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Channel Islands
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APRIL 26

1785
John James Audubon is born in Les Cayes, Haiti. The Audubon Society, named in honor of this naturalist and wildlife painter, would be established in 1886 by George Bird Grinnell, editor of Forest and Stream, who was one of the first to speak up against the mindless slaughter of birds.

1938
Channel Islands is proclaimed a national monument. In 1980, it would be elevated to the status of national park. Comprised of five in a chain of eight southern California islands near Los Angeles, the 249,354-acre park is home more than 2,000 species of plants and animals, including 145 species that are unique to the islands and found nowhere else in the world.

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