Chan can now return to his job surveying the Channel Islands kelp forests and tide pools, as part of the park’s mission to monitor and preserve these natural resources. Since he has been reinstated, ...

Of the 1,000 workers who heard that they would be able to return to their jobs, several included workers from the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and Channel Islands National Park.

With thousands of plant and animal species, including dozens found nowhere else on Earth, Catalina is a world-class diving ...

Earl and I went to California, and we were mugged. By whales. Three humpbacks. “Mugged” is the official term, meaning we were ...

B.C. researchers have found that the fiords of the Central Coast may be providing refuge for the critically endangered ...

A new study suggests that cold-water fjords on British Columbia’s Central Coast could be a marine refuge for threatened sunflower sea stars, which have been hit hard by sea star wasting disease. But ...

The sunflower sea star is seen in the Burke Channel, one of the fiords in B.C.'s Central Coast. The species eats sea urchins, which have been blamed for eating kelp forests along the coast and ...

In California ... to-spot forest birds. “The lifeblood of intelligent ecosystem management now is monitoring,” especially given the impacts of global climate change, said Tim Coonan, a wildlife ...