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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, home of giant desert plants and dazzling stargazing, becomes official dark sky park

In 2001, Flagstaff, Arizona was named the first International Dark Sky City. Now there are more than 200 places named as Dark ...

Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Earns Dark Sky Status

Following years of tension over border wall construction and damaged Indigenous sites, this National Monument has officially ...

Section of Sonoran Desert designated as a 'Dark Sky Park'

The Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona has been certified as a "Dark Sky Park." ...
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BLM weighs expansion of target shooting at Arizona monument

The agency is rethinking a Biden-era decision reversing a Trump plan that opened 90 percent of the 500,000-acre tract to target shooting. The Trump administration is taking the first steps toward ...