Dark Skies of the Wet Mountain Valley Dark Skies of the Wet Mountain Valley, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the pristine beauty of the night sky over the region, was founded by Smokey Jack in the late 1990s, with the goal of raising awareness within the region about the dark night sky as a resource both valuable and invaluable – worth preserving, in other words, for its economic considerations as well as its own beauty. The club has succeeded so well over the intervening years that the towns of Westcliffe and Silver Cliff were jointly recognized in March 2015…