Field Day
Battle Creek Meadows Ranch
September 10, 2016 | Time: 9:00am - 3:00pm
In 1894, W.E. Gerber, a Sacramento resident, purchased Battle Creek Meadows Ranch as a summer home for his family. During his lifetime, he turned this unimproved property into a profitable, self-sustaining ranch that his family could enjoy for many generations. Today, our family continues the tradition of stewardship that he began.
The Ranch consists of 1,215 acres of northern Sierra meadowlands and 910 acres of forestlands located in Mineral, CA, at 5,000 ft elevation with the headwaters of Battle Creek (South Fork), four miles of tributary streams, and several natural springs. Timber products and pasture rental are our primary sources of income. In our fifth generation of family ownership, the Ranch continues to manage and maintain the property for our future generations and the benefit of the region as natural open space.
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Carolyn and David Beans
Story captured by Denise Levine
On August 29, 2001, The San Francisco Chronicle reported: “Fire forces evacuation of Trinity County town. Hundreds flee “totally chaotic scene in historic Weaverville.” The report went on to say the blaze, called the Oregon Fire, had quickly consumed 1,600 acres, forcing the closure of Highway 299. Smoke could be seen 24 miles away in Hayfork.
“It’s crazy out there,” said a CDF spokesman. “There are two heads on the fire, so it’s moving in two different directions. It’s ugly.”
But Carolyn and David Beans knew that. They lived on Oregon Mountain, just outside of Weaverville on the way to Eureka, California where the Oregon Fire was heading toward the 80 acres of Doug fir, sugar pine and incense cedar they owned.
David and Carolyn bought their first piece of land on Oregon Mountain in 1978. There was no electricity to the property, but there was a barn, a water tank and a propane generator in a shed.
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"The forests must be, and will be, not only preserved but used, and the experience of all civilized countries that have faced and solved the question show that the forests, like perennial fountains, may be made to yield a sure harvest of timber while at the same time all their far-reaching beneficent uses may be maintained unimpaired."
-John Muir, 1895
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