As the glow of artificial light has spread across the world, the number of places dark enough to see a sky rich with stars has shrunk. In North America and across Oregon, only a small percentage of ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon Outback has been named the largest international dark sky sanctuary, spanning millions of acres of land to protect wildlife from light pollution, DarkSky ...
Right now, the Oregon Outback International Dark Sky Sanctuary takes in 2.5 million acres in Lake County, Oregon. When complete, the sanctuary is expected to encompass more than 11.4 million acres.
A second dark sky park recently became certified in Oregon, three years after the state's first dark sky park was certified, and just months after 2.5 million acres of the Oregon Outback became the ...
A 2.5 million-acre swath of southern Oregon has been named the largest Dark Sky Sanctuary in the world. The region, which on Monday was officially named the Oregon Outback International Dark Sky ...
Lake, Harney and Malheur counties are so vast that they remind people of the Australian Outback. The Oregon Outback in the state's southeast corner, with its rugged mountains, deep canyons and ...
The Oregon Outback has been certified as an International Dark Sky Sanctuary, making it the largest of its kind in the world. The 2.5 million acres of sanctuary in Lake County of southeastern Oregon ...
Everything feels just a little bigger in the Oregon Outback. The mountains are steeper, history deeper, night skies darker and cuts of steak thicker than anyone has a right to expect in remote ...
Everything except the bike (and my phone, which I took the photo with). (Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) I had no idea what to expect before riding 505 miles in three ...
At nine o’clock at night, in the growing dusk of a Portland summer night, my two buddies—Davis and Ric—pulled up to my garage in a rented mini-van, nearly two hours later than our agreed-upon ...
DarkSky International has designated more than 2.4 million acres in Southeast Oregon, including Lake County, as a dark sky sanctuary, making it the largest in the world. Photograph By Christian ...
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