[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Former Centerville Naval Facility, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lifelong Ties to the Land Remain Strong at Former Navy Base Site

Leisyka Parrott
BLM California News.bytes #607
January 16, 2014

While US Navy specialists at the Centerville Naval Facility were busy  
tracking submarines during the 1960s, Yvette Green was playing with  
friends on the grassy expanses of the Navy base near her Ferndale,  
Calif. home.

Today, the base is a memory. The 40-acre facility was decommissioned  
two decades ago, the buildings were razed, and the land was recently  
returned to public open space managed by the Bureau of Land  
Management’s Arcata Field Office.

Yvette Green, however, remains. She grazes cattle on a BLM grazing  
allotment on the pastures that were once part of the Navy station.  
Livestock grazing is part of a multiple use management approach on a  
460-acre collection of public lands known as the Lost Coast Headlands.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsbytes/2014/607-Extra_Navy.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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