{"id":16933,"date":"2021-11-03T01:20:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T01:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=16933"},"modified":"2021-11-02T20:19:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:19:59","slug":"two-valley-environment-friendly-programs-look-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/03\/two-valley-environment-friendly-programs-look-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Valley Environment-Friendly Programs Look Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wood River Valley\u2019s dark sky reserve and the Treasure Valley\u2019s higher-learning center will be partnering up, thanks to the nation\u2019s aerospace agency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Boise State Physics Astronomy Outreach Program has been awarded a $1 million grant from NASA, which will bring outreach and education about the region to the community as well as a new STEM program to the university&#8217;s astronomy undergraduates. The Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve includes Ketchum and Sun Valley, spanning 906,000 acres\u2014the third largest dark sky reserve in the world after Mont-Megantic in Quebec and Aoraki Mackenzie in New Zealand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, the Wood River Valley Wildlife Smart Communities Coalition is reminding people they need to look out even when they\u2019re looking up. The coalition recently launched a new website with information about living safely with wildlife, like our local mountain lions and black bears. The new website can be found at wrvwildlifesmart.org.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wood River Valley\u2019s dark sky reserve and the Treasure Valley\u2019s higher-learning center will be partnering up, thanks to the nation\u2019s aerospace agency.\u00a0 The Boise State Physics Astronomy Outreach Program has been awarded a $1 million grant from NASA, which will bring outreach and education about the region to the community as well as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,83,84,18,33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-community","7":"category-idaho","8":"category-in-brief","9":"category-news","10":"category-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16937,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16933\/revisions\/16937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}