1932 - Environment

Environment

A dike closed May 28 after 9 years of work reclaims the Zuider Zee (Ijsselmeer) to create new Dutch farmland.

"Every European nation has a definite land policy and has had one for generations," Franklin Roosevelt tells the Democratic convention. "We have none. Having none, we face a future of soil erosion and timber famine" (see Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933; Soil Erosion Service, 1933).

Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, created by the United States and Canada, embraces 22-year-old Glacier National Park.

Horticulturist-garden expert Gertrude Jekyll dies at her home in Godalming, Surrey, December 8 at age 89.

An earthquake in China's Gansu province December 25 leaves an estimated 70,000 dead.