The Public Lands & Dark Skies student research team works with the CC’s State of the Rockies and Journalism Institute to conduct in-field interviews of visitors at the most popular public lands in the Rocky Mountain West. The team uses Conservation in the West Poll-based interview questions to corroborate the most recent poll and build on summer 2022 survey results. This year the focus has shifted towards assessing the importance of Dark Skies.

Along with their research through the survey, the students will be conducting their own personal projects.