The Case for Dark Parks: Protecting Nature Through Technology

The Case for Dark Parks: Protecting Nature Through Technology

The steep forbidding wilderness of Montara Mountain, a narrow ridge abuttin the famous San Andreas fault in Northern California, is a kind of perfect wilderness. We Coastsiders – that is, those who live along Northern California’s powerful, foggy sea – love this place for its Natural beauty. Except for a few power lines and radio towers, Montara Mountain is pure Nature: a wrinkled, rounded wall of granite, coated in brush and swirled in fog, wav…