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thank you very much for having me and thank you for coming I promise I won’t

go through 600 slides you’ll be here till midnight so what I intend to do is go through a

few slides from each chapter and I think that will give you a feel and we walk

back in time and really see the tremendously rich history of the island

because not only the the prehistory but the history of the island is connected

with our regional history California history American history and much more

than that another level for the story of the island is about people and this goes

back some 13,000 years ago when the first humans settled on the North

America continent and the Channel Islands and all of these people over

thousands of years had a common bond saying there are the hardships of the

island and they enjoyed the beauty of the island so lights down dim ricci go

there we go

as you know santa cruz island and four other of the Channel Islands are part of

Channel Islands National Park which was created in 1980 and you see the smallest

of the island is the Santa Barbara Island and which is about 600 acres and

is really on top of a large underwater Ridge extends all the way to the back of

the largest island which is Santa Cruz

this is this is a picture of in the springtime after some rains of the top

of field above scorpion Canyon and you see Anacapa the volcanic island of

Anacapa in the background and this

demonstrates some of the beauty of the island and all over the island there’s

places of equally even more beauty and but this all masks the violent birth of

the island and here you can see I like this view of the island because I think

it gives you a good perspective the island is 23 and a half miles long 60 60

mm makers and and if you were to sail around the island you would have gone

probably about seventy seven miles and the island as you could see it’s more a

debt that depth to sheep ranching and cattle because it’s way too rugged for

cattle out of 62,000 acres there’s only about 8,000 acres of good pasture land

and it takes at least ten acres of good pasture land to raise

one head of cattle you see here the santa cruz island fault and that

exemplifies the fact that the santa cruz island is really two land masses that

were formed million years ago at different locations and at different

times and at one point merged together

the south side of the island roughly about 56% of the island is of

sedimentary type soils and the dramatic difference is when you go over to the

other side of the island you see volcanic cliffs and volcanic caves now what what is all what’s all

happening here is millions of years ago probably starting around 27 million

years ago and the Pacific plate is spreading colliding and grinding against

the North American plate and is carving out the portion of land western traverse

range channel island blank a block and rotated it moved it up the coast and

that really is a portion of the south side of the island and while this is

taking place about 17 million years ago with the Pacific plate expanding and

cracking there was a lot of volcanic activity in the Southern California area

and that is the basis the origin of the northern portion of the island

I hear smugglers on the back side and you can see the transition of the

volcanic rocks right here transitioning into sedimentary type soils and these

soils would continue for another 23 miles down the backside of the island

this is what you’ll see on the north side of the island this is the side of

the island that faces the California

and there are a hundred CK’s and that gives you some indication of the violent

nature of the islands birth now this is

a postcard around 1900 and people have been talking about painted cave which is

on the west end of the island on the north side it’s a reputed to be the

largest sea cave in the world the the height there’s about a hundred and sixty feet it goes back twelve

hundred feet into the island and if you’ve ever been back there on a little

raft or kayak there’s a little beach and you’ll be greeted by sea lions and they

will be giving their opinion of the intrusion one feels that he’s entering

into a vast temple dedicated perhaps to Neptune that’s how scientific America

wrote about painted cave in 1897 and

then there you can see why they thought it was a temple and that the different

chambers the brilliant colors and it’s truly spectacular fast forwarding about

the millions of years to about you know eighteen thousand years ago during the

last ice age the entire configuration of the channel Santa Barbara Channel was

much different sea levels were four hundred feet lower at least four hundred

feet lower and you can see that this massive land island of called Santa Rosa

stretched about 77 miles so the difference between that landmass and the

coast buried four or five miles and so you can get a vision of how early human

beings birds mammals made their way to the island and global warming started

probably around 15,000 years ago and it

can has continued to this day you buy 10,000 years ago the islands retained

their independence that we know today in

1959 Phil or who is an anthropologist for Museum of Natural History I met Phil

when he was much older and much more cranky but but he discovered human

remains on what is now known as Arlington Springs and Santa Rosa Island

human remains and he had them carbon dated and the date that came back was

13,000 years ago which is concrete proof that humans on the Channel Islands are

some of the oldest if not the oldest healings in North America now you see

the little huts hemispherical those are

houses that you mash regularly had both on the island and the the mainland they

had an opening at the top and some of the larger houses could if you can

believe house as many as 50 people they had two limits to partition the

different families or people in the hut and of course this is the Tommo that

you’re well familiar with so probably at the height of the Chumash population and

I speak of Chumash that’s a really a later term the Chumash

and their ancestors been on the island for the thirteen thousand years but

during the period of 1772 to 1834 which is considered

mission period there were probably about a hundred and forty different sites from

