Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, February 18, 1909. The first North American Conservation Conference.

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, February 18, 1909. The first North Amer...: 

Thursday, February 18, 1909. The first North American Conservation Conference.

President Theodore Roosevelt convened the first North American Conservation Conference at the White House.  

The conference was between delegates of the US, Canada, and Mexico.

Oddly enough, Wallace Stegner was born on this day as well, in Lake Mills, Iowa.