San Nicolas Island was officially handed off to the U.S. Navy by President Herbert Hoover in 1933. Besides being temporarily borrowed by the U.S. Army and used as a gunnery range during World War ...

The U.S. Navy conducted an annual coastal cleanup on the remote beaches of San Nicolas Island (SNI), the most isolated of the California Channel Islands, located about 60 miles offshore, and South ...

Each fall, a dedicated crew of experienced biologists travels to San Nicolas Island — part of Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) — to conduct the annual No paywalls. No subscriptions.

The San Nicolas Island cats made international headlines when they were first brought to Ramona back in 2012. ... Cats had been living wild on the U.S. Navy-owned island since at least the 1950s, ...

Don’t mistake isolated for unpopulated, though. San Nicolas Island is home to around 200 military and civilian personnel at any given time. San Clemente Island is also owned by the U.S. Navy and ...