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theepochtimes.com | Michael Wing
6/20/2025Updated: 6/20/2025In the beginning, there were the rolling hills, the ample creeks, and the lush grasslands that sprawled as far as the horizon. When the Van Newkirk family first arrived in Western Nebraska in 1886 and was granted land through the Homestead Act, they thought they had found paradise. Surprisingly little has changed over a century later. Massive chunks of these regions, called the Nebraska Sandhills, are still virtually untouched.
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theepochtimes.com | Michael Wing
6/17/2025|Updated: 6/17/2025A day trip adventure to a Rocky Mountain glacier last month turned Tyler Wall into something of a seasoned wildlife photographer after it led to an encounter with a huge grizzly bear. “We did our little tour, and then we were coming home,” Wall told The Epoch Times, speaking of the first getaway he and his girlfriend took to the Columbia Icefield, northwest of Banff.
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theepochtimes.com | Michael Wing
6/15/2025|Updated: 6/15/2025Most Canadians reject the idea that they’re living on “stolen” indigenous land, a recent survey suggests. With older Canadians comprising the bulk of the majority, 52 percent of those polled across the country say they do not believe they live on stolen indigenous land. Meanwhile, 27 percent think they do, while 21 percent either declined to answer or said they didn’t know.
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theepochtimes.com | Michael Wing
After a day of heavy rain, prospectors David and Derek DeCook arrived at the site of an extinct 100-million-year-old volcanic crater in rural Arkansas—from which David would pluck his largest diamond ever. Excess rainfall in the spring meant the topsoil above this ancient volcanic pipe formation would be washed off. That might reveal some of the sparkling diamonds that Crater of Diamonds State Park in Pike County has become famous for.
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theepochtimes.com | Michael Wing
AD6/10/2025Updated: 6/10/2025The backstory to the July full moon brims with summer folklore. While our colonial ancestors talked about corn being “knee-high” in July, Native American tribes once drew from seasonal signs, such as the ripening of strawberries, and these cultures crafted myriad moon names. Recorded by early explorers, one moniker in July stuck—we still call it the Buck Moon. When and Where to View the Buck MoonIn 2025, the full Buck Moon will Weeks from now, the Buck Moon returns.
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epochtimes.fr | Michael Wing
Un jour, à la fin du mois de mai, alors qu’elle se rendait à Anchorage pour photographier la faune, l’institutrice Amy Bragg a fait une rencontre fortuite, d’une probabilité d’une sur mille, avec un trio de jeunes inconnus aux genoux flageolants sur le bord de la route : des triplés d’orignaux. Cette rare rencontre avec les trois petits a donné lieu à plusieurs photos spectaculaires d’une famille d’orignaux et à une histoire à raconter.
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theepochtimes.com | Michael Wing
AD6/8/2025Updated: 6/8/2025Over $38,000 in fines have been waived and convictions set aside for a group of people from an Ontario Amish community who were convicted for not using the ArriveCan app during COVID-19 lockdowns. Lawyers with The Democracy Fund (TDF) won the case after seven months of negotiations and multiple court appearances on behalf of the group known to avoid modern technology due to their faith.
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3 weeks ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Michael Wing
Anchorage resident Amy Bragg captured close-up shots of moose triplets with their mother, who had given birth just hours earlier. Anchorage resident Amy Bragg captured close-up shots of moose triplets with their mother, who had given birth just hours earlier. Courtesy of Amy BraggOne day in late May, driving in Anchorage to photograph wildlife, schoolteacher Amy Bragg had a one-in-a-thousand chance encounter with a trio of wobbly-kneed young strangers by the roadside—moose triplets.
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3 weeks ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Michael Wing
AD6/6/2025Updated: 6/6/2025The violet-green swallow may not be the rarest bird in the world, but its colours sing when they catch the sunlight. Birder Brad Vissia, from West Kelowna, B.C., often observes them flocking on power lines, but only at a distance. He yearned to capture their sparkling, iridescent colours up close through his camera. So when a violet-green swallow happened to land on a rock beside him, Vissia didn’t miss his chance.
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theepochtimes.com | Michael Wing
AD6/1/2025Updated: 6/1/2025Out-of-control wildfires in Western Canada have forced some 17,000 Manitobans to evacuate while Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moes has asked for help from several U.S. states. Both provinces have declared a state of emergency as hot and dry weather is expected to fuel the blazes in the coming days. Michael WingEditor and WriterMichael Wing is a writer and editor based in Calgary, Canada, where he was born and educated in the arts.
