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

South Makah

Applied for by Makah Tribe · Clallam County

Acreage note: acreage field left blank in application; not published elsewhere

What the application says

“The parcel would be managed with either a wilderness or cultural designation that precludes timber harvest and development... to benefit species that utilize late successional forest, particularly the marbled murrelet and fisher... and continue to provide the Tribe with opportunities for cultural gathering.”

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. 2026-05-21Presented 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 (32N/15W Lot 4). Corrections with documentation: records@saveourbacon.news.