for small insects. So maybe take a different approach this year after you have done a leaf jump!
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