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Arcata Community Forest

Arcata, Italy

Arcata Community Forest

The Arcata Community Forest is part of the parks and recreation system of the City of Arcata, California, United States. It was originally created in 1955 from six forest tracts: Gannon Tract, Burns Tract, Preston Tract I, Preston Tract II, Reclamation Water Co. Tract, and Brizard Tract. The main fo

rest area covers 793 acres (3.21 km2). The park was the culmination of efforts to combine tracts of forest land located east of the city together in one continuous section of city-owned second-growth coast redwood forest. Over a 50-year period, 622 acres (2.52 km2) were obtained in several purchases. In November 2006, the 171-acre (0.69 km2) Sunny Brae Forest was added to the Community Forest. The city also owns and manages the 1,200-acre (4.9 km2) Jacoby Creek Forest. The City owns a total of 2,350 acres (9.5 km2) of forest. Prior to European settlement, the land which makes up Arcata Community Forest was occupied by the indigenous Wiyot people. The Wiyot community used the Arcata forestlands for hunting, fishing, as well as other practices. In the 1850s, European settlers began to occupy the Humboldt Bay region and Wiyot people were driven off the land. Until 1964, this land was used as...

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