Flora & Fauna

• IDA Brochure: Wildlife — Artificial lights disrupt the world's ecosystems
• What is Light Pollution?
  A one-page guide that describes the basic components of light pollution.
• TIME Magazine: Where Are the Fireflies Going? (Aug. 30, 2008)
• The Hidden Toll
  The earth's glowing waters can impact both ends of the marine food chain. From LD+A Magazine, IESNA, June 2019
• Landscape and Lighting
  With an increasing body of evidence proving that light at night has deleterious effects on flora, fauna, and human health, it is time to re-evaluate our night lighting around our homes and in the garden.
• National Geographic Magazine: The End of Night
  Cover story of the November 2008 issue, this is a general interest level, background piece on light pollution.
• Bird-safe Building Guidelines
  New York City Audubon has just published Bird-Safe Building Guidelines, a 55-page manual for architects, landscape designers, engineers, glass technicians, developers, building managers, city, state, and federal officials, and the general public.
• Bird Safe Lighting
  Short set of guidelines from the US Fish and Wildlife Service on bird-safe lighting.
• Landscape and Lighting
  With an increasing body of evidence proving that light at night has deleterious effects on flora, fauna, and human health, it is time to re-evaluate our night lighting around our homes and in the garden.
• FLAP brochure
  Information on lights and their devastating effects on migrating birds. Print, cut, and fold.
• Shoreland Lighting Guide
  A great 6-page guide to lighting along shores and coastlines, from the University of Wisconsin-Extension.
• Understanding the effect of light pollution on wildlife
  3 mb PowerPoint presentation, from Johnny Noles.
• Tree affected by nighttime lighting
• Let There Be Light — Bring Back the Stars
  An article from The Hamptons View by Nancy Hyden Woodward about dark skies and what is being done in eastern Long Island to protect dark skies. (Originally at www.hamptonsview.com/detail.ihtml?id=212&apid=317&sid=1 which is now defunct.)
• Preservation Magazine - Beyond the Glare and the Blare
  Once, people could bathe in starlight and listen to snow fall. Now the quest to renew darkness and silence is growing. Cover story of Preservation Magazine, by Anne Matthews.