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

Maratta Creek

Applied for by Cascade Forest Conservancy; receiving agency Cowlitz Indian Tribe · Cowlitz County · 480 acres

What the application says

“The parcel will be managed as open space to protect its unique ecological and cultural values... allows for cultural and traditional uses by the Cowlitz Tribal community. Specific habitat enhancement or management activities may be undertaken to benefit First Foods (e.g., deer, elk, berries, roots)...”

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. 2026-05-21Presented 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.