Humboldt County, located in Northern California, has been the setting for many impactful and historical changes in a short amount of time. Due to its dramatic geographical features, including 300 miles of rugged undeveloped coastline, six rivers, two mountain ranges, some of the only remaining old growth coastal redwood forests as well as countless other species of wildlife. The region of Humboldt County has always been treasured for its raw and natural resources.

Until the mid-to-late 1800’s, diverse and multicultural Native American societies flourished in high populations along the Pacific Northwest, descending from ancient ancestral arrivals more than 15,000 years ago. The Wiyot, Yurok, Hupa, Karok, Chilula, Whilkut, and the southern Athabascans, including the Mattole and Nongatl, were among the complex native communities living amongst the ancient virgin forests and untouched interior mountains. Spanish colonialists discovered the North Coast Of Humboldt, arriving into Trinidad Bay in 1775, with the first men touching down on land just south into Humboldt Bay in 1806. Humboldt County’s future would be marked economically, as an epicenter for an immense natural resource extraction.