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The forest land is located along California State Highway 20 between Willits and the coastal city of Fort Bragg. It is named after Jacob Green Jackson, [1] founder of Caspar Lumber Company, which formerly owned the land. [2] The forest holds sacred value as an ancestral home and ceremonial site for the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians. [3]
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) operates eight Demonstration State Forests totaling 71,000 acres. The forests represent the most common forest types in the state. The State Forests grow approximately 75 million board feet of timber annually and harvest an average of 30 million board feet each year, enough to ...
Jackson Demonstration State Forest: 48,652 acres (196.89 km 2) Mendocino: Fort Bragg: 1949 [3] Las Posadas State Forest: 796 acres (3.22 km 2) Napa: Angwin [2] LaTour Demonstration State Forest: 9,033 acres (36.56 km 2) Shasta: Redding: 1949 [4] Mount Zion Demonstration State Forest: 164 acres (0.66 km 2) Amador - 1981 [2] Mountain Home ...
The grove was the first to be affected by the clearcutting of giant sequoia groves by U.S. Forest Service in the 1980s. [7] Features many large giant sequoias along road 13S98A, which runs through the heart of the grove. [8] Boulder Creek Grove: Giant Sequoia National Monument Sequoia National Forest
Jackson State Forest forms roughly a third of the area in the watershed, and land owned by Mendocino Redwood Company, Pioneer Resources, Hawthorne Timber Company and Weger Holdings make up most of the rest. As with most watersheds on the northern California Coast, the most significant ecological problem in the area is increased erosion caused ...
Sanhedrin Mountains in the Mendocino Range with California mixed evergreen forest habitat. The Mendocino Range rises from the California North Coast in southern Humboldt County, to include Bear Mountain, Rainbow Ridge and Gypsy Mountain of the Mattole Range, and Grasshopper Peak, which is the dominant mountain within Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
Caspar Lumber Company land was acquired by the State of California for Jackson State Forest. One of the locomotives was preserved for display at Camp 20. Camp 20 was the easternmost extent of the 35-mile (56 km) railroad.
One point of interest along California State Route 89 includes the Pony Express remount station in Woodfords, the Lake Tahoe Outlet Gates in Tahoe City (control of these gates was the source of the two-decade "Tahoe Water War" between lakeshore owners and downstream Truckee River water users), Plumas-Eureka State Park (containing Johnsville, a ...