Arcata, California

Arcata is a city in Humboldt County, California, United States. The population was 17,231 at the 2010 census.

Arcata is the Green politics capital of the United States of America, and the home of Humboldt State University. The city is also the location of the Arcata Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Land Management, which is responsible for the administration of natural resources, lands, and mineral programs, including the Headwaters Forest, on approximately 200,000 acres of public land in Northwestern California.

Recent lack of good governance has created conditions where the longest running community organized recycling center in the United States was closed, and the community development corp went bankrupt. The natural beauty of the area is still intact and the people are inclined to freedom of thought and expression, as is in evidence on the Arcata Plaza, main square.

The big, bronze statue of President McKinley in the Central Plaza was put there, to the delight of the then-politically conservative population in 1906, after surviving the 1906 earthquake. Arcata is world famous for the Arcata Marsh, a natural system of sewage treatment which utilizes natural biological systems to treat the municipal wastewater in a non-chemical manner.

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