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

Duckabush River Valley

Filed as “Duckabush 39” — DNR's page uses a different label.

Applied for by Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe · Jefferson County

Acreage note: field blank; parcel name and a mis-filled field suggest ~38-39 ac — unconfirmed

What the application says

“Managed for research, education and traditional cultural practices... The riparian forest will be managed for long term health and as a source of large woody debris... The upland forest will be managed for the production of future old-growth.”

Verbatim from the application (application Part D), 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. 2026-05-27Presented to the Trust Land Transfer Advisory Committee (Advisory Committee Meeting 2)

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 R02W). Corrections with documentation: records@saveourbacon.news.