Guest Post by Stewart Aitchison Most of the proposed 1.9 million-acre Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah is blessed with extraordinary dark skies. For at least 12,000 years, from paleo-hunter/gatherers to modern farmers, ranchers… Read more
Grad Student Helps Acadia with Dark Sky Bid
Guest post by Locher Grove It’s not easy to find dark skies along the East Coast of the continental United States. Development and expansion have increased light pollution along the seaboard, disrupting ecosystems and stargazing. … Read more
Night Lights and Prosperity Don’t Always Go Hand in Hand
By guest writer Chris Kyba North Korea is famously dark compared to South Korea and China at night, and images like the one above are often used to demonstrate the consequences of its “unenlightened” policies. I certainly wouldn’t… Read more
You’re Never too Young (or Old) to Become a Dark Sky Advocate
By high school senior and dark sky advocate Jessica Elliott When I was in the third grade, my class took a trip to a wetlands to see the way Earth is interconnected with the animals… Read more