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

Dabob Bay B

Applied for by DNR Natural Areas Program · Jefferson County · 1,499 acres

What the application says

“Managed as part of the Dabob Bay Natural Area... includes all of the known element occurrences of the largest remaining example in the world of a globally imperiled rare type of rhododendron forest.”

Verbatim from the application (application Parts D/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. 2026-05-21Presented 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.

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.