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Orange lights of Babb illuminate clouds as the Milky Way is visible above Chief Mountain. COURTESY JOHN ASHLEY
THE BOOK
John Ashley’s new book “Glacier National Park After Dark” is on sale for $29.95. You can purchase it at area bookstores or inside the park. You can also order it online at www.johnashleyfineart.com.
Waterton parks as the first international transboundary dark sky preserve. Since 2006, the International Dark-Sky Associ- ation has certified more than two-dozen parks around the world as dark sky pre- serves. To obtain that certification, a park must reduce the amount of light pollution it produces by installing dark sky-friendly lighting, which only illuminates a space below, not above a horizon line.
Mark Biel, national resource program manager for Glacier, has been heading up
SEE IT FOR YOURSELF
Glacier National Park hosts a night sky viewing from 10 p.m. to midnight at the Apgar Transit Center parking lot on select dates during the summer, including from July 22 – 26 and 29 – 31. Astronomers are on site to help visitors take in the sky with powerful telescopes. Binoculars are encouraged and the event is dependent on weather and sky conditions. For more informa- tion visit www.nps.gov/glac.
the initiative and just completed a light- ing assessment of the park last week. He said the assessment took three years and officials were surprised at just how many light sources are in the park. Now, the park will look at ways it can reduce its light pollution and install new dark sky- friendly lights in the future. That lighting installation plan will be part of Glacier and Waterton national parks’ joint dark sky application, which Biel said will be completed later this year.
“A dark night sky is an overlooked and valuable resource here because a large percentage of Americans have never even seen the Milky Way, but they can see it from their national parks,” he said. “You can see what the world looked like before the industrial revolution.”
Ashley said efforts like the dark sky preserve designation for Glacier are great, but added that it will take a regional effort to protect the darkness. He said commu- nities around the park will also have to
turn off or dim their lights as well and he hopes that his new book can illustrate what is at stake. He also said that there are economic and health benefits to preserv- ing a dark sky. Environmentally friendly lighting is known to be cheaper in the long run and there are documented health ben- efits to sleeping in true darkness.
“The good thing is that decreasing our light pollution is as easy as turning off a light,” he said.
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