Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Santa Rosa Island is the second largest of the Channel Islands of California. It is part of the Channel Islands National Park, but the previous owner, Vail & Vickers of Santa Barbara, California--who sold the island to the federal government in 1986--retained the right to continue ranching on the island through 2011. The last domestic cattle were shipped off the island in 1998 but Kaibab mule deer and Roosevelt elk remain. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.