About 1,300 acres of forestland in south-central Skagit County and northern Snohomish County will remain just that: forestland, thanks to yesterday’s approval by the Board of Natural Resources to purchase the land from Green Crow Corp. for $2.1 million. Most of the land in the purchase is ranked as suitable for timber production. The majority of the trees are less than 20 years old.
DNR’s purchase will assure that the land remains a working forest; that is, used to produce natural resources income, not home sites or other non-forest development.
The largest block of the purchase (see map) is immediately west of Lake Cavanaugh in southern Skagit County. Like previous large acquisitions by DNR in the past few years, this one is aimed at keeping forestland in production, helping maintain rural jobs and allowing the local watershed to continue to produce clean water.
The land that will be purchased is also adjacent to other state trust lands that DNR manages. Consolidating trust land holdings allows more efficiently management of the forestland. DNR manages several million acres of forestland that provides revenue to the Common School Trust (public school construction), State Forest Trust (county services), and other trusts that support public institutions and services.
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