If you had the option of either traveling to Utah for a swing through its national parks, or to California to sample its national parks, which would you choose?

True, California has Yosemite and Sequoia and Lassen Volcanic and Redwood just to name four, and overall more national parks

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Anacapa Island, which has been closed to Channel Islands National Park visitors since June due to unsafe access, could reopen after Labor Day if a crane can be obtained to help install a new landing staircase, according to the superintendent.

Corrosion has made the existing steel staircase that island visitors use to reach a set of concrete steps that lead to the top

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While there are plenty of bear warnings posted in national parks, it’s not that often you hear about a great white shark warning, but that’s the situation at Santa Barbara Island in Channel Islands National Park.

On Wednesday park officials issued a release stating that great white sharks had been seen attacking sea lions near Santa Barbara Island.

Since 1999, when fewer than 100 island fox were thought to inhabit Channel Islands National Park, a recovery program has brought the species to nearly full recovery on the park’s islands.

The decline of the Channel Islands’ populations of the species, which is listed as federally endangered, was attributed to predation by golden eagles, a predator that hadn’t nested

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If you can’t travel to Channel Islands National Park on Thursday — and really, how many of us can? — but want to watch two bald eagles being banded, you can do that with a computer connection.

At 11 a.m. Pacific (noon Mountain, 1 p.m. Central, and 2 p.m.

While there are a handful of islands to explore when visiting Channel Islands National Park, don’t overlook the rich and intriguing resources of the Pacific Ocean when heading to the park.

During a recent trip to the islands Ryan Cooper filmed some common dolphins as they accompanied his boat to the park. Mr.

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Forgive the staff at Channel Islands National Park if they popped open some champagne this past weekend. It turns out that a pair of bald eagles on Santa Cruz Island are the parents of two eaglets.

The parents, K-10 and K-26, started to welcome their brood into the world on Saturday, when the first hatched about 7:30 a.m.

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If you've recently visited any of the national parks in Florida, or the national seashores on the Gulf Coast, or even Channel Islands National Park, Cape Lookout National Seashore, or Cape Hatteras National Seashore, you might wonder why all the fuss over the removal of the brown pelican from the Endangered Species List.

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Who would have figured that Channel Islands National Park has ties to rum runners?

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