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Haaland's Utah Visit Leaves Her Much To Ponder Over Bears Ears, Grand Staircase Boundaries

For the third time in less than five years an Interior secretary has visited southern Utah to try to grasp the significance of a landscape with a cultural heritage that reaches back thousands of years, one that also entombs paleontological remains millions of years old, in a bid to determine the appropriate size of two national monuments.

National Park Service And Illuminating Engineering Society To Develop Night Sky-Friendly Lighting Standards

What better way to celebrate International Dark Sky Week than with and announcement that the National Park Service is teaming up with Illuminating Engineering Society to develop night sky-friendly lighting standards that will improve outdoor lighting in national parks without affecting your ability to stargaze.

Celebrate International Dark Sky Week In A National Park

“Half the park is after dark.” April 5 – 12 marks International Dark Sky Week 2021, a celebration of the vast, wondrous, starry sky above us. Perhaps you are even planning a visit to a National Park Service unit that's been designated an International Dark Sky Park. This special week also emphasizes how light pollution hampers our ability to see the stars and produces harmful consequences to all living things.