My talent: not sleeping at night.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Well, since you’re up, why not learn about night skies in national parks? We generally think of night skies as a scenic resource, valued by amateur astronomers as well as casual stargazers. Sometimes forgotten is the importance of natural darkness for wildlife. Nearly half the species on Earth are nocturnal—active at night instead of during the day. Many species rely on natural patterns of light and dark to navigate, nest, mate, hide from predators, and endlessly scroll on Facebook. Have you experienced the night sky in a park? Image 1: Mesa Arch below a starry night sky at canyonlandsnps NPS Image 2: Starry night sky above zionnps. NPS/Avery Sloss Image 3: Fort Jefferson under a night sky at drytortugasnps. NPS Image 4: Silhouette of a park visitor and trees against a starry sky rockynps. NPS/Grossman Image 5: Night sky at lassennps NPS/Alison Taggart-Barone⁣ #nightsky #starrynight #stars #nationalpark #darkskies #parkskies