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Sunriver has gone dark—and that’s a good thing

The newest addition to the International Dark-Sky Association’s Dark Sky Places Program
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

Want a place to see the night sky, unsullied by the light pollution of the city? Sunriver may be it. The town was just named the first “dark sky place” in all of Oregon, as the newest addition to the International Dark-Sky Association‘s Dark Sky Places Program. The town earned the title of “Dark Sky […]

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The Stars Have Beckoned Us: Part Four of “Walking the High Desert”

Musings on the stars of the High Desert, from Ellen Waterston’s new book
Avatar photo Ellen Waterston

In the last edition of our excerpts from Ellen Waterston‘s “Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America Along the Oregon Desert Trail,” the author began to describe one wonder of the High Desert Trail: Pine Mountain Observatory. She continues musing on the stars in Part 4, our final installment of the book. But how […]

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