The Emerald Triangle
The Emerald Triangle refers to the three counties of Mendocino, Humboldt, and Trinity in Northern California, United States.
This region is also called Behind the Redwood Curtain,because the two major highways that connect these three counties, U.S. Route 101 and State Route 299, are narrow, winding and lined with tall California Redwood trees. This cuts the Emerald Triangle off from the rest of California.
The three are the biggest marijuana producing counties in California and also the USA.A county-commissioned study reports marijuana accounts for up to two-thirds of the economy of Mendocino.
The three counties are known for their general libertarian politics and historical dependence on the timber industry. They were also associated with various ill-fated plans to secede from California and become, along with several counties in neighboring Oregon, a part of the proposed State of Jefferson
This region is also called Behind the Redwood Curtain,because the two major highways that connect these three counties, U.S. Route 101 and State Route 299, are narrow, winding and lined with tall California Redwood trees. This cuts the Emerald Triangle off from the rest of California.
The three are the biggest marijuana producing counties in California and also the USA.A county-commissioned study reports marijuana accounts for up to two-thirds of the economy of Mendocino.
The three counties are known for their general libertarian politics and historical dependence on the timber industry. They were also associated with various ill-fated plans to secede from California and become, along with several counties in neighboring Oregon, a part of the proposed State of Jefferson
Trinity County is a large, rugged and mountainous, heavily forested county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of California, along the Trinity River and within the Salmon/Klamath Mountains. It covers an area of over two million acres, and as of 2000 its population was 13,022. The county seat and largest town is Weaverville, with a population of approximately 3.500 people
Mendocino County is a county located on the north coast of the U.S. state of California, north of the greater San Francisco Bay Area and west of the Central Valley. As of 2000, the population was 86,265. The county seat is Ukiah.
Humboldt is a densely forested, mountainous, and rural county situated along the Pacific coast in Northern California's rugged Coast (Mountain) Ranges. With nearly 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km2) of combined public and private forest in production, Humboldt County accounts for twenty percent of the total forest production for all of California.The county contains over forty percent of all remaining old growth Coast Redwood forests, the vast majority of which is protected or strictly conserved within dozens of national, state, and local forests and parks, totaling approximately 680,000 acres (over 1,000 square miles).
