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Siskiyou was also a timber-dependent county. It still has production, but that is mostly coming off of Sierra Pacific private lands in South County. Fruit Growers (Sunkist) has been stopped in their tracks in the west county by spotted owl and salmon rules - so much that they tried to sell their lands and no one would touch them.

The western county is mostly US Forest Service managed lands and nothing of substance has come from them in a decade. There is extreme poverty in these former timber-dependent communities like Happy Camp, which are poised to be torched as a consequence of paralyzing environmental regulation.

This is so ironic as county fathers actually invited and solicited the feds to create national forests in our west county to PROTECT THEM and the VALUABLE TIMBER from forest fires that were occurring at the turn of the century.

Hi neighbors, sorry for not getting back to you but Eureka had sunshine today so we had a holiday. The fog rolled in at 4;30 so the party is over. I know Sierra Pacific very well as they had their start here yeas ago by "Curley" Emerson. His son "Red" is in charge now. He was the one who got the inside track on Southern Pacifics desire to sell all the timberlands they got in the 1860s to build the transcontinential railroad. Sierra Pacific is the largest landowner in Calif.

Yes I remember the TeePee burners of old. Monday was wash day because the mills didn't run on Sunday so all the housewives hung the wash out on Monday morning and took them in before the ash started to fall. My wifes father was head sawyer for Hammond Lumber in Samoa, across the bay from Eureka. He died in 1955 from heart failure. Owed his sole to the company store. GVgirl, I'm surprised to hear that
Redwood grows in Plumas County ?