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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

--- On Tue, 12/2/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:


> 
> For those of you with any pull whatsoever, any voice in
> your local
> government, I beg you to follow Maine's lead and
> eradicate light
> pollution.  Way to go Bar Harbor!
> There are whole generations of people who have never seen
> the Milky Way
> as depicted in the photo on that link.  Living rurally
> gives me an
> advantage, a pleasure, that most never see.  Of course,
> from a practical
> point of view, navigation is a lot easier if you can see
> the stars.
> 

Arizona, especially the 2 metro areas, has done quite a bit about this.  
Though in AZ it is an economic issue because light pollution was affecting 
the observatories.
Van Dell