This project has been a decade in the making, in collaboration with our local Chumash tribal partners. You’ll be among the few who get to explore this beautiful, hidden gem while helping preserve it. Join us in this vital effort to protect and nurture our precious coastal habitat.

This is a unique and rare opportunity to take a day trip to Eastern Santa Cruz Island and contribute to an important project to revegetate several acres of habitat. We will focus on restoration near the lookout at Cavern Point. Channel Islands National Park plans to restore native vegetation in an area degraded by years of grazing, with ongoing support from volunteer work leaders. Channel Islands Restoration will assist by leading trips for National Park Service volunteers this year, so this is your opportunity!

Join us to help plant nearly 700 native plants at the San Marcos Foothills Preserve and bring ‘al-tipašumawiš—meaning “one at peace”—to life. Conceived by Chumash elder Ernestine Ignacio De Soto, this ethnobotanical garden will be a living tribute that teaches visitors about the plants the Chumash people have used for generations for food, medicine, and fiber.