Arcata Expanding Arcata Community Forest – Jacoby Creek Tract by 114 Acres
This is a press release from the City of Arcata:
The City of Arcata is pleased to announce that the City will be expanding the Jacoby Creek Forest by 114 acres.
The expansion was made possible thanks to over $1.5 million dollars in funding provided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Proposition 1 Watershed Restoration Grant Program, the CAL FIRE Forest Legacy-California Climate Investments Program, the California Natural Resources Agency’s Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation Grant Program, the City of Arcata and local donations made to the Humboldt Area Foundation’s Arcata Forest Fund.
The land to be acquired is known as the “Swaner Property,” as it will be purchased from the Swaner Family Limited Partnership. This private parcel shares 1.5 miles of boundary with the Arcata Community Forest and is considered to be an important wildlife habitat that has been included in a Conceptual Area Protection Plan by California’s Wildlife Conservation Board.
“We are very grateful to the Swaner family for working with the City of Arcata on this addition to the Jacoby Creek Forest. This acquisition will help protect working forestland and wildlife habitat and benefit the community for generations,” said Mark André, City of Arcata Environmental Services Director, of the expansion.
For more information on the City’s Environmental Services Department, please visit cityofarcata.org or call (707)-822-8184.
The City of Arcata is pleased to announce that the City will be expanding the Jacoby Creek Forest by 114 acres.
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Another taxpayer boondoggle! We are continually being fed that our tax dollars will be spent wisely and the public will benefit from those tax dollars. The City can’t even keep up the Parks they currently have, the bums and tansients are destroying those areas and greenbelts. Look at what is happening off of
Giuntoli Lane and the new park adjacent to the Mad River.
This is very similar to what is happening at the County with the purchase of the McKay Tract from Green Diamond back in 2014. That purchase started the McKay Community Forest, it was discussed starting back in 2012 as being a good deal because timber harvest dollars would be used to offset the taxpayer costs…..that was over 6 years ago, there has been no timber harvest to date and what is more alarming no trails have been completed, or even started. The McKay Community Forest is not even officially opened yet!!
Again, mis management of our money, and the upkeep is being funded out of taxpayers dollars not harvesting as promised.
Uri Driscoll and his taxpayer group should be all over this mis-use of taxpayers dollars.
people are swarming in and outta there like there’s a ice cream stand down in the valley.
homeless have been camped up and down the Mad from the pumps down for decades. granite’s departure had the biggest effect on the infill of homeless in that area. I find very often that people complain about things and blame entities they don’t like without a clue of what is actually going on. for example the needle exchange which started in 2017 and the eureka heroin epidemic started in the 90s and only get worse with the cheap and readily available black tar.
Another gift of taxpayer money to the wealthy. The Swaner family are Barnums. Wonder if they logged it to death before they sold it.
The Arcata Community Forest and associated Sunnybrae and Jacoby Creek forests are fully self-sufficient from timber harvest revenues. Every year a timber harvest is conducted, which supplies the funds necessary for forest management, road and trail maintenance and development, land acquisition cost-share, and also helps support other park management activities throughout the City. In addition, the City derives other revenue from the forest in the form of selling carbon credits to the public, public utilities, and commercial enterprises. All in all, a good net positive cash flow.
The city of Arcata cannot now keep the parks up. Gaining all this land is a utopian’s dream, but there are maintenance costs the city cannot afford. Period. That is why they are floating a bond measure (lien on houses) to pay for maintenance. If you can’t afford it, you don’t buy it. Don’t believe me ask Andre
what does the city of Arcata plan to do with the purchase ?
Expand it.
enforce their commie rule on it. if it is in arcata they can close it down when the feel they want to