{"id":391,"date":"2011-03-31T20:36:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T02:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2011-03-31T20:36:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T02:36:29","slug":"jasper-park-dark-sky-preserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/jasper-park-dark-sky-preserve.html","title":{"rendered":"Jasper National Park as a Dark Sky Preserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasc.ca\/lpa\/darksky.shtml\">Royal Astronomical Society of Canada<\/a> has officially designated Jasper National Park as a Dark Sky Preserve. At 11,228km<sup>2<\/sup>, Jasper is the largest Dark Sky Preserve in the world, and the only preserve in Canada with a town wholly within the preserve. Most of Jasper National Park\u00a0has excellent dark skies; the southern part of the park boasts truly dark skies. This is one of the only areas in southwestern Canada\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jasperdarksky.org\/maps\/68-light-pollution-map\">with exceptional darkness<\/a>, yet is accessible by year-round road and offers multiple accommodation facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article in Canadian Geographic describing the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/canadiangeographic.ca\/magazine\/apr11\/astronomy_jasper_national_park.asp\">process to create the Preserve<\/a>, and the article in the local Fitzhugh newspaper describing what it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fitzhugh.ca\/news\/3116-jasper-national-park-designated-a-dark-sky-preserve\">means for the park and the community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Jasper National Park Dark Sky Preserve\" href=\"http:\/\/jasperdarksky.org\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/jasperdarksky.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Frocky-peak.com%2Fblog%2F2011%2F03%2Fjasper-park-dark-sky-preserve.html&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Royal Astronomical Society of Canada has officially designated Jasper National Park as a Dark Sky Preserve. At 11,228km2, Jasper is the largest Dark Sky Preserve in the world, and the only preserve in Canada with a town wholly within the preserve. Most of Jasper National Park\u00a0has excellent dark skies; the southern part of the park &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/jasper-park-dark-sky-preserve.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jasper National Park as a Dark Sky Preserve<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383,241,9,93,174,97,420,354],"tags":[421,422],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}