The five islands comprising Channel Islands National Park are home to more than 2,000 plants and animals; 145 of which are found only on these islands. In accordance with Congress’ plan to preserve and monitor the fragile ecosystems of the park off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, we teamed with USGS to provide highly accurate, extremely dense, 3D models of these geographically and biologically diverse islands using the latest helicopter-based lidar technology. The information collected will provide new data to scientists and environmentalist for many years.