Humboldt County

An Evening with Sam Hodder

by Save the Redwoods League on

Please join us for a free event on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 from 7 – 9 p.m. in Arcata to hear Sam Hodder, Save the Redwoods League President and CEO, speak about the redwoods. Sam Hodder joined Save the Redwoods …

A League of Their Own: The Women Who Started Saving the Redwoods

by Sam Hodder on

On August 8, 1919, Save the Redwoods League founders Madison Grant and Stephen Mather spoke to a packed auditorium in the Northern California mill town of Eureka. They had driven up from San Francisco, where the League had just held its first Board meeting, and they called for local support of the League’s mission to protect the redwoods. To their great surprise, they received a wildly enthusiastic response. Why were hundreds of citizens of Humboldt County, the epicenter of redwood logging operations, so receptive to this message of conservation?

The Eel River, which snakes along the Avenue of the Giants in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, has dozens of secluded and scenic swimming spots. Photo courtesy HRSP/Redwoods.info.

Make a Big Splash Among the Big Trees

by Richard Stenger on

Sweltering summers are perhaps the best time all year to experience the redwood forests in Humboldt County the way locals do, as natural water parks. The Eel River, a federally designated Wild and Scenic River along the Avenue of the Giants, and Redwood Creek, which is surrounded by the world’s tallest trees in Redwood National Parks, have plenty of kid-friendly swimming holes.