Searching for dwarf foxes and cloud forests on California's Santa Rosa Island. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- For weeks, I had been promising my kids they would see baby foxes.

Even from afar, the large grove of green trees stands out against the landscape of Santa Rosa Island. Their lush color and distinct height distinguish them from the island’s otherwise shrub-filled and ...

As the second largest chunk of Channel Islands National Park, and yet with a fraction of the visitors to Santa Cruz or Anacapa islands, Santa Rosa Island is a wonderland for lovers of nature and ...

We are hiking through Cherry Canyon, a dusty trail popping with red, yellow and purple wildflowers on Santa Rosa Island within Channel Islands National Park, and we are looking for one of the world’s ...

You don’t have to travel to the South Pacific to entertain dreams of desert islands. There’s a chain of uninhabited islands — Santa Cruz, Anacapa, Santa Rosa, Santa Barbara and San Miguel — just off ...

Relief shown by spot heights. Panel title: Santa Rosa Island, California, 1:250,000-scale map of Pacific coast ecological inventory. "Base map prepared by U.S. Geological Survey, 1969." Includes ...

Editor’s note: The Wild is all about featuring a variety of exciting voices from SoCal’s outdoors scene. For the next several weeks, we’re featuring guest writers (whom we’ve dubbed “wilders” ) from ...

One of the nation’s least-visited offshore refuges has been compared to the Galápagos—and the best way to meet its wild residents up close is with a double-bladed paddle. Men’s Journal aims to feature ...

Introduction / Christopher S. Jazwa and Jennifer E. Perry -- The ecological, environmental, and cultural contexts for island archaeology / Christopher S. Jazwa and Jennifer E. Perry -- Points in space ...

Last Friday, September 29th, a proposal by Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) that will keep the public off Santa Rosa Island for nearly half the year was passed as part of the 2007 Defense Authorization ...