Talk:Santa Barbara Island

Source for history of the island
The article on the Santa Barbara Island liveforever has a source from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that could be used for expanding the history section of this article. Here's a quote from it with a link to the pdf:


 * The vegetation on Santa Barbara Island had a long history of being altered by human activities. While Native Americans inhabited or at least visited Santa Barbara Island, their impact on the vegetation is unknown and the subject of speculation (Service 1985). The most likely impacts were either from burning of the vegetation or from consumption. Impacts associated with colonization by settlers, however, were much more severe. By 1850, the island was already “densely populated” with goats (Philbrick 1972). Other introductions included: cats in the 1880s, sheep in the early 1900s, New Zealand red rabbits in 1915, and Belgian hares in 1942 (McEachern 2004). Each of these species inflicted damage to the natural vegetation. The island was also farmed for oats, barley, and potatoes over nearly one-half of the island in the first half of the 1900s, and was used as an aircraft early warning outpost from 1942 to 1947 (McEachern 2004, Service 1985).


 * USFWS. Dudleya traskiae Five-year Review. January 2008.

I will work on integrating this myself as I have time available.

mennonot (talk) 01:21, 21 October 2013 (UTC)