San Luis Obispo to Santa Monica Mountains and on the Channel Islands

there were known to be 21 sites 11 of which were on Santa Cruz now bear in

mind that there is still more studies to be done surveys to be done because it’s

believed that right around where the ocean level was 400 feet left lower than

it is today there’s probably more sites

about 2,000 years ago the Chumash and their ancestors designed engineered and

built the tunnel this was a plank canoe this was a first in North America before

that they would take a log and they call them dugout logs they use those for

small boats or tule boats that were easy to put together

but the Tommo was a major major project and you can see the seams there they

would take the craft the sides of it the

Timbers they would put it in hot water bend it to have it fit the flooring and

then they would caucus with asphaltum and whatever other mix the Indians put

in it and then you can see the seams they would drill holes on each side of the scenes and bind it together so it

was a waterproof to some extent they had

a usually had a little boy bailing water interesting enough they used rocks for

ballast so they understood the concept of ballast and that’s what we used on our boats so so it was quite a feat and

the large probably the largest tamos they built was probably 30 feet long

Oh as many as two tons of weight and the smaller ones might be eight to ten feet

and that gave the Indians a much more

flexibility and manoeuvrability to come to the coast and and about the same time

they developed bead money and during you see the little beads that they’ve

produced pretty exclusively on Santa Cruz Island because Santa Cruz Island had a lot of outcroppings of shirt and

you break that and it breaks off into a very sharp pieces that they use for

micro drills and also scrapers and knives and then they made bracelets and

those were highly sought after and so they developed this trade between the

mainland and the island the island Indians exporting Marines Goods in

addition to the beads and the mainland Indians would send out bows bow and

arrows asphaltum and other things that’s the island Indians needs this gives you

an idea that imagine that these folks had to survive every single day there

were no Walmart’s there were no supermarkets or anything so they were

out among the islands fishing every day and they develop their own equipment you

can see here one of them is going to harken and they developed a two-prong

art phone so that they can go after small and big fish and the Indians when

the Spanish arrived were known to be very friendly unfortunately that happened to be their

downfall because they were didn’t have immunity just many of the diseases that

the Spaniards and other white people brought to the area and this was

situation that was replicated in the southwest the West were sometimes entire

tribes were wiped out by diphtheria typhoid and in other diseases

Fernando libretto is important because both his parents were born and lived on

at Allen Santa Cruz Island were baptized on Santa Cruz Island and he’s also

important because he had a wealth of information of the folklore and customs

of the island Indian and somehow he obtained a lot of knowledge about how

the Tamil was built and the Indians didn’t allow everybody to stand around

and watch how this boat was being built they were very selective and who got to

experience the construction of it but Fernando obviously got a lot of

information and he gave a lot of oral interviews to John Harington who then

put it on the books and it’s really the basis a lot of our knowledge of the Chumash culture and how they constructed

their their tamos you can see this is a

map in 1787 very rough of California and

not too many people knew much about California although the British and the

Russians were sniffing around and between 1769 and 1848 three different

countries Spain Mexico and the United States would claim ownership to

California and the Channel Islands Spain

preempted the situation by launching their waste called the Portola

expedition 1769 and Spain is credit a

credit a width naming santa cruz island isla de la santa cruz and it was named that

because when their ship to San Antonio was their prisoners Harbor in 1769 the

Indians brought back to the ship a lost missionary staff that a metal

cross on it so the Spaniards named the island island of Santa Cruz Mexico took

over declared its independence from Spain in 1821 and two things that Mexico

did one they never occupied Santa Cruz but they thought it might be a good

place to deposit some unsavory prisoners

that they deported out of Mexico neither San Diego or Santa Barbara wanted them

so they dumped them over in the area of prisoners Harbor and that’s where the

history stops nobody knows what happened after that but you could suspect they

didn’t get where they were by being shy about hijacking passing boats or

whatever so but anyway that’s the name the reason that prisoners Harbor is named more significantly Spain you can

see the the vast territory up here in Spain wanted to settle and control that

area in the way they did it is a created gave about 500 land grant probably over

several million acres and they gave it to Mexican citizens who gave service to

the Mexican government and in 1839 they gave captain under special arrow a

choice you want that a Catalina or you want Santa Cruz well he first chose

Catalina and then somebody said dummy there’s no water in Catalina Santa Cruz

is a better better island any chose Santa Cruz so the governor Alvarado

signs that grant rent B to them land-grant in 1839

18th became the first private owner of Santa Cruz Island now the next slide is

a little bit of history but I think it’s a important because the United States

acquires California and a lot of other lands in 1848 and through the Treaty of

Guadalupe Hidalgo and that’s some of the two-year war with Mexico over a border

dispute but kids don’t grow up knowing

too much about it it was it was a real war there were 40,000 casualties in that

war and many of the officers in that Mexican War eventually fought in the

Civil War against one another like grants and Lee and and Armistead but

anyway they both country wanted to settle it was an unpopular war and the

United States pays Mexico 15 million dollars and assumes another 3 million in

claims and in exchange the United States receives five hundred and twenty five

thousand square miles you imagine I mean it is a huge chunk of land that included

eight or part of eight existing states

today including Texas in California it’s important to know that the the treaty

was actually signed ten days after the discovery of gold and nobody knew about

there’s no Facebook there was no texting and and matter of fact there was a lot

of skepticism after the Zola was

discovered and you know well they’re just blowing hot air and so finally the

word finally got back to back east and across the Atlantic that indeed gold was

this is a real discovery people were making billions of dollars and so hence 18-49

