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Rare plant surveys allow for better understanding of the distribution and ecology of the species on the Island during their life cycle.

Seabird surveys provide information on how to best protect the elusive Scripps’s murrelet.

For the first time in 30 years the Catalina Island Conservancy performed a daytime seabird survey circumnavigating the entire island.
Source: The Catalina Islander

In an almost ironic twist of fate, Two Harbors residents, Chase and Cholyn prematurely became what human parents are referred to when their children leave home. That’s right, they found themselves “empty nesters” but not in the way intended.

Source: The Catalina Islander

On the morning of April 5, 2022, Catalina Island Conservancy staff, American Conservation Experience interns and three Loma Linda University graduate students conducted an extensive survey spreading all the way from Ben Weston to the Airport in the Sky.