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@channelislandsnps is a micro influencer with 42,547 followers.
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@channelislandsnps is quite active, usually publishing every day, with a poor use of captions but great use of hashtags
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30
42,547
151
273
1.95%
831
8
Oct 12
377
42,517
151
272
2.04%
869
8
Oct 04
254
42,140
151
269
2.34%
987
8
Sep 30
289
41,886
151
268
2.52%
1,056
9
Sep 26
97
41,597
151
265
2.4%
1,000
9
Sep 24
73
41,500
151
264
2.41%
1,000
8
Sep 23
206
41,427
151
264
2.39%
990
8
Sep 20
68
41,221
151
262
2.44%
1,006
9
Sep 19
78
41,153
151
261
2.42%
994
9
Sep 18
66
41,075
151
261
2.42%
993
8
Sep 17
120
41,009
151
261
2.41%
990
8
Sep 16
87
40,889
151
261
2.39%
976
8
Sep 15
238
40,802
151
260
2.39%
976
9
Sep 12
84
40,564
151
259
2.4%
974
8
Sep 11
71
40,480
151
258
2.4%
973
8
Sep 10
105
40,409
151
258
2.37%
956
8
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Sep 09
77
40,304
151
257
2.3%
927
7
Sep 08
92
40,227
151
257
2.26%
908
7
Sep 07
73
40,135
151
256
2.28%
914
8
Sep 06
90
40,062
151
255
2.33%
935
8
Sep 05
66
39,972
151
254
2.23%
891
8
Sep 04
73
39,906
151
253
2.15%
858
7
Sep 03
59
39,833
150
252
2.03%
809
7
Sep 02
62
39,774
150
251
1.98%
788
7
Sep 01
52
39,712
150
251
1.92%
762
7
Aug 31
61
39,660
150
250
1.85%
735
6
Aug 30
56
39,599
150
249
1.87%
740
6
Aug 29
73
39,543
150
249
1.87%
739
6
Aug 28
55
39,470
150
249
1.87%
739
6
Aug 27
53
39,415
150
249
1.87%
736
6
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On we'd like to celebrate the park's rich indigenous history.
Hundreds of years ago, the indigenous island Chumash traveled the ancient waters of the Santa Barbara Channel for hunting, fishing, and trading. They built canoes, called tomols, from redwood trees that drifted down the coast, fastening the cut planks together with animal sinews (tendon rope) and sealed with a tar-like substance called yop.
The tomol is central to the Chumash heritage, constructed and paddled by members of the Brotherhood of the Tomol. The historic Brotherhood disbanded in 1834, but in 1976, a contemporary group built Helek, which means Peregrine Falcon, based on ethnographic and historic accounts of tomol construction. It was the first tomol built in 142 years and the modern paddlers travelled from San Miguel Island to Santa Rosa Island, and finally to Santa Cruz Island.
Twenty years later, the Chumash Maritime Association completed a 26-foot-long tomol which they named ‘Elye’wun (pronounced “El-E-ah-woon”), the Chumash word for Swordfish.
On September 8, 2001, ‘Elye’wun made the historic crossing from the mainland to Santa Cruz Island. Over 150 Chumash families and friends gathered to greet the tomol and paddlers on the beaches of Santa Cruz.
Each day, commercial and private boats take visitors across the Santa Barbara Channel to the shores of the Channel Islands. Can you imagine making that same journey in a canoe?
Learn more about the island Chumash at: https://www.nps.gov/chis/learn/historyculture/nativeinhabitants.htm
Photo Robert Schwemmer
Imagine living on an island ranch herding cattle on the grasslands, sandy beaches, and steep canyons of Santa Rosa Island. For more than 35 years, this was the experience of Jesus Bracamontes (photographed on right, rancher Al Vail on left). Jesus worked as a cowboy and ranch hand for the Vail and Vickers Company, which owned and operated ranching on Santa Rosa Island from 1901 - 1998.
