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== Brief History of Humboldt Bay == The original inhabitants of Humboldt Bay were the Wiyot Indians. Having lived in the bay and surrounding areas for thousands of years the natives found everything they needed for sustenance in the bay. This harmonious relationship was to come to an end with the arrival of white settlers and the Gold Rush in 1849. By 1870, tide gates were installed and diking around the bay began to provide agricultural lands for the newly arrived settlers. Thus, the bay was transformed from its original state of a brackish salt-water tidal marsh system to a fresh water "grazed lands" system. Further alteration of the wetlands came from the timber boom-taking place in the 1940's. The effects of hasty logging practices that utilized upstream water corridors as transportation routes for fallen logs changed stream morphology and degraded stream health and fisheries from excess sediment being added to the system. In 1964 an additional 40 acres of marshland was filled in to site an ocean side landfill. Less than 10 years later, in 1970, the site had contaminated the surrounding land and toxic leachate had found its way into the bay. In 1973 the site was condemned by the Department of Health and Arcata had to decide what to do with the contaminated site. A few ideas: a golf course, baseball field a motor cross area, a nature center and marsh recreation area. Ultimately the city decided on the latter choice.
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