Bleitz, Dana E.; Salls, Roy A.(National Park Service, 1993)
The striking development in the 9,500 year adaptation of the maritime culture to San Clemente Island is the increasing-importance of kelp bed fishing. This evolution can be traced through faunal and artifact records. The ...
This paper constitutes the second investigation of the lichens of Santa Barbara Island. The collections made on the island by Blanche Trask in 1901-1902 were previously reported by Hasse (1903a-d, 1913). The known lichen ...
The natural history of four sympatric species of red seaweeds in the genus Rhodymenia Greville (R. californica Kylin, R. pacifica Kylin, R. callophyllidoides Hollenberg & Abbott and R. arborescens Dawson) was investigated ...
Research on San Nicolas Island prehistory currently describes an aboriginal maritime adaptation which appeared about 6,800 years ago. Faunal data from the stratified site of SNI-11 indicate an early procurement strategy ...
Despite the importance of fire in the maintenance of chaparral and closed-cone pine forests on the mainland, there have been only three documented lightning-caused fires in such habitats on the islands during the past 140 ...
The carbonized vegetation associated with Pleistocene "fire areas" and mammoth and bird fossils on the Northern Channel Islands has been attributed to wildfires and to the cooking of mammoths by humans. This paper elaborates ...
Present populations of black abalone (Haliotis cracherodii Leach) at Santa Cruz Island, California are presently dense, up to 90/m^2. Examination of shell middens created by Chumash Indians suggests that such high present-day ...
Allen Jones, Julia; Junak, Steven A.; Paul, R. J.(National Park Service, 1993)
This note describes and evaluates a recent contribution to vegetation mapping of Santa Cruz Island based on interpretation of 1985 color infrared aerial photographs (scale 1:24 000). The map was digitized to create a GIS ...
From at least 1877 to 1981, Santa Barbara, California was the center for collecting-pinnipeds for zoos, circuses, oceanaria and research institutions worldwide. Three primary collectors, with numerous assistants, dominated ...