Bracamontes was born in Sonora, Mexico in 1925. He started working on Santa Rosa Island in 1952 when he was twenty-six years old, leaving and later returning to work on the island ranch in 1962. While on Santa Rosa Island, Jesus drove a truck called “el Comando” and enjoyed fishing along the shore. He would ride on horseback over the mountains to locations like China Camp, spending two or three nights there to check on the cattle.
Bracamontes and his wife Virginia had six children who grew up on the mainland, spending summers on the island. When the children were grown, Virginia moved to Santa Rosa Island and stayed with her husband in the old schoolhouse. Jesus retired from island ranching, moving back to the mainland with his wife. Following Virginia’s passing, Jesus was rehired by Vail and Vickers, returning to Santa Rosa Island. With the removal of the last herds of cattle and the cattle operation ending on Santa Rosa Island in 1998, Jesus retired to Tecate, Mexico.
To learn more about the ranching history of Santa Rosa Island, please visit https://www.nps.gov/chis/learn/historyculture/santarosaisland.htm
Photo by Bill Dewey. Santa Cruz Island Foundation Archives
Welcome to Wednesday’s whet your APPetite! Use the official NPS Channel Islands mobile app to learn more about the islands, plan your trip or create an island photo collage.
This week’s tip highlights how to use the app in the park where cellular service is limited. To access the features, follow these simple steps before you leave:
1) Download the free app from the App Store or Google Play.
2) In the app, select the “Settings” option in the lower right corner.
3) Tap the choice “Download Offline Content.”
The offline content will show real time location on the interactive map, highlight nearby sites and display historical information and guides.
Visit https://www.nps.gov/chis/planyourvisit/app.htm for more details.
Have you used an app while visiting a natinal park? Share how an app enhanced your experience.
Photo NPS
Channel Islands National Park gives a big shout out to teachers and educators on World Teacher’s Day!
Thank you to those who open the doors to learning and introduce a world of wonder. Now, more than ever, we appreciate your work to support students, build essential skills, and lead in challenging times.
Partner with the national park service to connect students to cultural and natural resources across the country. Use the online lesson plans at https://www.nps.gov/teachers/index.htm to utilize America’s largest classroom.
Need a truly unique experience? Immerse your class in an underwater kelp forest or explore the challenges of island life by visiting the Channel Islands education page at https://www.nps.gov/chis/learn/education/index.htm.
Share with us an interest or career inspired by a favorite teacher.
Photo: Tim Hauf
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Congratulations to exhibits specialist and member of the Mediterranean Network Historic Preservation Crew at Channel Islands National Park Sara Stratte on receiving a Harrison Goodall Preservation Award. The prestigious fellowship, named in honor of a longtime partner preservationist with the national park service, supports innovative research to preserve historic resources.
Stratte’s project will test the use of thermal imagery to detect unseen damage beneath the exterior plaster at the Smugglers adobe on Santa Cruz Island, which was damaged in a 2018 earthquake. The results will guide repairs carried out by the preservation crew in the next year.
Findings from the Smuggler’s adobe case study will also be shared at professional conferences and across organizations, advancing techniques for conserving adobe structures throughout the American West and Southwest.
Thank you to Sara for her exceptional work at Channel Islands National Park and her creativity in the field of .
The National Park Service preserves the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations. Job opportunities cover a diverse range, including historic preservation, at over 400 parks across the county. Learn more about National Park Service careers at https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/workwithus.htm.
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Thank you to the Colon-Martinez family and all the other volunteers who made September a successful Coastal Cleanup Month.
For over a decade, National Park Service staff and community members have come together on Coastal Cleanup Day to collect litter and keep the Ventura Harbor area clean. Current conditions meant no large, organized event like past years, but citizens rose to the occasion and made time to keep California beaches, parks and neighborhoods free of debris.