the 49ers tens of thousands of people came to California and they didn’t give

a squat about the Mexican land grants or Mexican citizens rights they just

squatted and Congress realized it had a real problem on its hands and was going

to lead to a civil war unless something to be done so 1851 Congress if you can

imagine passed the law it was only five pages long and really define title in

California all the way for the present and it was very simple they formed the

Commission and if you had any claim to real estate you had to file your claim and prove it and if you didn’t file

within that two-year period or didn’t present sufficient evidence if the land

remained in the public domain in other words it belong to the United States and

just as an aside the United States government owns 45% of California so

kakashi Alero beautifully went through this entire process and he filed a claim

and I think 1852 the United States government opposed him every inch of the

way and they weren’t thinking about a national park then but they opposed him

and cash aleurone and finally the gay 22:9 state Supreme Court in 1860 and

they ruled in Castile Arrow’s favor now

this just this is one of the maps that called the gesture no map that was

attached to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo it just shows you the vast area that the United States received and and

you think well the United States got a great bargain but it was it was Badlands

out there was desolate and Mexico was desperate to get money at that time

so here’s a next 30 years the early ranching on Santa Cruz Island started

this is a painting by James Madison Alban who’s an artist and photographer

for the US Coast Survey begin the United States wanted to get a feel for what

they had to see through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo so this is the first image that we know of the middle ranch

and Santa Cruz Island you see two two structures now it this is James Barron

Sean yes he he actually was was hired by Castille arrow to manage the island and

dr. Shaw gave up his medical practice and to start a ranch on the island and

Indies the one that is responsible for starting a sheep ranch in 1853 bought

something like 200 sheep from Santa Rosa Island put them on Santa Cruz and it’s

not known but and there’s no evidence that cost you ever step foot on Santa

Cruz Island so Shaw as fate would have it have it continued to manage the

island for another 16 years for eighteen 69 then William Baron Castle arrow so to

San Francisco gentleman named William eat Baron who became the second owner of the island interesting me enough the

following year from the purchase Baron or somebody in San Francisco advertisers

the island for sale and said there was only fifty sheep well I don’t know the

representation about that but clearly there were no takers to buy the island

and what the coming of the Civil War and you can imagine with wool uniform wool

blankets wool socks the price of wool went up and the records assessor records in

Santa Barbara County shows and the number of sheep on the island was 12,000

so something happened between 1858 and 1860 and and by 1864 the height of the

Civil War there were over 20 over 24,000

sheep on the island Baron sells the island in 1869 to ten San Francisco area

business men one of whom was my great-great-grandfather Justinian care

and they all had very experiences that

some were entrepreneurs they had I think there were five different nationalities

were represented in his group of ten people and they’re very talented they

formed their own Bank in 1860 and the first thing that the owners new owners

did is they formed the Santa Cruz Island company and transferred the entire

island into the Santa Cruz Island company and in their articles of

incorporation they said the purpose of the company was to raise cattle so it’s obviously they

didn’t know what they were doing and doing nothing about the island so and

here what they did do is spend some money rehabbing the islands because it

had no war so I believe this is the first picture in late 1869 the wharf

that was built at prisoners heart with the first Ward it’s about 200 feet long

and it was expanded over over the years and this is the this is our

demonstration of the herd of cattle and here a similar photo in 1869 at believed

in the a Central Valley of the islands and and

justinian care I’ll just say a few

things about the 1870s because the 1870s was not good for any of the island

investors particularly care it wasn’t good for the state of California because

the bank the bank’s was collapsing benka

California collapsed and the French Bank headed by Justinian care was closed so

it was very difficult time one historian said it could correctly be called the

terrible 70 well Justinian care somehow managed to survive all of that and he started

buying out other shares of the santa cruz island company so by 1880 he was a

majority owner of the island that was the year he first went through the island and by 1886 he acquired all of

the shares because the other owners were to committed suicide one went bankrupt

and it was as a bad time for the original owners care was born 1827 in

Rochon France and the French out he was

the youngest of nine children spoke several languages at the young man he

went to Genoa and learned the hard wood trade here just Justinian is over here a

fish photograph was probably taken in the 1890s I when older gentleman and he

died 1897 but what care did he wanted to come to

California as an augur or not and but he wasn’t really interested in gold he was

interested in establishing a business in San Francisco because his thought was

I’ll bring the inventory over with me sell it for 10 20 times what I say boy

because that’s what was happening in the san francisco area after the discovery

of gold it was highly inflationary and so without taxes his little business

with a real money machine and it would eventually became known as a Justinian’s

care company sure this is an invoice

that gives a lot of information about the sustaining care company that they

expanded their business to deal with

metals and chlorine shares and when the

vineyards became popular in California they provided a lot of supplies for the

different vineyards and this is the building that existed up until the time

under San Francisco fire and earthquake in 1906 and that building was completely

demolished but the significant of the gestating care company is because it was

such a cash cow that allowed him the flexibility to buy out the other owners

of santa cruz island of the santa cruz island company and eventually allowed

him also the financial wherewithal to build a a significant agricultural

colony on the island now this is the the

care family 1908 this is after just any fares death and this has I think most of

the care and some of the offspring and the care family after Justinian’s died

the two married daughters ended up in litigation the lasted 20 years again

their siblings and they’re their mothers so I think the best way to understand the care era

