It was back in the 1920s and 1930s mainly that many counties in Washington State (especially on the Westside) found themselves unwilling owners of hundreds of thousands of acres of forfeited forestland abandoned by ‘cut-and-run’ logging outfits.
The heavily logged lands grew into weedy, brushy fire hazards and were, in general, both a headache and expense to the cash-strapped counties. The State legislature worked out a way for DNR’s predecessor agencies to care for those lands while sending the lion’s share of any income from the holdings back to the counties.
Clallam County has asked for a small parcel, near Sadie Creek, to be returned to it. State law allows any county with State Forest Trust lands managed by DNR to ask for lands to be returned (‘reconveyed’) to it for a public park use.
DNR will hold an informational meeting about Clallam County’s Sadie Creek reconveyance proposal on September 23 in Port Angeles.
Clallam County has requested that DNR transfer to County ownership a 320-acre parcel about 7 miles west of Joyce.
Last year, Clallam County received more than $8.3 million dollars in revenue from all of the thousands of acres of “State Forest Lands” (formerly Forest Board Lands) DNR manages there.
Find a map of the proposed reconveyance parcel and a brief explanation of the reconveyance process online.
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