Yarissa Martinez and her family took up grabbers and buckets near Channel Islands National Park Visitor Center for the fifth year in the row. Embracing safety precautions, this crew collected nearly seven pounds of trash.
While they missed the energy of the group event, Martinez says spending family time doing something worthy for the environment and encouraging others is still the best part of the occasion.
Stay connected with the clean water community by visiting the California Coastal Commission at https://www.coastal.ca.gov/.
Photos: Common items found during cleanup include fishing lines, food packaging, cigarettes butts, bottles/cans/lids and clothing. Yarissa Martinez
Channel Islands National Park is a world-class destination, attracting visitors from both near and faraway places. While international and domestic travel looks different this year, we look forward to one day welcoming back visitors from around the globe. Whether you decide to visit for the day or camp overnight, Channel Islands National Park offers a variety of recreational opportunities, such as hiking, kayaking, snorkeling and wildlife viewing. These islands are truly worth sending a postcard home to share about!
Which state or country did you (or plan to) visit Channel Islands National Park from?
For planning a future trip, please visit https://www.nps.gov/chis/planyourvisit/index.htm
Photo Jeff Smith
Today is National Public Lands Day, with the 2020 theme “More Ways to Connect to Nature”. Traditionally helps connect thousands of volunteers to public lands through service activities, such as trail maintenance and trash clean-ups. While many public land sites will be unable to host in-person volunteer events this year, you can still in local, state, and federal public lands, including Channel Islands National Park.
In celebration of , all National Park Service sites with an entrance fee will offer free admission today! (There is no entrance fee to visit Channel Islands National Park.) How will you be connecting to and caring for the outdoors on National Public Lands Day?
For more information about National Public Lands Day, please visit https://www.nps.gov/subjects/npscelebrates/public-lands-day.htm
Photo Tim Hauf
Did you know a female California spiny lobster can carry up to 800,000 eggs!
Need more lobster tales? Feast on these fun facts for . No butter required.
• Unlike their Maine counterparts, spiny lobsters don’t have claws.
• The decapod (ten legged) crustacean gets its name from the sharp spines along its upper shell and sides of the tail.
• The two long antennae are twice as long as its body.
• The largest California spiny lobster ever recorded weighed over 26 pounds!
• A juvenile may shed its shell (exoskeleton) 20 times in the first year.
• Spiny lobsters are scavengers, eating almost any decomposing material on the ocean floor in addition to sea urchins, clams, and worms. Their diet of kelp consuming sea urchins helps to maintain a healthy, balanced habitat for other species that rely on the kelp for food and shelter.
Explore the underwater home of California spiny lobsters by watching Channel Islands National Park live dives at https://www.nps.gov/chis/planyourvisit/live-programs.htm.
What other marine life can you spot in the Anacapa broadcast?
Photo Brett Seymour
Ranger Merrill McCauley and his brother Dr. Douglas McCauley both have a strong connection to the Channel Islands having grown up working on commercial fishing boats and diving in the park. Over the years they have seen the dramatic impact that illegal poaching has had on the marine life at the islands. This is a large part of why Ranger Merrill became a marine park ranger and his brother Douglas, a marine biologist at UCSB, because they both wanted to help protect the underwater world of the Channel Islands.
A few days ago, the McCauley brothers had a chance to work together in the park doing just that. While Ranger Merrill was out on the water in his patrol boat looking for illegal fishing activities, his brother was his eye in the sky while on a flight with NOAA in a helicopter above him, radioing in to him below to give him the locations of any poachers he spotted fishing in the Channel Islands Marine Protected Areas. It was a special day for the McCauley brothers to be able to work together in the park doing what they had always dreamed of doing- protecting the islands that they love so much.
