Channel Islands National Park News

Robert Wassell's "Wilderness Trails of Ventura" will exhibit at the Buenaventura Art Gallery from November 10 through December 5, 2008.

A hiker who died at Channel Islands National Park from a presumed case of heat stroke sadly demonstrates not only the need to be prepared when you head out into a park, but also the wisdom of heeding advice from rangers.

An Orange County man died on Santa Cruz Island on Friday of apparent heat stroke following a hike during unseasonably hot weather.

Ken McAlpine shares a personal experience in "Islands Apart: A Year on the Edge of Civilization" . Taking inspiration from Thoreau's "Walden," McAlpine traveled alone through California's Channel Islands National Park in search of the meaning of life.

Some of the best whale-watching opportunities along the coasts of North America take place adjacent to the California coastline, particularly near Channel Islands National Park, south of Santa Barbara.

What's up: His new book "Islands Apart: A Year on the Edge of Civilization" looks at our busy world through the prism of lonely trips he made to the isolated five islands that make up Channel Islands National Park off our coast.

My wife and I had the chance to visit the Ventura Harbor Village during a getaway weekend at the Sheraton resort.

The Museum is pleased to invite you Thursday, October 1st at 7 p.m. to a booksigning for a beautifully written new publication, Islands Apart: A Year on the Edge of Civilization , by Ken McAlpine.

The world's most complete pygmy mammoth skeleton was excavated on Santa Rosa Island in 1994.

A signed agreement between the American Museum of Natural History and the U.S. National Park Service will see samples from endangered species in America's parks added to the museum's existing DNA collection, The Associated Press reported.

It's not your average library collection: Bits of scorpions and snakes. Tissue from jaguars.

If you're looking to save a little money on your summer getaway, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has come up with a perfect plan for you.

The quickest way to stir leaders of the Ventura Harbor is to ridicule the working port as a "strip mall by the sea." Nautical-themed shopping may abound in the Harbor Village retail area, but proponents are quick to note the nearly 60-year-old harbor also is home to the squid fishing industry, two yacht clubs, hotels, a comedy club, scores of ...

Research biologist John Calambokidis will highlight his work tracking the movements and estimating the populations of blue and humpback whales in the North Pacific during the "From Shore to Sea" lecture Tuesday, May 12, at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum , and the following night at the Ventura Harbor, in two free lectures.

Kayla Mills, 5, on vacation with her family from Ohio peeks into the open mouth of a shark statue on the Main Street Pier in Daytona Beach, Fla.

Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 17:49. With more people waiting out the recession at home, it's become a buyer's market for summer travel.

In the Channel Islands National Park, every day is Earth Day. Dubbed the 'North American Galapagos,' this volcanic archipelago anchored serenely in California's backyard is the province of elephant seals, nesting seabirds, migrating blue whales, and from January through April a carpet of wildflowers: coreopsis, wild hyacinths, seaside daisies, ice ...

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.

That was when two newly hatched chicks gave nature lovers across the nation the chance to witness the regrowth of a declining population on this set of islands off the Ventura County coast.

But that fascination lasted only a few days. The chicks died soon after hatching, leaving viewers to console each other on an Internet chat board hosted by the Nature Conservancy, a worldwide conservation organization.

The Channel Islands National Park, which includes Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel, and Santa Barbara islands and the surrounding ocean, will be receiving $372,000 in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act .

Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 15:45. Politically speaking, no moss grows under the feet of President Obama.