
Restoring Nature
The Evolution of Channel Islands National Park
- 426 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Off the coast of California, running from Santa Barbara to La Jolla, lies an archipelago of eight islands known as the California Channel Islands. The northern five were designated as Channel Islands National Park in 1980 to protect and restore the rich habitat of the islands and surrounding waters. In the years since, that mission intensified as scientists discovered the extent of damage to the delicate habitats of these small fragments of land and to the surprisingly threatened sea around them. In Restoring Nature Lary M. Dilsaver and Timothy J. Babalis examine how the National Park Service has attempted to reestablish native wildlife and vegetation to the five islands through restorative ecology and public land management. The Channel Islands staff were innovators of the inventory and monitoring program whereby the resource problems were exposed. This program became a blueprint for management throughout the U.S. park system. Dilsaver and Babalis present an innovative regional and environmental history of a little-known corner of the Pacific West, as well as a larger national narrative about how the Park Service developed its approach to restoration ecology, which became a template for broader Park Service policies that shaped the next generation of environmental conservation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Frontispiece
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Channel Islands of California
- 2. A Monumental Task
- 3. Legislative Protection for the Islands and the Sea
- 4. Resource Management in the Early Years
- 5. Building the New Park
- 6. Growth of the Natural Resource Management
- 7. Managing the Resources on Santa Rosa Island
- 8. New Owners on Santa Cruz Island
- 9. Restoring Nature
- 10. Channel Islands National Park in the New Century
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About Lary M. Dilsaver
- About Timothy J. Babalis
- Series List