which I say in those starts at 1880 is

the first phase was when during Justin Karen’s life and most of the

infrastructure the heights of the ranching operation was during Justinian cares like life after he dies in the

next 40 years 20 years of that 40 years was meshed in litigation and that’s

probably the last family photo that they took now here begins 1880 so here you

can see the the buildings here which really replicate some of the

architecture of French farmhouses in the

French countryside and compare this with what you saw on Alvin’s painting in 1855

so the height of with all this building

going on in the 1880s and 1890s the ranch at that time was employing about

110 people this is the the warehouse

twin warehouse it was built 1887 made from Island bricks and this is a great

photograph you can see the workers and the sides of the warehouse the reason that the warehouse was was built was

because they wanted to be able to store the wool and gauge when the market was

right to ship it to the mainland other way otherwise they would be at the mercy of the people that were buying it on the

mainland and the Wolves acts you know they were 400 350 to 400 pounds 8 and

from 1885 to 1896 the island company was

producing 800 will sack a year so they had a prodigious amount

wool that they were making distance with

chapel that was built 1891 you can see that it’s nestled in with vineyards that

are just starting to mature takes you know several years you just don’t go

plant vine and expected to burst it to produce if they it takes a while and the

chapel is is still there but the care family learned that building a chapel

doesn’t prevent family squabbles now here’s a diagram of the different

sub branches on the island and that was a concept that was expanded by care he

didn’t create the concept because in 1870 there was already a sub branch at

the Scorpion rant and of course and the Christie ranch right here the first

structure was built in the 1860s when Baron had the property but what care did

is he expanded it and in addition to expanding it he decided to build a phone

system from Scorpion to smugglers to the main ranch to prisoners all the way out

to Christie’s and maybe they had some other extension so the whole idea is the

ranch the size of the island is so big that you had to control this different

operation and that’s what he was trying to do and here’s a nice picture of the

smugglers house which is still there on at Smuggler’s Cove and again you can see

the French architect French architecture and now bill running

a ranch is one thing running a ranch on an island is another complexity that

most people don’t even dream of chair was getting tired of watch

schedules of the coast steamers you know they say they be a prisoner’s Harbor and

such a date and they don’t show up and Terra decided he was going to take things in his own hand so he

commissioned a boat ride famous blow fight up in this San Francisco named

Matthew Turner and who expanded his operation over Jim Benicia and his cares

direction to Turner was make sure you build it strong and the schooners here

is 64 feet long and the total weight is

substantial 43 tons with an 18-foot being so it was a very very sturdy boat

and my grandmother was on the maiden voyage in 1893 but it went over to Santa

Cruz here the Santa Cruz is heading into

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you see back here in Han San Francisco as its home for well the boat was moored

in Santa Barbara a San Francisco which where the business was operated and

that’s the reason that they have San Francisco on there now the schooner

Santa Cruz served the island from 1893 and 1960 and in 1960 it broke its

moorings and in a east wind and it went

on the rocks on the west portion of prisoners Harbor and as an old captain

other senators described it red frame who operated the Santa Cruz both for the

cares and the stands he describes as well to just broke broken moorings and

when on the rocks and beat herself to death so you can just visualize what was

happening if so was a four boat lovers it wasn’t a pretty sight

livestock ranching on Santa Cruz that I have 1882

1984 because you know nothing really changed as far as how you rounded up

sheep here you see a posse of Vaqueros here and I think there’s 16 over law in

Scorpion Valley there’s a full twin

warehouse on a barn and this section of the barn was a shearing said in the

story wool on that section of mark over here is the first eucalyptus Grove and

that’s where the first camp that the first campsite that you’re seeing in scorpion Valley today and the theory

with all the writers and everything is that you would just fan out and push the

sheet down to lower elevations in this instance down to squirting valley in the

middle ranch they push them down to the main valley there and the other sheering

major shearing stations was F Christie but I like this photo because if there’s

any hint that you want to be a sheep rancher herding sheep this is in the middle of the summer it’s probably

between 80 and 90 degrees and this is what the Sheep do when they run and

you’re pretty exhausted when you’re finish rounding up cheese I can tell you that and you don’t want to be a shoe

