This section by Woody Spurlock
Logging was a huge industry in the arena area because there are so many redwood forests . Logging began in 1866 but really started going in 1869 when the first major logging was built on the Garcia River. When the loggers cut down a tree first it went to the mill, then they cut it into lumber, then it was trucked up to Rollerville Junction where the lumber was stored until they brought it out to a long peer where it was loaded on a boat.
This section by Tim Erwin
The main lumber company was in Fort Bragg. It was the Union Lumber Company. It cut around 50,000,000 board feet a year. It had 1000 workers. Most of the lumber was taken from the Redwood Belt which lies the length of the county and goes inland ten to thirty inland. There were 517,000 acres of redwood with 24,000,000,000 board feet and 158,750 acres of pine and tan oak. There is only 350,000 acres of timberland outside of the Redwood Belt in Mendocino County.