About Our Mission To Restore Habitat
We’re a 501(c)(3) non-profit contractor that works to restore habitat on the Channel Islands and adjacent mainland through invasive plant management, native plant propagation, and native plant installation.
We promote environmental education on the Central Coast through lectures, service trips, and habitat restoration volunteer opportunities. We conduct research and monitoring to identify further habitat restoration efforts.
A view of Anacapa Island, one of the eight Channel Islands off the California coast.
Volunteer to Protect Endangered Species
You can protect endangered native species and work in unique and beautiful places when you volunteer with Channel Islands Restoration! Participants get the opportunity to visit spectacular natural areas while working to protect rare plant and animal species. Sign up to volunteer and stay updated on future trips with our organization.
Volunteers congregate on San Nicolas Island after a successful restoration day!
We’re Establishing A Native Plant Garden with Local Chumash Groups
Local Chumash pose at the Foothills, kicking off our first collaborative native garden.
Channel Islands Restoration is nearing the completion of the first phase of an ethnobotanical garden that will educate the public about the native plants that grow at the San Marcos Foothills and will include information on how the local Chumash people used the plants for food, fiber, and medicine. In the coming months, we will install signs along the trail next to the plants, featuring the plants' names in multiple languages and a QR code linking to a web page that provides details on how the plants were used and still are used. The garden was conceived by Chumash elder Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto and is dedicated in her memory. The garden exists to honor the Chumash people on whose unceded land the garden sits.
Upcoming Events
Please join us every month for a Zoom webinar! You can find our most recent one by clicking over here.
Find volunteer events here.
