International Dark-Sky Association

Awards Received by IDA

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IDA received a Heritage Preservation Award from the State of New Mexico, along with several individuals and organizations in New Mexico. "The award is in recognition of successful efforts to pass the Night Time Protection Act for New Mexico in the 1999 legislative session, thereby ensuring the cultural and environmental heritage of New Mexico's night skies for present and future generations." It was signed by the Governor, the Secretary of State, the State Historic Preservation Officer, and the Chair of the Cultural Properties Review Committee. It was given at the 28th Annual New Mexico Heritage Preservation Awards ceremony, on 12 May 2000, in Santa Fe,  New Mexico. Lylly Campins, of the IDA office staff in Tucson, was in Santa Fe to receive the award on behalf of IDA and thank the State for this honor. We greatly appreciate the state's recognition of dark skies as a cultural resource and their support of such dark skies. 

Dr. David Crawford, Executive Director of the IDA, and Terry McGowan, IDA Board Member, each received the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America’s 2001 Presidential Award at the August meeting of the IESNA in Ottawa. Three such awards were presented, with the third going to Louis Erhardt, a long time writer and educator about good lighting.