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A Santa Cruz Island Fox passes a raven on Santa Cruz Island off the California coast on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. Each of the Channel Islands has its own subspecies of the fox that are found nowhere ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks rare plant biologist Heather Schneider about the Santa Cruz Island Dudleya, an Endangered Species Act success story.

A bald eagle baby is seen being fed its first meal after it hatched April 2 in the Fraser Point area of Santa Cruz Island. Screengrab from the Institute for Wildlife Studies and Explore.org live ...

A nearby boater rescued a man who fell overboard near Santa Cruz Island off California with no life jacket, the U.S. Coast Guard says. Getty Images/iStockphoto A man who fell overboard off ...

The city of Santa Cruz map was adopted by the Coastal Commission in April 2013. The updated layout for the city of Santa Cruz is included in the meeting’s agenda packet alongside the updated ...

Santa Rosa Island was filled with cattle, sheep and horses by 1844, and by 1870, Santa Cruz Island was filled with 50,000 sheep. Ranching continued on the islands in some form until 1999 .

A pair of bald eagles stood, a wobbly, days-old chick between them, in a nest on Santa Cruz Island off Ventura this week. The small, downy raptor hatched on March 14 at Sauces Canyon on the island ...

SANTA CRUZ ISLAND — About 8,500 acres of rugged hiking trails, expansive ocean vistas and sun-kissed beaches off the Ventura County coast became public property Wednesday in a scenic ceremony ...