All on Patricks team: Communities share a common theme in support of Flynn with Marblehead, Danvers ties Oct 27, 2009
He had a second stint in California at the Channel Islands National Park in marine patrol, and also worked at the Harper s Ferry National Park in West Virginia. He then returned to Channel Islands, at which time his older son, William, was born. (Marblehead Reporter, MA)
Rat Island rid of namesake pest Aug 26, 2009
Some 300 islands worldwide have been rid of rats, most recently Anacapa Island in California's Channel Islands National Park. If the Rat Island project works, the Fish and Wildlife Service hopes to replicate it on other islands in the 1,100-mile island chain, where as many as a dozen other islands remain overrun with rats. (Juneau Empire)
Aleutian Rat Island appears to be rat-free Aug 24, 2009
Some 300 islands worldwide have been rid of rats, most recently Anacapa Island in California's Channel Islands National Park. If the Rat Island project works, the Fish and Wildlife Service hopes to replicate the program on other islands in the 1,100-mile island chain, where as many as a dozen other islands remain overrun with rats. (Anchorage Daily News)
Nominee to lead National Park Service has deep roots in West Jul 19, 2009
The first new submissions will be blood samples from foxes in California's Channel Islands National Park, followed by specimens from the American crocodile and the Hawaiian goose. WASHINGTON -- As superintendent of Mount Rainier National Park outside Seattle, Jon Jarvis twice climbed the 14,411-foot peak. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Endangered fox injured in Bakersfield will survive Jul 12, 2009
Place an obit: (559) 441-6228. Web Search powered by YAHOO. (Fresno Bee -- State)
NewEndangered species' DNA to be stored at NYC museum Jul 8, 2009
The first new submissions will be blood samples from foxes in California's Channel Islands National Park, followed by specimens from the American crocodile and the Hawaiian goose ... The Channel Islands National Park established a captive breeding program for foxes because of the threat from golden eagle predation. (Florida Times-Union)
Endangered species' DNA to be kept at museum Jul 8, 2009
The first new submissions will be blood samples from foxes in California's Channel Islands National Park, followed by specimens from the American crocodile and the Hawaiian goose. The DNA samples will provide researchers with genetic materials to analyze and protect hundreds of endangered species. (AZCentral -- News)
Evolution of the islands Jul 5, 2009
Channel Islands National Park ... CHANNEL ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK. (Santa Barbara News-Press)
Island escapes in America May 29, 2009
Tim Hauf PhotographySanta Cruz was a privately owned ranchland until 1980 when the U.S. Park Service and the Nature Conservancy transformed five of Southern Californias offshore isles into Channel Islands National Park. At the opposite end of the spectrum are posh private island resorts of the sort you expect in the South Pacific or Caribbean rather than right off the American mainland. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Regional news: Is swine flu 'the big one?' Apr 28, 2009
bald eagle chick deaths CHANNEL ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) The only bald eagle nest on Santa Cruz Island is now a lonely place, one that webcam viewers were delighted to monitor just a few weeks ago. (ESPN -- Outdoors)
* Recession helps boost guilt-free tourism industry Apr 19, 2009
Sierra Club Outings, which offers a series of service trips in which volunteers can help eradicate invasive plants in Channel Islands National Park in California (US$695) or maintain trails in the Red River Gorge in Kentucky (US$375), said its domestic trips were down by 16 percent for the first three months of the year overall, compared with the same period last year. But service-trip bookings were down just 9 percent. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
UC Riverside researcher names lichen after President Barack Obama Apr 16, 2009
The Channel Islands National Park, in a cooperative agreement with UCR, funded Knudsen's research. The park includes Santa Rosa Island. (EurekAlert!)
Climate change threatens Channel Islands artifacts Apr 5, 2009
Though five of the islands make up the Channel Islands National Park, they are not protected from the sea's fury. In 2005, the U.S. Geological Survey found that half of the 250 miles of shoreline studied on the Channel Islands were vulnerable to sea level rise. (Fresno Bee -- State)
Channel Islands offer diversity and beauty Mar 24, 2009
With tiny Santa Barbara Island to the south, they make up Channel Islands National Park. While they look similar from the mainland, Each island has its own heartbeat, said Marla Daily, president of the Santa Cruz Island Foundation, an organization devoted to the islands' preservation. (Lompoc Record, CA)
