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

Park Lake C

Applied for by Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation · 4,315 acres

View the parcel boundary on the map →

Roughly 6,650 feet of each barrel of the Bacon Siphon & Tunnel — the sole conveyance carrying Columbia Basin Project water south from Banks Lake — runs beneath this parcel (geometry analysis of the applicant's shapefile against the mapped tunnel alignment; pending confirmation against Reclamation as-builts).

Applicant statements

As of our last check, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation have published no public statement about this application on their website or in the Tribal Tribune — the signed application itself is the only first-party record. Media characterizations of the Tribes' intentions are attributed to those outlets, not to the Tribes.

Status

  1. 2025-09-25Application filed by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
  2. 2025-12-18DNR Best Interests of the Trust analysis completed
  3. 2026-01-15DNR management review concurrence
  4. 2026-04-15Public comment period closed
  5. 2026-05-27Presented to the Trust Land Transfer 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). Corrections with documentation: records@saveourbacon.news.