Arcata Community Forest harvest runs through August
City of Arcata press release Arcata, CA, August 2, 2019 – The City of Arcata’s Environmental Services Department announced that the City’s timber harvest operations will take place in the Arcata...
View ArticleCity sued over Arcata Ridge Trail routing
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA – A group of residents who live near Fickle Hill Road are suing the City of Arcata over the planned route of the Arcata Ridge Trail. The plaintiffs allege that...
View ArticleArcata forest harvest equipment vandalized
Damaged and tagged equipment. City of Arcata photo Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA COMMUNITY FOREST – Logging equipment owned by contractor Diamond R Ranch was severely vandalized in the Arcata...
View ArticleSuspect named in felony forest equipment vandalism
This trail camera photo was one of several used to identify the vandalism suspect, Alexander Peterson. APD photo Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA – Arcata Police made quick work of a case of...
View ArticleVolunteers naturalizing forest Saturday
Volunteer Trail Stewards ARCATA – On Saturday, Oct. 24, the Volunteer Trail Stewards will be working in the Arcata Community Forest, rehabilitating the sections of Trail No. 1, damaged by this year’s...
View ArticleDedicate or commemorate a forest park bench
IMMORTALITY OF SORTS A green metal commemorative bench. Submitted photo City of Arcata ARCATA – The Environmental Services Department has commemorative park bench sites available in Arcata’s public...
View ArticleForest committee inspects new parcel, harvest
FOREST FORCE Arcata’s citizen-led Forest Management Committee (FMC) hit the trail(s) in recent weeks to give personal scrutiny to a new asset and the aftermath of a recent harvest. First they traveled...
View ArticleArcata enviro-leader Mark Andre leaving an incomparable legacy
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA – For many, Mark Andre is as much a part of the Arcata Community Forest as its surviving old growth redwood trees, all of whom he knows personally. Now, those...
View ArticleForest searched, “Austin” sought after Kneeland death
On April 3, 2022, at about 10:59 a.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a residence on the 4700 block of Greenwood Heights Drive in Kneeland for a suspicious death investigation....
View ArticleVolunteer Trail Stewards work the Sunny Brae Tract
SUNNY BRAE SATURDAY Some 20 volunteers turned out for the Saturday, Feb. 25 Volunteer Trail Steward work day in the Sunny Brae Tract of the Arcata Community Forest. Top, volunteer Valerie Norton...
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