Trust Land Transfer application · 2027–29 · filed, not granted
Sequim Bay
Applied for by Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe · Clallam County · 198 acres
Acreage note: amended down from 435 after DNR found the western half not in trust beneficiaries' best interest
What the application says
“The Tribe will manage the parcel as open space nature preserve. Recreational access will be maintained... the Tribe may elect to develop forest management plans under which ecological forest methods including selective forest thinning might be applied.”
Verbatim from the application (application Part D), DNR's public application repository.
Status
- 2025-09-302027-29 application cycle closed (40 applications received; 30 advanced)
- 2026-04-15Public comment period on advanced applications closed
- 2026-06-04Presented to the Trust Land Transfer Advisory Committee (Advisory Committee Meeting 3)
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
- Sequim Gazette + Peninsula Daily News, Apr-May 2026: contested locally; Sequim council delayed, then voted to send a support letter; ccwatchdog.com critical piece on the 435→198 amendment
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 (T29 R3W, parcel 032911340000). Corrections with documentation: records@saveourbacon.news.