Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
The Grand Canyon is officially an International Dark Sky Park. Here's what that means
If
you're planning on touring the Grand Canyon National Park during the
daytime, reconsider. The park's got one of the world's best night skies. The
park was just certified as an International Dark Sky Park, which means
it's got a "distinguished quality of starry nights," according to the
International Dark-Sky Association. That's no easy rank to score. The certification process
has taken nearly three years, during which time the park has been
converting most of its 5,000 light fixtures to "dark-sky compliant." In
the next few years, the park said, 90% of Grand Canyon lights will
become night-sky friendly. One of the association's greater
goals is combating light pollution and protecting the night sky. It has
been working to identify the "negative impacts of artificial light at
night on human health, wildlife and climate change."Dark sky friendly lights are fixtures that minimize glares and reduce light trespass and sky glow...MORE
Mercy. Light can "trespass", cause "pollution" and impact "climate change". It can even cause "sky glow" at night. Now I've seen women glow at night, but...uh...I thought that was a good thing. Hank Williams would have had nothing to do with this. He wanted "no more darkness" and just wanted to see the light. Here, give him a listen:
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