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Check Out The Library, 2021 Spring Issue, Humboldt State University Library

Library Publications

Issue 12

• Discovering Humboldt
• Circulation on the Go
• Add a Dash of Library to Spice up Your Teaching and Learning
• Project-based Learning: Citing Insights
• Course Reserves
• Building Bridges and Connecting Communities
• Upcoming Events: Fred Korematsu Day, Authors Celebration, and ideaFest

Humboldt Bay Shoreline, North Eureka To South Arcata: A History Of Cultural Influences, Jerry Rohde

Trade & Scholarly Monographs

In 1850 the area east of Arcata Bay was a tapestry of wetlands and sloughs, fringed by conifer-clad hillsides. Canoe channels and trails connected a string of Wiyot villages that nearly encircled the bay.

Then white settlers arrived, establishing towns at Eureka and Union (Arcata). With them came profound changes in the landscape. Rock quarries. Log drives. “Reclaimed” ranchland. An airport. Four and a half railroads. In 170 years the area was transformed into a web of structures and infrastructures that connected what became the two largest cities in Humboldt County.

Recently a new period of change has begun, promising …