Hello Tweeters,

The International Dark Skies is a great organization doing education and
giving people, both home owners and businesses, cost effective and doable
options to their light polluting fixtures.

Largely the folks who have been tooting the horn for dark skies are amateur
astronomers. I am also an amateur astronomer as well as a birder so I use
optics by day and by night. Makes me zombie eyed at times. *grin*

Check out the url posted below. There is lots of useful information on
their pages and links to the International Dark- Sky Association (IDA).

http://www.scn.org/darksky/

Regards,

Valerie Shahan
Lummi Bay
Valerie.Shahan at wwu.edu


--Original Message-----
From: Diann MacRae [mailto:tvulture at vei.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:42 PM
To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: RE: Night Lighting in Buildings Kills Birds - abcnews.com story

Hi, Melissa and Tweets

Its a slow, slow battle trying to dim the lights. Dark Skies Northwest is a
regional affiliate of the International Dark-Sky Association. We are a
small group and just had our second annual conference in Portland last
month; two of us are birders. There *is* effort to reduce downtown Seattle
lighting, but no work that I know of to document bird kills because of
lights.

Cheers, Diann
Treasurer, Dark Skies Northwest