A screen of fog lifted to reveal a bright blue stretch of the Pacific Ocean on Monday — unveiling what will soon be the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary. The Northern Chumash Tribal ...

Going forward, the new Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary will be managed in partnership with tribes and Indigenous groups in the area, who will advise the federal government. It marks a ...

A screen of fog lifted to reveal a bright blue stretch of the Pacific Ocean on Monday — unveiling what will soon be the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary. The Northern Chumash Tribal ...

Now, in the first partnership of its kind, the area will soon be part of a new national marine sanctuary that Native people will co-steward with a federal agency. It will give the Chumash people ...

The hearing marked a huge milestone in the designation of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, spanning thousands of miles off the coast of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.

The Biden administration, members of Congress and Native tribes commemorated the designation of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary on Monday — the first such preserve in California ...

Vulnerable wildlife, including endangered southern sea otters, leatherback sea turtles, and blue whales, can now, officially, find sanctuary along the Central Coast. A decades-long campaign to ...

The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary has officially been declared a sanctuary by the Biden-Harris Administration. The site will cover 4,543 square miles of ocean and 116 miles of ...

The Chumash sanctuary will be the first national marine sanctuary in the nation proposed by a Native American tribe. The Northern Chumash Tribe, based in Los Osos, near Morro Bay, began advocating ...

The waters off Central California are now part of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, the result of a decades-long campaign by local Indigenous leaders. (Mario Tama/Getty Images ...