Miller Bay

What the application says

“Kitsap County will manage this parcel as open space... A conservation easement may be held on the parcel by GPC [Great Peninsula Conservancy]... total contiguous area protected will be 56 acres of forest and 1,575 LF of Miller Bay shoreline.”

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. 2026-05-27Presented 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.

Coverage

• Kitsap Environmental Coalition: parcel on NE Gunderson Rd, last clear-cut 1976, 'currently slated for timber auction and potential logging in 2029'

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.