Common name: American Toad (Information in this Species Page was compiled by Bobby Galonski in Biology 220W, Spring 2003, at Penn State New Kensington) Bufo americanus is a very common, nocturnally active species of toad.
THE BATTLE OF BLUE WATER. S. Harney, attacked and destroyed a Lakota village located three miles north on Blue Creek. fight became known as the Battle of Blue Water, sometimes the Battle of Ash Hollow after the nearby landmark, or the Harney Massacre. The army's attack avenged the Indian annihilation of Lt. John Grattan's command near Fort. Laramie in 1854.
Blue Lake, New Zealand. A 2011 study by the Auckland-based National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research found some of the clearest waters on record in the small Blue Lake, part of Nelson Lakes National Park in New Zealandâs Southern Alps, accessible from the village of Saint Arnaud.