Good morning, Whitewater
There’s a Whitewater-University Tech Park Board meeting today at 2:00 p.m. There’s no agenda available online.
The Wisconsin Historical Society reports that on this date in 1941
….the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge was established after a 20 year struggle by conservationists. The refuge is over 21,000 acres, encompasses the Horicon Marsh, the largest freshwater cattail marsh in the United States, and is home to over 223 species of birds and other wildlife. [Source: History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers edited by Sarah Davis McBride, p. 6 and Horicon National Wildlife Refuge]
Here’s today’s almanac —
| Almanac | ||
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, July 16, 2009 | Sunrise | Sunset |
| Official Time | 05:30 AM | 08:30 PM |
| Civil Twilight | 04:56 AM | 09:04 PM |
| Tomorrow | 05:31 AM | 08:30 PM |
| Tomorrow will be: | 1 minute shorter | |
| Amount of sunlight: | 15h 0m | |
| Amount of daylight: | 16h 08m | |
| Moon phase: | Waning crescent | |