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        "notes": "A private conservation ranch on Calgary's southwest edge that protects nocturnal wildlife habitat alongside dark skies."
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        "notes": "Centred on Elk Island National Park about 50 km east of Edmonton, within a UNESCO-recognized biosphere region."
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        "notes": "Canada's first International Dark Sky Community; the whole town retrofitted street and yard lighting to shielded, warm-colored fixtures, about 40 km north of Edmonton."
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        "notes": "A boreal-forest canoe-country park east of Lac La Biche in northeastern Alberta."
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        "notes": "Certified jointly with Montana's Glacier National Park as the first trans-boundary International Dark Sky Park."
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