Proponents of the Big Lagoon gaming Compact for Barstow use glamor photography taken from perspectives that hide any blemishes to sugget that the Big Lagoon is "pristine" and an "untouched natural resource."
These pictures begin to provide a more balanced picture of the world that surrounds the Big Lagoon. While the Lagoon is certainly worthy of conservation and preservation of some form or another; it's not what proponents of the Big Lagoon Compacts would have legislators and reporters believe.
These pictures begin to provide a more balanced picture of the world that surrounds the Big Lagoon. While the Lagoon is certainly worthy of conservation and preservation of some form or another; it's not what proponents of the Big Lagoon Compacts would have legislators and reporters believe.
The Big Lagoon Rancheria is 8.3 miles by car from the Cher-ae Heights Casino also in Trinidad sitting on cliffs overlooking Northern California's coastline. Residences, trailer parks and camping areas straddle Highway 1o1 in between the two Reservations.The Rancheria is adjacent to the Big Lagoon Subdivision on the southern edge of the Big Lagoon. The Subdivision is made up of 76 homes within the Big Lagoon Park Company (Big Lagoon Colony) and another 33 homes in the Big Lagoon Estates.
The majority of land not in public stewardship that surrounds the Big Lagoon/Big Lagoon Rancheria and most of Humboldt County's North Coast planning area is covered in active commercial timberlands. The Big Lagoon Sawmill, a commercial operation, was active upstream of the Big Lagoon for the better part of the 20th Century. The Hammond Log Pond is buffered from the Big Lagoon by marshlands and is still owned by Green Diamond/Simpson Timber Company. Evidence of active logging surrounds the pond.
The 20-acre Big Lagoon Rancheria (reservation trust land) is comprised of two parcels: the original 9-acre site where the tribe's members have erected homes (top of this photo) and the 11-acre site (the foreground of this photo) where the tribe had begun construction of a casino in the 1990s. Commercial development would be prohibited on these two parcels under terms of the current compact under consideration but not on another 20 acres or more that the tribe owns but which is not yet held in trust and lies between these current trust lands and the Big Lagoon Subdivision.
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