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Encyclopedia > Santa Rosa Island

There are at least two Santa Rosa Islands:

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Santa Rosa Island Channel Islands National Park (253 words)
Santa Rosa Island (52,794 acres), the second largest of the Channel Islands, is 40 miles west of Ventura.
It is a diverse island of grass-covered rolling hills, steep canyons, creeks, rocky inter-tidal areas and sandy beaches.
The island fox is the islands largest native mammal.
Channel Islands National Park - Santa Rosa Island (U.S. National Park Service) (544 words)
Santa Rosa Island was included as part of Channel Islands National Park upon the park’s inception on March 5, 1980.
One of these species, the Santa Rosa Island subspecies of Torrey pine, is considered one of the rarest pines in the world—the last enduring members of a once widespread Pleistocene forest.
Santa Rosa Island also hosts over 100 land bird and three land mammal species (including the island’s largest native mammal, the endemic island fox), two amphibian and three reptile species, and colonies of seabirds, seals, and sea lions.
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