either that they spent probably eight hours a day sharing it’s back-breaking

work and you can see right here that

he’s using an flippers so they would probably cheer about sub the animals for

sure in a day and the greenie ranch we started using electric

here in 1939 and a good share of electric chairs could clip about a

hundred animals and this I can’t even imagine what their backs feel like at

the end of eight hours and this is what is a result of all that cheering and

these are the wool sacks I was talking about that are either were stored in the

warehouse waiting for good market condition and they’re being loaded in

you know these these are cumbersome sacks and when I was growing up my dad

thought it’d be a good idea getting laid for high school football that I sack a

lot of wool and I then began to think you know maybe I’d better think about a

law career because because it is you get

in there and you literally you can’t get out it’s up then they throw polices that do and you just keep stomping on the

fleece until you and you come you finally your head pops out at the top and then you tie it off and you always

flips go is want those little nuts because they help turn the set 1884

Karen decided that he wanted to experiment with vineyards there was a

kind of practice in California and and

most acreage that was developed was between 175 and 200 acres and in a fully

mature vine they could produce one acre could produce anywhere from 150 to 600

gallons per acre so the height of the height of the wine production in Santa

Cruz Island was I believe 1910 when they produced 83 thousand gallons so wasn’t

it was probably one of the largest wine operations in Santa Barbara County at

the time they were growing primary the Zinfandel because I was a hearty

great and bear in mind that the there was no irrigation system this is dry

farming and a lot of back-breaking work

and so by because the vines were taking

and it was successful the Santa Cruz Island company decided to build the

winery on the side of the hill and here’s the fermenting and crushing

buildings they would bring the cutting there put them in boxes and put the

boxes on the truck or wagon I take it up dump it into the crusher and then the

juices were flowing the fermenting things and the fermenting tanks could hold about 42,000 gallons and then after

a couple months the wine juices would

drain down into the cellar here and they had all kinds of different I think there

were four different wine containers that

could hold 11,000 gallons of each and the total capacity of the winery the

kubrick’s was about a hundred seventy six thousand gallons so they could hold

a couple of seasons of wine but they had to move it here’s a wine label that was

designed by Arthur care it’s very artistic but it was probably rarely

years because santa cruz wasn’t producing wine by the bottle if you ever

find one with a label and wine in it you might it might be worth something but

they were uh they were shipping in both 50 50 gallon containers that you see

here they’re loading them onto the santa cruz and and then they would ship them

either to santa barbara San Francisco or Los Angeles here you

can see they had a wine depo in Santa Barbara Santa Cruz Island wine depo and

so that’s where they ship primarily invoke now of course you can imagine

what effect prohibition had on the wine industry on Santa Cruz Island that

pretty much destroyed it but the heart out of it but they still sold the grapes

so they contracted with gentlemen maratti and Georgie that agreed to pay

the workers to pick it and put them in the boxes and shipping on the Santa Cruz

over to the mainland principally Santa Barbara and you know during Prohibition

anything the most alcohol that you could have was a half a percent anything more

was illegal well the Italians in Santa Barbara didn’t do the math right so they

just made it whatever wine names they wanted and so that so it wasn’t just

fruit juice that they were making in Santa Barbara during Prohibition but after prohibition you can see they

were actually selling Santa Cruz Island wine and with Appalachian here and you

can tell if after prohibition because it’s got the 14 percent by volume but

that’s a very good-looking label and this is a picture of again by Tim HOF

looking west on the island and you can see how rugged it is it’s it’s the

massive piece of real estate and like I said doing that 20 years of litigation

is unheard of but six cases went up for California Supreme Court on the island

alone own the end part of all of that litigation is a court in Santa Barbara

said this place we need to appoint referees to survey the island and that

took place 1923 time frame took probably

a 237 days I think in US 37,000 which

today is about a half a million so it was a very extensive survey and here you

see what looks like a gargoyle wondering what the heck is going on and and the

result of all of this negligent literally measured tried to measure every foot of the island and

this is the result of all that partition surveying and the island was divided

into seven parcels and each parcel this size would depend on how many shares you

own in the santa cruz island company the two married daughters had the smallest

share they were here parcel six in parcel seven and the referees thought

that this family has been at it for twenty years so we’re going to put the married dollars over here and separated

by have that month annyeong which is 1800 feet high and had no road to the

other side they felt that the mountain yawn will be a good barrier between them

and the rest of the family now the rest of the family rest of the care family

sold in their river the island which is about ninety percent of it to edge

stanton in 1937 National Park Service have fired the east and after in the

1990s and van went when Terry Stanton died go back there when ferry Stanton

died in 1987 all of this ownership here

went to the Nature and then the Park Service and the Nature Conservancy got together and so this is

the current boundary between the two indices of our Chairman is owning about

a quarter and the Nature Conservancy on the other and the person Nature

Conservancy dedicated to preserving the island just as a park is the partition

spawn to who ranching generations here you see 1934

passport photo of of the Stanton family here’s young Kerry fear ed Stanton his

wife Evelyn and Ed jr. the ED jr. was really destined to take over the island

because carrying is a more academic kind and Kerry went on to medical school and

became a doctor it’s been I love this photo of Ed he’s not drinking lemonade I

can tell you that he was an oil man from Los Angeles very successful businessman

and he he loved the island he tried his

hand at sheep ranching the Sheep didn’t do what he expected them to do they

broke loose and went with her wild brethren in the hills and so he gave up

that and then started either killing or shipping sheep off you want nothing to

do with sheep he settled on a small cattle operation pretty much decides at

the chairs had he had no change for the wine business so he arranged with the

federal government to shut down the winery and he did this in 1930 39

federal agent said you have to have a federal agent they’re making sure that your decommissioning your cellars and

