Posts filtered by tags: Blanding[x]
Royal Canadian Mint New Coins: 6-Coin Specimen Set – Blanding’s Turtle + Rose-Silver Coin – With All My Heart23h ago ( February 23, 2021 at 12:36 PM ) Royal Canadian Mint released two new coins. First, this 6-Coin Specimen Set – Blanding’s Turtle (2021) features a Blanding’s turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) sunning itself on a log in its wetland habitat. The obverse features the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt. Get yours today for $59.95!
This second new release coin is this Rose-Silver Coin – With All My Heart – Mintage: 1,500 (2021). Minted in high-relief to almost jeweler’s grade perfection, a delicate lace pattern ...Tags: Shopping, Canada, Elizabeth Ii, Susanna, Canadian Deals & Coupons, Canadian Discount Coupons Canada, Blanding, Royal Canadian Mint, Royal Canadian Mint Canada 140 people like this. Like Royal Canadian Mint New Coins: 6-Coin Specimen Set – Blanding’s Turtle + The Black LoyalistsFebruary 3, 2021 at 11:30 AM Royal Canadian Mint has released two new coins. First, this 6-Coin Specimen Set – Blanding’s Turtle (2021) features a Blanding’s turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) sunning itself on a log in its wetland habitat. The obverse features the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt. Get yours today for $59.95!
This Pure Silver Coin – Commemorating Black History: The Black Loyalists – Mintage: 5,500 (2021) features the armorial bearings of the Black Loyalist Heritage Society granted in ...Tags: Shopping, Canada, Elizabeth Ii, Susanna, Canadian Deals & Coupons, Canadian Discount Coupons Canada, Blanding, Royal Canadian Mint, Royal Canadian Mint Canada, Black Loyalist Heritage Society, Canadian Heraldic Authority, Darrel E Kennedy, Assiniboine Herald 104 people like this. Like How the Navajo Nation won a hard-earned political voice in UtahAugust 6, 2020 at 6:00 AM New districts were adopted just in time for the 2018 midterm elections and could impact November’s electionThis story was published in collaboration with the Navajo TimesDriving south from Moab, the desert gives way to rolling piñon and juniper forest interspersed with farm fields and pastures. The two towns, Monticello and Blanding, are plaited neatly on the “Mormon grid”, streets running exactly north-south and east-west, with equal-size blocks in between. The homes are modest but neat and wel...Tags: Utah, US news, Moab, Native Americans, Navajo Nation, Monticello, Blanding, US voting rights 6 people like this. Like Moose, other Minnesota species need federal protection, says group suing Trump administrationNovember 20, 2019 at 7:56 PM Several Minnesota species deemed at risk include the moose, golden-winged warbler and Blanding's turtle.Tags: Minnesota, Moose, Trump, Blanding 30 people like this. Like Conservation group to sue Trump Administration over lack of action on endangered speciesNovember 20, 2019 at 7:21 PM Several Minnesota species deemed at risk include the moose, golden-winged warbler and Blanding's turtle.Tags: Minnesota, Blanding, Trump Administration 38 people like this. Like Touring restored wetlands at a Wisconsin nature conservancyNovember 1, 2019 at 11:30 AM The village of Williams Bay, Wisconsin hasn’t changed much since Harold Friestad was a kid, he told me as we walked through Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy (KNC). Now almost 80 and the conservancy’s chairman, Friestad is proud of being a factor in stunting the small town’s growth. He was president when the village board bought 231 acres of lakefront property in 1989 to create KNC. “What I want on my tombstone,” he said as our sneakers sank into the wetlands, “is, ‘Because of Harold, there will n...Tags: Design, Interview, Environment, Features, Wildlife, Conservation, Wisconsin, Tour, Nature / Environment, Parks / Wildlife, Harold, Killian, Blanding, Geneva Lake, KNC, Williams Bay 75 people like this. Like Freshwater turtles navigate using the sunNovember 9, 2018 at 3:04 AM Blanding's turtle hatchlings need only the sun as their compass to guide them on their way to the nearest wetland -- and a place of safety. This is according to John Dean Krenz of Minnesota State University in the US, lead author of a study in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. The study focused on how this freshwater turtle, native to the US and Canada, is purposefully able to travel in a relatively straight line once it has hatched.Tags: US, Canada, Springer, Minnesota State University, Blanding, John Dean Krenz 27 people like this. Like Utah Scenic Highway 95 Hanksville UtahOctober 4, 2018 at 2:10 PM Scenic Hwy 95 runs West from Blanding to Hanksville