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https://www.reefcheck.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/survey2000_0825_01.jpg400246The 2025 monitoring season not only marks our 20th year of kelp forest monitoring, but also has the added excitement of the completion of our 2,000th kelp forest monitoring survey! After some uncertainty as to exactly which region would mark the special occasion and despite rough seas, seasick divers and the ticking clock, Southern California had the honor of completing the 2,000th survey at Cathedral Cove off Anacapa Island