under the watchful eye the Fed agent and to the dismay a lot of the

workers they open the spigot sandrine 25,000 gallons on to the road and the

pigs were loving it this is this is

Eddie jr. right here he’s a strapping guy 220 loved women did like studying

he joined like a lot of young men World War two his unit landed on DJ d-day

which we just honored the other day at Utah Beach their objective was to move on to sure

bond and the end of June he received a

letter from his wife that she just gave birth to a son he was elated and two

weeks later his unit under came under fire from the Germans and he was killed

in a motive effect so here’s a younger

brother Kerry I knew Kerry personally I got along with them but the you just had

to be careful which buttons he pushed and he was very passionate about

preserving the island now Heath becomes the second doctor to give up his medical practice to manage the island his

parents were getting ill so in 1957 he took over the operation of the island

and managed it for 30 years and he said

it was the best decision he ever made in his life and he says you cannot compare that era of Santa Cruz Island with any

place out it’s like he lived in Los Angeles sorry so we knew that the

pristine air of Santa Cruz was a welcome but tarry at times could be very difficult to get along with he didn’t

get along with Edie the third his brother’s son and they ended up in a

lawsuit and again it was very much like the care litigation it’s

Terry and add the third were smart enough to say you know what we’re not

going to spend 20 years of litigation like that that care so they settled in that impetus for settling was that they

were able to bring nature conservancy’s and the fund or settlement and but no

sooner in the english dry that agreement and that carry got in dispute with the

nature conservancy because over the Hunt Club because Nature Conservancy wanted

to eliminate the sheet because you know they wanted to conserve the island and

the sheet or a valuable entity because they the hunt flood generated

substantial most so anyway this is the context of the quote I just do not want

to be pushed around let me alone and let me care for Santa Cruz Island and that’s

how he died he wanted absolute control over who went over the island and if you

invited if you were invited over by Kerry Stanton you damn well better at sent him my thank-you note within two

weeks or you were never invited back I was always saying thank you dick Kerry

now the other family error of course is my family the greeny family we took over

on a grandfather took over in 1926 the

end of the partition face it’s clear that the the Greenies had no boat they

had no communication they had no peer had no clue what they were doing

wrenching on an island much less she French so they figured it out or at

least my grandfather did and because it was like my dad said well which is kind

of romantic to have an island and work well his father disabused him of the

notion that this is going to be fun because my dad actually took a year off

of law school and spent a year on the island and that was passed down to my

generation this is an interesting photo because this was the first peer that the

Greenies made the dishes in early 1930s very ramshackle peer and this is the

current location of where the Park Service wants to serve their new peer so it’s a historically in the like location

this little shack up there was fishing

camps that were situated or longing around the East and they were owned by

the large a fish company in Santa Barbara and the Greenies had this deal with the Larco fish company that it will

let you use your fish camp on the island if you let us transport some goods and

people to and from the island on your boat and so that was an arrangement that worked until the Greenies built their

own peer and got their own so I talked about the island being is about people

and here’s Joe Briggs he’s kind of one of I I like Joe

Gregg’s because I did know him well because he left the island in 1956 he

came from Oklahoma at very little education formal education couldn’t write but he

read Popular Mechanics he loved he could my father said don’t do almost anything

but life and but even he showed the kind of ingenuity that island owners showed

over the years and years is because you have to figure things out you have to do

it with the supplies you have on him and so he persuaded my dad to build this

sawmill up in the first campground now with the Park Service entered first stamp front and he Joe saw they used

electrician home that’s a lot of lumber and everything so he built its elaborate sawmill and my dad was I know maybe he’s

covering his Trac he says the fact we didn’t need a meal and no way distracted from the ingenuity and skill that went through