in Utah. This is mostly BLM Bureau of Land Management with free and open camping. The middle section with the Colorado River is Glen Canyon Nat. Rec Area US Park Service that used to have free campingTags: Travel, Utah, Colorado River, Blanding, BLM Bureau of Land Management, Hanksville, Utah Scenic Highway 95 Hanksville Utah, Glen Canyon Nat Rec Area US Park Service 22 people like this. Like Dry Utah town to keep alcohol ban despite tourist influxNovember 8, 2017 at 3:06 PM SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — One of Utah’s last “dry” communities will keep its prohibition on alcohol sales The southeastern city of Blanding appeared to vote down Tuesday a proposal to allow beer and wine sales for the first time in more than 80 years. Unofficial results Wednesday showed residents in the town of 3,500 […]Tags: Utah, News, Salt Lake City, Nation & World, Blanding 1 people like this. Like Booze on the ballot: Utah dry town mulls allowing alcoholNovember 5, 2017 at 9:44 AM BLANDING, Utah (AP) — The rural Utah city of Blanding, one of the last “dry” communities in the Mormon-majority state, will ask voters Tuesday whether to allow beer and wine sales in town for the first time in more than 80 years. Even though most locals are Mormon and their faith teaches its members to […]Tags: Travel, Utah, Business, News, Food & Drink, Nation & World, Blanding, Nation & World Politics, BLANDING Utah 106 people like this. Like Arizona Monument Valley PageApril 25, 2017 at 1:10 AM Sunday 23rd April 2017 Blanding to Page 215 miles We left Blanding about 8.15 hoping to make good time to Monument Valley and be there by 10.00am Wasnt too bad only stopped once at Mexican Hat for photos of a rock that lookTags: Travel, Monument Valley, Blanding, Arizona Monument Valley Page 20 people like this. Like Donald Trump's Election Could Be A Windfall For Virginia DemocratsMarch 29, 2017 at 7:34 PM function onPlayerReadyVidible(e){'undefined'!=typeof HPTrack&&HPTrack.Vid.Vidible_track(e)}!function(e,i){if(e.vdb_Player){if('object'==typeof commercial_video){var a='',o='m.fwsitesection='+commercial_video.site_and_category;if(a+=o,commercial_video['package']){var c='&m.fwkeyvalues=sponsorship%3D'+commercial_video['package'];a+=c}e.setAttribute('vdb_params',a)}i(e.vdb_Player)}else{var t=arguments.callee;setTimeout(function(){t(e,i)},0)}}(document.getElementById('vidible_1'),onPlayerReady...Tags: News, Virginia, Hillary Clinton, House, New Jersey, Republican, University Of Virginia, Donald Trump, Charlottesville, Huffington Post, Elise, Bernie Sanders, Richmond, Clinton, Trump, Democratic Party 25 people like this. Like Eaglets Hatch on Live Minnesota DNR’s EagleCamMarch 20, 2017 at 5:47 PM Minnesota Eagles Minnesota Department of Natural Resources USA -(Ammoland.com)- The eagles have landed, or hatched, and just in time for the 40th anniversary of the state’s Nongame Wildlife Program, which is part of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.The EagleCam is one of the ways the program helps wildlife conservation and species recovery efforts in Minnesota.This year, three eaglets are being viewed around the world as they’re raised by a banded female that returns to the sa...Tags: Minnesota, Guns, Bald Eagles, Mother, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Minnesota Department, Raptor Center, Conservation News, Blanding, Nongame Wildlife Program, Legislative Citizen Commission, Prairie International Birding Trail, Nongame Wildlife Program Consider 133 people like this. Like Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Concerts Celebrate Jazz of the ‘50s and ‘60sJanuary 26, 2017 at 10:42 AM Jazz at Lincoln Center continues its season introspective, celebrating 100 years of recorded jazz, with two unique concerts featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Jazz of the ’50s: Overflowing with Style on February 17 -18, and Free to Be: Jazz of the ’60s & Beyond on March 17-18 at Rose Theater. In addition to performing new and classic arrangements, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will be led by two of their own – trombonist Chris Crenshaw, music director a...Tags: New York, Israel, America, Broadway, New Orleans, Jazz, Ornette Coleman, Casper, Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis, CLEVELAND Ohio, Lincoln Center Orchestra, CRENSHAW, Rose Theater, Frederick P Rose Hall, Juilliard School Wynton Marsalis and his Quintet perform at Wyoming Seminary FridayNovember 8, 2016 at 1:16 PM The Wynton Marsalis Quintet (photo: Luigi Beverelli)
One of the greatest living jazz composers and musicians is bringing his renowned performance reputation and his positive message to the Wyoming Valley.
