- Author: Ryan DeSantis
- Editor: Richard B Standiford
Published on: April 1, 2013
![View of Weaverville Community Forest from California Route 3.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/forestrymgmt/blogfiles/14854small.jpg)
View of Weaverville Community Forest from California Route 3
In the mid-20th Century, the City of Arcata purchased 622 acres of redwood forest and created the first city-owned forest in California. The current 2,350-acre Arcata Community Forest has a multiple use management plan that focuses on recreation, timber management, and watershed values, among other things. The forest provides tremendous aesthetic value and numerous recreational opportunities to the City of Arcata.
In the late 1990s, the Bureau of Land Management considered a land trade that could have compromised the town of Weaverville’s scenic surroundings. Driven by an appreciation for the forests surrounding their town, the...
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