its making well my father did realize also that when you collect disguises

it’s useless Asian lumber it’s it hardens a twist so they couldn’t use it

on the work at all so it no was eventually dismantled here is the the

hives Hodges was our second folk it was built

in 1943 built by the Armistice one of their key boats as they call them in

fill the tray of Transportation and equipment in the Aleutian island it was

a wonderful ranch boat it’s only drawback it was painfully slow and going

from Santa Cruz to Scorpius across that angle you’re in a beam wave and so it’s

very difficult I mean the rocking and rolling so unfortunately I was on the

sucker in January in 1976 we were leaving Santa Barbara Harbor which is we

might go during the wintertime it’s so soft so there’s an entrance for the

harbor is very narrow and we hit the sand board or scraped for sandberg

pulled back off and we had a light load he had 15 55-gallon drums of gasoline

and cherishing that we’re taking to the island so about three miles out and my

uncle said to me and he says something’s wrong with an engine in my soundcheck

and pops right back up and says we’re sinking I said I don’t think I like this

so I got everybody in the life preservers and then I went to open the

front cargo hatch was about ten feet deep and you could put another 20 25 of

those big wheel straps in there and when I opened it up

it was half full of water and I never learned to swim and I figured this might

be my first swim lesson in Santa Barbara Channel so I was a little apprehensive

until I saw the Coast Guard on the horizon the point kakuta plowing that 22

knots kids are seeing that sinking that was a prettiest sight that I can

remember and you can just vision the vessel like the island range it’s a

little bit smaller but it’s the same idea but the bow going up crashing down

to me it was it was a powerful love boat and when I got off the water was deck

level and for some reason the captain wanted to tow the hides back to Santa

Barbara I don’t know maybe it was my uncle they said that or asked for that but point Judith had two twin twin

engines each capable of 800 horsepower and you tethered to the hives and just

trying to pull it and all of a sudden you heard the captain bark out like I could hear like it was yesterday

cutter loose and so the Hyde’s mercifully split between the waves a

little bit more dignity than the way the santa cruz feed herself on the rock the

next year we were back in operation using the the Carroll which is built by

Lynn wold Boat Works in Santa Barbara and for the Santa Cruz I mean for the

Vale Vickers company of Santa Rosa it was is a beautifully built vessel

specifically to hold livestock so we could haul about 550 to 600 sheep now

one of my duties on this thing mind you on and now practicing law from one of my

duties was to be a deckhand when was taking the sheets of Port Hueneme

and you go around with on the deck while it’s underway and if she gets on its

knees you pull it up so it doesn’t suffocate or if it gets on the gunnels you pull it back down so it doesn’t jump

over and by the time you get to Miami you’re soaked in urine and everything

else that comes out of a sheet and I think we would have qualified for micros

dirty jobs there’s TV serie on them anyway here it is this is a second to

the last chapter this is on the preservation of the island and here

there’s not 600 plants known on Santa Cruz Island versus the silver Lotus it’s

only known to exist on Santa Cruz Island and here’s the scrub jay one of about

140 different Birds on Santa Cruz Island and it too is only known to just on

Santa Cruz Island now we grew up and sure my father grew up everything on the

island dependent on the weather I can I can remember my father was being

in a million times and we asked a question when are we going except for sehri it’s weather permitting well

weather permitting is just simply means that weather dominates what you do on

the island this was this was in December

1997 when an El Nino storm hit the east end of the island it was about 14 inches

of rain that hit the east end of the

island in a 48-hour 48-hour period of time and it just devastated we lost a

lot of historic equipment and including the old blacksmith shop and it was

really sad and here’s at the next day following the storm and here you can see

the bunkhouse almost floated out to sea that’s the historic bunk down they got

caught up in the tree and so between 2005 and 2009 the Park

Service got the property ready for public years and this is kind of a

highlight Island Museum was opened in

2009 and one of my favorite exhibits in there is the video from stir the video

of my and my grandmother took 16 millimeter famine in nineteen forties

and fifties of the sharing operation it’s the only known video and only known

movie of the Sharon II operation you can see that on the Park Service website on

your welcome media so it’s it’s about ten minutes or when you would be able to

get out to scorpion going in the kitchen and take a look at it and here’s the old um the island box

that everybody loves and the Eagles golden eagles were feeding the Fox to

extinction and that is the culprit he

belongs in the post office they were going after the piglets and they just

added the Fox because they were similar size for the diet and the first figure

of ruling and destroying archeological sites and causing the roads and so the

Park Service and Nature Conservancy got together they live captured what

remaining Fox are worth and Leslie around maybe 50 but out of the beginning

number of thousand the Fox population was just decimated put on the endangered

species list they then fenced off the entire island Santa Cruz in the five zones and

systematically eliminated the page in the zone they live captured the Golden

Eagles and brought in to the mainland and reintroduced bald eagles for the island which bald eagles don’t really

like piglets and fox they go after the fish

and then when everything was working they release the Fox from captivity and

the Fox announced writing today so much silver they’ve been taken off the endangered species list and here as an

early photograph of island workers filling in the wetlands and fresheners

harbored for ranch uses and the Park Service in the Nature Conservancy got

together to re-establish the wetland with Santa Cruz Island and it’s one of

the few wetlands remaining and they’ve

removed I think was something like ten thousand cubic yards of soil and another

thousand trees of eucalyptus and relocated that Corral’s and got rid of

all Pachulia in the fennel so anyway the

sights and sounds that you hadn’t heard for years and now returning to for prisoners for bird wetland this is the

last chapter and I was trying loja how

do I end this book because it was growing by leaps and Mount and I saw

this picture and some a number like it I said you know this has to bring the island story about people enjoying the

island and this photograph was taken in 1897 and you can notice the dress you

know they’re they’re just hanging out and look at this lady right here she’s

pretty serious and I don’t know what she’s shooting but anyway it’s it was

the reason I had this chapter because there’s a lot of people even when it was

under private ownership they got to enjoy the island this is of course the

Eden’s Pelican Bay exam they had an arrangement with the Santa Cruz Iron Company and

