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

Dabob Bay A

Applied for by DNR Natural Areas Program · Jefferson County · 862 acres

Acreage note: ~862 total (Tarboo North ~607; Sec 10 155; Sec 15+22 100)

What the application says

“The receiving agency will manage these parcels as part of the Dabob Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area, protecting conservation values, including natural heritage features...”

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

Status

2025-09-302027-29 application cycle closed (40 applications received; 30 advanced)
2026-04-15Public comment period on advanced applications closed
2026-05-21Presented to the Trust Land Transfer Advisory Committee (Advisory Committee Meeting 1)

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.

Coverage

Peninsula Daily News 2024-10-05: Dabob Bay conservation area expands (context, prior action)

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. Corrections with documentation: records@saveourbacon.news.