Las Vegas, nev. (Fox5) – Las Vegas may be known as one of the brightest cities on earth, but some motivated locals have taken on the city of rogue lighting on the mountains.
And these lights have no switch. Fox5 heard from a neighbor near the Franzosenberg on the East Valley over the many stages that his group is doing to deal with light pollution, thanks to solar lights, the hundreds of foot diving up the comb.
Members of the Light Hunter League had enough.
“For me, I look at it every evening from my garden and it got more and more and more annoying.”
Take it from one of the members of the provisional group who want to remain anonymous and avoid potential retaliation to reduce the markers. “We have a few haters who say: Hey, the valley has a lot of lights, what do you make a difference? But they would be surprised that even a small light on the mountain can look super bright when it is so dark around it. “
He says he always got his steps to hike these mountains.
“That shouldn't be up there, it makes no sense. And then another appeared and then another became another, then it became three. And I had to do something about it. “
Although the solar lights are most visible at night, it is too dangerous to go on the paths after sunset because it is difficult to see something.
Therefore, a member of his team of about eight years helps with the Light Hunter League according to the lights from above.
“We now have a drone operator that helps with the clarification, so we have a better idea of where to go.”
But that is after it has carried out extensive mapping on the floor. The light hunter says he noticed about a year and a half ago that the lights appeared.
The most recent takedown occurred in early February this year. But it is not just people he is worried about being disturbed by the lights.
“There are animals everywhere. It doesn't seem to be a big deal, but when many people start with it and many lights dive, who knows what kind of disorder it could have on wild animals. “
An official of the Wildlife Department of Wildlife in Nevada says to Fox5: “It is difficult to say whether a scattering of solar lights would give additional effects on the amount of light pollution that was already set in the area of Las Vegas.”
Nevertheless, the light hunter wishes that the perpetrators would remember an important variable. “This is public country, there are laws against the derivation of objects to public country.”
Speaking of laws, he explains that he did not contact the police because he has no leads to give them.
He only hopes that the Bureau of Land Management will install a Trail cam to catch who does this.
The FAA tells us that the pilots have complained about the stray lights of the mountains.
The protocol is for the FAA that the landowner is concerned with in this case the Bureau of Land Management.
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