We're a volunteer alliance working to protect what's left of Central Oregon's night sky through better lighting policy, neighbor-to-neighbor education, and hands-on restoration projects.
Every year, more unshielded lighting spills across our neighborhoods and public lands disrupting sleep, disorienting migrating birds, and erasing a view of the cosmos that shaped this region's identity long before it had a name.
Bend's own outdoor lighting ordinance hasn't been meaningfully updated since 2004. We think it's time it caught up.
Working with the City of Bend to modernize outdoor lighting standards for the first time since 2004.
Free, friendly home lighting assessments to help residents fix glare before it becomes a dispute.
Building the case for an International Dark Sky Park designation on nearby public land.
Most people who've moved here in the last decade have never actually seen the Milky Way from their own backyard. That's the thing we're trying to give back.