Photo NPS/Merrill McCauley
"Sharks are beautiful animals, if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means you're in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and you don't see sharks." - Sylvia Earle
The leopard shark is one of the most common sharks found along the coasts of Channel Islands National Park. The leopard shark lives in shallow waters and occasionally patrols the kelp forest, usually staying near the bottom. It’s rarely found in water more than 65 feet deep (19.8 m), although some have strayed as deep as 300 feet (91.4 m). Leopard sharks feed on clams, fish eggs, fat innkeeper worms, crabs and fishes. Leopard sharks feed by skimming the bottom of the seafloor. Their mouth is on the flat underside of their head and opens downward.
A great place to view these docile sharks is right from the pier at Prisoner's Harbor on Santa Cruz Island.
Photo Matthew Field
Ahoy! It’s .
Those adventurous sailors with the colorful language would certainly find Channel Islands National Park a pirate’s paradise. The island’s tall, craggy cliffs provide a perfect lookout for unwanted company. Large sea caves offer plenty of places to hide treasure and quiet coves give shelter from blustery wind and waves.
Early motion picture companies found plenty of inspiration on northern Santa Cruz Island. Audiences craved westerns, pirate stories and tales of lost civilizations making the rustic charm and isolated location an ideal background for storytelling.
Ira and Margaret Eaton hosted many film crews at Pelican Bay Camp between 1913 and 1930 and saw the production of the 1916 pirate movie “Pearls of Paradise.” A 1924 version of “Peter Pan” employed more than 100 people, many of them diving girls dressed as porpoises and mermaids. Starting in the 1930's, the popularity of movies with soundtracks moved most film production indoors and ended the era of movie making on Santa Cruz Island.
Looking for a treasured experience? You can plan a trip to the Channel Islands or take a virtual tour by visiting https://www.nps.gov/chis/virtual.htm or downloading the free Channel Islands App from the App store or Google Play.
Photo: Pelican Bay, circa 1920s, attracted visitors from around the country, but mainly acted as a resort for southern
Californians. Santa Barbara Historical Society
Channel Islands National Park is a world-class destination, attracting visitors from both near and faraway places. While international and domestic travel looks different this year, we look forward to one day welcoming back visitors from around the globe. Whether you decide to visit for the day or camp overnight, Channel Islands National Park offers a variety of recreational opportunities, such as hiking, kayaking, snorkeling and wildlife viewing. These islands are truly worth sending a postcard home to share about!
Which state or country did you (or plan to) visit Channel Islands National Park from?
For planning a future trip, please visit https://www.nps.gov/chis/planyourvisit/index.htm
Photo Jeff Smith
hashtags
#WorldTourismDay
#ChannelIslands
#NationalPark
#FindYourPark
analysis
This post got
73% more likes
compared to @channelislandsnps's average. It uses
33% more hashtags
and its
caption is 28% shorter
1,291
11
Sep 25 2020 GMT15:10
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Did you know a female California spiny lobster can carry up to 800,000 eggs!
Need more lobster tales? Feast on these fun facts for . No butter required.
• Unlike their Maine counterparts, spiny lobsters don’t have claws.
• The decapod (ten legged) crustacean gets its name from the sharp spines along its upper shell and sides of the tail.
• The two long antennae are twice as long as its body.
• The largest California spiny lobster ever recorded weighed over 26 pounds!
• A juvenile may shed its shell (exoskeleton) 20 times in the first year.
• Spiny lobsters are scavengers, eating almost any decomposing material on the ocean floor in addition to sea urchins, clams, and worms. Their diet of kelp consuming sea urchins helps to maintain a healthy, balanced habitat for other species that rely on the kelp for food and shelter.
Explore the underwater home of California spiny lobsters by watching Channel Islands National Park live dives at https://www.nps.gov/chis/planyourvisit/live-programs.htm.
What other marine life can you spot in the Anacapa broadcast?