Wynton Marsalis and his Quintet performs at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 11 at Wyoming Seminary’s Kirby Center for Creative Arts. Marsalis, the managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and its orchestra, is an advocate for expanding a global community through jazz education, a...Tags: Israel, Wyoming, Jazz, Lincoln Center, Marsalis, Wynton, Wynton Marsalis, Lincoln Center Orchestra, Cab Calloway, Northeastern Pennsylvania, Walter Blanding, Blanding, Luigi Beverelli, Wyoming Seminary 82 people like this. Like Canada: Update: Wind Farms vs Blanding's Turtles – ERT Decision Stands - Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLPJuly 15, 2016 at 10:27 AM The period for filing an appeal of the Environmental Review Tribunal ("ERT") decision on the Ostrander Point Wind Farm has passed.Tags: News, Canada, Blanding, Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP 13 people like this. Like Canada: Wind Farms Vs Blanding's Turtles – A Final Decision At Last? - Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLPJuly 1, 2016 at 12:10 PM On June 6, 2016 the Environmental Review Tribunal released its decision determining the appropriate statutory remedy respecting the Director's approval of the construction and operation of a nine turbine wind farm at Ostrander Point.Tags: News, Canada, Blanding, Willms, Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP 23 people like this. Like Oldest well-documented Blanding's Turtle recaptured at reserve at age 83May 25, 2016 at 12:16 PM A female Blanding's turtle believed to be at least 83 years old was captured at a forest reserve this week. Researchers say it is the oldest well-documented Blanding's turtle and one of the oldest-known freshwater turtles.Tags: Blanding 24 people like this. Like Oldest well-documented Blanding's turtle recaptured at U-M reserve at age 83May 25, 2016 at 12:14 PM A female Blanding's turtle believed to be at least 83 years old was captured at a University of Michigan forest reserve this week. Researchers say it is the oldest well-documented Blanding's turtle and one of the oldest-known freshwater turtles.Tags: Ecology, University Of Michigan, Blanding 48 people like this. Like Minnesota Question of the Week: Nongame Wildlife CheckoffFebruary 19, 2016 at 11:56 AM Bats: Non-Game Wildlife Minnesota Department of Natural Resources St. Paul, MN -(AmmoLand.com)- Q: Now is the time of year when Minnesota residents can contribute to the DNR’s Nongame Wildlife checkoff fund on their tax forms. What is this money used for and how does it help wildlife?A: Donations made to this fund are used by the DNR’s Nongame Wildlife Program for a number of statewide efforts to help protect and manage more than 800 species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, b...Tags: Minnesota, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Carrol Henderson, Conservation News, Blanding, Nongame Wildlife Program, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources MNDNR, Game Check Station 91 people like this. Like Marsalis and JLCO play marathon, with a little help from BasieJanuary 24, 2016 at 7:43 PM It was billed as a “Battle Royale,” but the matchup between the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Count Basie Orchestra on Saturday night turned out to be more love fest than cutting contest.
Which had its virtues. How often, after all, do you get to hear two sprawling jazz organizations crowded onto the stage of Orchestra Hall, each exploring specific facets of a vast repertoire? Though it would have been fun to behold these bands going after one another — and to see which one was left...Tags: John Lennon, Paul Mccartney, New Orleans, Cuba, Jacksons, Donny Hathaway, Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Ellis, Duke Ellington, Crescent City, Lincoln Center Orchestra, Gardner, Nash, Hathaway, Roberta Flack Blanding's turtle babies discovered in Dakota County parkDecember 31, 1969 at 7:00 PM Eleven hatchlings, each the size of a silver dollar, were found Tuesday by park officials. [Author: Erin Adler]Tags: Dakota County, Erin Adler, Blanding |