like company like that is one they got revenue into if presided gave a presence

on the islands of people wouldn’t be trespassing and so on and so forth so

you can see it started out with tents and then they ended up building little

cabins and then the same dining room and literally if the rich and the famous

were coming from everywhere to santa cruz island to enjoy that and

the time the Eaton’s had it they were I believe something like 27 different

movies that were produced on the island and this lasted until the early 1930s

and the Eaton’s had their own boat the Teen Wolf which brought people from

particularly Santa Barbara out for the day or whatever stay they arranged so it

wasn’t just the rich and famous in yachts that could come out the same wolf unfortunately that a similar traits like

that schooner santa cruz broke its mooring the southeast storm and went on

the beach this is what you’ll see at santa cruz island now you see the

kayakers enjoying the sea Jade and I

like this quote because it really epitomizes National Park legacy the best

idea we’ve ever had absolutely American absolutely Democratic they reflect us at

our best rather than or worse and there are about

400 units from the National that the National Park manages when battlefield

the monuments the 59 now National Park and last year alone 320 million people

visited these different things which is a testament that really the National

our national park system is everybody’s part and really an American Legacy the

last slide is a favorite hiking spot for

people to go to the east end of the island this is potato Harbor don’t ask

me how it got its name I just assumed it looked like a potato so anyway there’s

my contact information if you had I want to email me or whatever my daughter

because she thinks I’m pretty done with electronics actually created a website

and your dad you’ve got to be able to have people go on Amazon I said well

what’s Amazon anyway she took care of it so you can do a little that those of you

know how to Google but anyway that’s the end of the presentation I hope that

gives you some feel of the rich history of Santa Cruz Island

[Applause]

thank you John for sharing your wealth of knowledge about time accrues island we have time for a couple questions I

[Music] entered in fries Harbor a cove on the

north west side and there were some rail tracks in that little cove would you

happen to know what they were doing there they were excavating for watch

quarries Rock for Santa Barbara Harbor in the 1920s early 1930s so that’s where

he’s going to Santa Barbara breakwater that’s where the rock cave and occurs

so what do you think about the Scorpion Pierre going like right in the middle of the river way like it wasn’t the power

I’m not going to enter into a political discussion I mean it you know I mean

like you saw in the film it’s historically correct initially you know

my father built that cement fear the

only problem is one he wasn’t an engineer and he probably should have got

an engineer because they built it too too low and then when the Park Service took over they actually raised it up but

and even raising it up it’s til death damaged so anyway I leave that to the

people a lot smarter than me you have

any knowledge of the research station that was established in its history on the airlin well the Harry Stanton’s I

mean the University of California yeah Kerry Stanton work they had an agreement

with University of California and that was the origin event I think it’s expanded since that time that started at

for those in the 1960

we’ve found the remains I think was an oil well did they ever actually get any oil no no it was just an attempt it was

on there Jim yeah they there was actually a couple efforts on the east end of where they

drill for oil and it wasn’t just the east of during the care

they include different a chance to build all they never found and do you know if

anybody’s tried to build a bureau with smugglers smugglers no they didn’t and

because the wave action is too difficult and it’s been looked at and it was

looked at when our family devised a master plan in the 1960s and if you

notice it it’s shallow and the waves come in and they just crack crack down

and yes exactly they should that says this is not a good place for up here I

used to be a hunting camp and smugglers is that testree in the in the book not

so much other than to mention it but certainly in my first book it was

published in 1997 yeah there was the hunting plant island adventures at you

know more it was established in the 1980s and actually was the first person

to establish a hunting camp as such I was dr. fairies dancing on the other end

of the island again in 1960

it was before light time visiting Santa Cruz but I heard overhead valleys on the

south side there used to be a Navy base and a submarine would surface right near

the island I don’t know much about that I know that get on the backside of Santa

Cruz I Celica at Santa Cruz Island or the Santa Cruz basin or Canyon the depths of the island

the depth of the water is in that area or about 6,400 feet and during the

1960’s for about 30 years the Navy was doing acoustical testing of anything

from ships to submarines so I don’t know whether it’s related but there’s

certainly for scientific studies going on by the United States government yeah

times vary one more question thank you

for coming and doing this for us there’s a sense of history I have a question about the twin warehouse yeah the doors

were very fascinating they were twice as tall as the men and the way they open were from the middle it look like they

went cycles can you why they were so big some tall I imagine well a couple things

one I don’t know whether the what you see on the slide is distorted and it

could be but still they I mean you see it in person they were big because you

see those big wool sacks and so they would wanted to be able to bring the

most acts into the warehouse they’re in store so

well actually they they had a rail system whereby they could put them on a

little carriage on you know traction you could push it the augment appear from

the warehouse so it was pretty ingenious I don’t know about the billows and after

that thank you once again to John can

you presentation laughter thank you for being here tonight kind of safe that home [Applause]