Humboldt County Library... an example of fine redwood lumber construction. 
Rear View of Eureka Library.
Mom's Car Visits the Library. 1975 Plymouth. Slant six engine, the best ever made.
Inside, the Humboldt County History Room.
Looking out at the Boats of the Eureka Marina.
Murals inside the library on the Children's Room. assorted Fairy Tales. the backgrounds of each painting have been cut out so one may look thru and see the books behind painting.
Sword in the Stone- King Arthur Legend
Paintings inside the Library...
Not only is the Library made of redwood, but the entire area's economy is built on redwood also...
Update: Sept 16th 2009. It's all over... New owners: Mendocino Redwood Corporation, part of THE GAP clothing store business buys Pacific Lumber and starts sustainable logging. Cut only as much as grows... Back to the 100 year plan of the original family business.
Charles Hurwitz sent back to Texas... Not welcome here... owns nothing here... glad to see him gone... He Caused a lot of destruction and poverty...
UPDATE: April 13th 2008: Still battling it out in Court... Charles Hurwitz has been strangely silent this year... Main Lumber Mill still running in Scotia.
UPDATE JULY 2, 2007... This spring, Palco/Maxxax declared Banckruptcy.
The entire redwood timber industry is gradually vanishing. Due to the fact that almost all of the really profitable trees have already been cut down, the main company has closed it's Fortuna and Carlotta mills. Thanks to the efforts of the State of California, the grove of trees called the Headwaters Forest is now a park. I've hiked around there and recommend it highly. To get there from the south, drive on Highway 101 until you are about 10 miles from Eureka. Take a right hand turn on ELK RIVER ROAD and drive another 5 miles up the ELK River Valley to take another Right hand turn... follow the signs for the Headwaters forest. Remember that this is the ELK and not the EEL river... If You are driving north from San Francisco, you will already have passed the EEL river many times...
Another place to visit is the PALCO MILL in the town of Scotia... It is the gigantic yellow building on the left hand side of the road... Originally, it was a family owned company and they built the town of Scotia to house all the millworkers, lumberjacks and their families. There are many examples of redwood lumber buildings in the central part of the town of Scotia. There are also trains and other machinery that was used in the timber industry... It is still a wholly owned company town.
The PACIFIC LUMBER company was the victim of a hostile takeover by MAXXAM corporation using Mike Milken's junk bonds... truly a sad day for the planet... not only has the environment suffered but the employees have suffered also.
These trees came by barge from Washington State to be cut into boards at the Schmidbauer Lumbermill. That mill is working full time... At least SOMEONE has a job... Those poor people that spent a lifetime at Pacific Lumber have had their retirement pensions stolen by Charles Hurwit's MAXXAM.