Trust Land Transfer application · 2027–29 · filed, not granted

Big Beef Creek

Applied for by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife · Kitsap County · 450 acres

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What the application says

“This transfer will complement and expand upon nearby and adjacent WDFW properties... create a continuous stretch of protected land and increase access. [Serves Seabeck, poverty rate 10.1% per application.]”

Verbatim from the application (application Part E), DNR's public application repository.

Status

  1. 2025-09-302027-29 application cycle closed (40 applications received; 30 advanced)
  2. 2026-04-15Public comment period on advanced applications closed
  3. 2026-06-04Presented to the Trust Land Transfer Advisory Committee (Advisory Committee Meeting 3)

An application is not a transfer: the advisory committee scores parcels, the Board of Natural Resources approves a ranked list, and any transfer requires an appropriation in the state capital budget.

Documents

The application file in DNR's public repository →
DNR's Best Interests analyses and committee-meeting recordings live in the same repository; our archived copies land here as the records pipeline ingests them.

Parcel/applicant as listed by DNR — Proposed and Current Transfers (retrieved 2026-08-11). County: application Part B (T25N/T24N R1W). Corrections with documentation: records@saveourbacon.news.