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§410ff Establishment

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER LIX–D— - CHANNEL ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK › § 410ff

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Protect California's Channel Islands to save their natural, cultural, and scientific values. Includes pelican nesting areas; unique tide pools; breeding seals and sea lions (with the only northern fur seal colony south of Alaska); wind-made landforms and caliche; Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo's likely burial site; and Native American sites.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §410ff

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In order to protect the nationally significant natural, scenic, wildlife, marine, ecological, archaeological, cultural, and scientific values of the Channel Islands in the State of California, including, but not limited to, the following:
(1)the brown pelican nesting area;
(2)the undisturbed tide pools providing species diversity unique to the eastern Pacific coast;
(3)the pinnipeds which breed and pup almost exclusively on the Channel islands, including the only breeding colony for northern fur seals south of Alaska;
(4)the Eolian landforms and caliche;
(5)the presumed burial place of Juan Rod­riquez Cabrillo; and
(6)the archaeological evidence of substantial populations of Native Americans;

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Robert J. Lagomarsino Visitor Center Pub. L. 104–333, div. I, title VIII, § 809, Nov. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 4189, as amended by Pub. L. 106–176, title I, § 119, Mar. 10, 2000, 114 Stat. 28, provided that: “(a) Designation.—The visitor center at the Channel Islands National Park, California, is designated as the ‘Robert J. Lagomarsino Visitor Center’. “(b) Legal References.—Any reference in any law, regulation, document, record, map, or other document of the United States to the visitor center referred to in subsection (a) is deemed to be a reference to the ‘Robert J. Lagomarsino Visitor Center’.” Similar provisions were contained in Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(d) [title I, § 125], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–181, 3009–204.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 410ff

Title 16Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73