Channel Islands National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

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Close to the California mainland, yet worlds apart, Channel Islands National Park encompasses five remarkable islands (Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel, and Santa Barbara) and their ocean environment, preserving and protecting a wealth of natural and cultural resources. Isolation over thousands of years has created unique animals, plants, and archeological resources found nowhere else on Earth and helped preserve a place where visitors can experience coastal southern California as it once was.

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Channel Islands Live Eagle Webcam

In 2006, the first bald eagle chick to hatch unaided by humans on the Channel Islands in over 50 years made headlines across the country. Thrilled with the public interest in this historic event, federal agencies and the Ventura County Office of Education established a webcam that brought live, streaming images of the chick and its parents into the schools and homes of millions of Americans.

Due to the success of this webcam, it has been reestablished on Santa Cruz Island to watch this years nesting activity. The solar-powered camera runs daily between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Visit Channel Islands Live to view the webcam. Viewers will need a computer with high bandwidth and Windows Media Player. Additional park webcam information and archival footage may be found at Webcams.

Video and still images of the May 19th attack on the nest by another bald eagle may be viewed on the Channel Islands Live Eagle CAM Discussion Forum.

For the latest news on the park's bald eagle program, please visit News Releases. Natural history information on bald eagles may be found at Bald Eagles.

Island Restoration

In order to save a variety of species, including the island fox, from the brink of extinction as well as protect internationally significant archeological sites, the National Park Service (NPS) has embarked upon restoration programs to restore park islands. These restoration programs are part of the NPS mission, as mandated by Congress, to preserve unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the national park system for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations
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Pelicans Prosper

On February 8, 2008, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne formally proposed removing the California Brown Pelican from the federal list of threatened and endangered species along with the remaining protected populations of brown pelicans along the Gulf and Pacific Coasts, Caribbean, and Central and South America.

The Channel Islands support the two primary breeding colonies of California Brown Pelicans on the west coast of the United States with rookeries on Anacapa and Santa Barbara Islands.
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Channel Islands National Park
1901 Spinnaker Drive
Ventura, CA 93001

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Phone

Visitor Information
(805) 658-5730

Fax

(805) 658-5799

Climate

In general, the islands have a Mediterranean climate year-round. Temperatures are relatively stable, with highs averaging in the mid-60s (°F) and lows in the low-50s.
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