Photo Brett Seymour
hashtags
#NationalLobsterDay
#ChannelIslandsNPS
#lobster
#kelpforest
analysis
This post got
55% more likes
compared to @channelislandsnps's average. It uses
33% more hashtags
and its
caption is 11% longer
1,041
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Sep 21 2020 GMT14:15
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"Sharks are beautiful animals, if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means you're in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and you don't see sharks." - Sylvia Earle
The leopard shark is one of the most common sharks found along the coasts of Channel Islands National Park. The leopard shark lives in shallow waters and occasionally patrols the kelp forest, usually staying near the bottom. It’s rarely found in water more than 65 feet deep (19.8 m), although some have strayed as deep as 300 feet (91.4 m). Leopard sharks feed on clams, fish eggs, fat innkeeper worms, crabs and fishes. Leopard sharks feed by skimming the bottom of the seafloor. Their mouth is on the flat underside of their head and opens downward.
A great place to view these docile sharks is right from the pier at Prisoner's Harbor on Santa Cruz Island.
Photo Matthew Field
hashtags
#ChannelIslandsNationalPark
#Sharks
#MarineMonday
analysis
This post got
25% more likes
compared to @channelislandsnps's average. It uses
the average amount of hashtags
and its
caption is 11% shorter
comments
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Oct 07 2020 GMT14:15
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Welcome to Wednesday’s whet your APPetite! Use the official NPS Channel Islands mobile app to learn more about the islands, plan your trip or create an island photo collage.
This week’s tip highlights how to use the app in the park where cellular service is limited. To access the features, follow these simple steps before you leave:
1) Download the free app from the App Store or Google Play.
2) In the app, select the “Settings” option in the lower right corner.
3) Tap the choice “Download Offline Content.”
The offline content will show real time location on the interactive map, highlight nearby sites and display historical information and guides.
Visit https://www.nps.gov/chis/planyourvisit/app.htm for more details.
Have you used an app while visiting a natinal park? Share how an app enhanced your experience.
Photo NPS
hashtags
#ChannelIslandsNationalPark
#FindYourPark
#ChannelIslandsApp
analysis
This post got
88% more likes
compared to @channelislandsnps's average. It uses
the average amount of hashtags
and its
caption is 14% shorter
1,438
12
Sep 27 2020 GMT14:30
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Channel Islands National Park is a world-class destination, attracting visitors from both near and faraway places. While international and domestic travel looks different this year, we look forward to one day welcoming back visitors from around the globe. Whether you decide to visit for the day or camp overnight, Channel Islands National Park offers a variety of recreational opportunities, such as hiking, kayaking, snorkeling and wildlife viewing. These islands are truly worth sending a postcard home to share about!
Which state or country did you (or plan to) visit Channel Islands National Park from?
For planning a future trip, please visit https://www.nps.gov/chis/planyourvisit/index.htm
Photo Jeff Smith
hashtags
#WorldTourismDay
#ChannelIslands
#NationalPark
#FindYourPark
analysis
This post got
50% more likes
compared to @channelislandsnps's average. It uses
33% more hashtags
and its
caption is 28% shorter
1,291
11
Sep 25 2020 GMT15:10
captions
Did you know a female California spiny lobster can carry up to 800,000 eggs!
Need more lobster tales? Feast on these fun facts for . No butter required.
• Unlike their Maine counterparts, spiny lobsters don’t have claws.
• The decapod (ten legged) crustacean gets its name from the sharp spines along its upper shell and sides of the tail.
• The two long antennae are twice as long as its body.
• The largest California spiny lobster ever recorded weighed over 26 pounds!
• A juvenile may shed its shell (exoskeleton) 20 times in the first year.
• Spiny lobsters are scavengers, eating almost any decomposing material on the ocean floor in addition to sea urchins, clams, and worms. Their diet of kelp consuming sea urchins helps to maintain a healthy, balanced habitat for other species that rely on the kelp for food and shelter.
Explore the underwater home of California spiny lobsters by watching Channel Islands National Park live dives at https://www.nps.gov/chis/planyourvisit/live-programs.htm.
What other marine life can you spot in the Anacapa broadcast?
Photo Brett Seymour