/tags/channel-islands-national-park/ Recent content in Channel Islands National Park on Josie Lesage Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 /photo/sbi2022/ Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 /photo/sbi2022/ Santa Barbara Island In 2022, I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to help the National Park Service (NPS) with their annual vegetation monitoring on Santa Barbara Island. This island is the smallest of the channel islands, and lacking the cute island foxes known from the other NPS islands – but it’s still a real treat to get to visit it. To get there, we took a helicopter. This was the first time I’d ever taken a helicopter, and for a short while, I was pretty sure I had made a career mistake and should have been a pilot instead… but then I realized there are no plants in helicopters.