Featured on the Texas Parks and Wildlife YouTube channel, the video clip entitled “Dark Skies: The Night’s Watch” focuses on the Davis Mountains in west Texas and the efforts that people are expending in order to protect the area from light pollution.

Highlighting McDonald Observatory in Jeff Davis County, this short video (less than 10 minutes) discusses the active educational outreach program that has been an integral component of operations. Bill Wren (from the observatory) and Tara Poloskey (from Davis Mountains State Park), educators and dark sky advocates, help to narrate the TPWD video, explaining light pollution and its effects. Understanding the levels of such pollution since the 1950s, viewers can very quickly see where it’s headed and what it means for seeing “…the stars at night” big and bright, out in west Texas.