HARVEST AND INDUSTRY

Washington Harvest by County

Timber harvest data by ownership for 2002 to most recent available year. The data currently available has been gathered from multiple agencies which use different data collection methods. Reference sources and the methods are described below.



Timber Harvest for Clark County, Washington

YEAR OWNERSHIP
  Private & Tribal State Forest Service BLM & Other Public TOTAL
2002 34,698 17,710 0 0 52,408
2003 41,102 13,498 0 0 54,600
2004 54,326 33,144 0 0 87,470
2005 53,888 18,922 0 0 72,810
2006 54,388 16,750 0 0 71,138
2007 26,081 26,466 0 0 52,547
2008 23,778 11,573 0 0 35,351
2009 12,470 32,085 0 0 44,555
2010 20,949 76,057 0 0 97,006
2011 24,982 33,606 0 24 58,612
2012 26,140 41,319 0 1,075 68,534
2013 35,040 18,212 0 7 53,259
2014 86,674 21,615 0 1,674 109,963
2015 45,714 19,105 0 0 64,819
2016 43,218 33,272 0 1,922 78,412
2017 38,665 32,564 0 1,649 72,878
2018 48,139 20,239 0 1,822 70,200
2019 31,397 15,620 270 1,953 49,240
2020 33,482 18,462 0 2,308 54,252
2021 48,800 9,196 0 0 57,996
2022 36,558 7,273 0 0 43,831
2023 22,626 32,645 0 0 55,271




All volumes reported in thousand board feet (MBF) Scribner. Ownerships considered private include industrial private (Industrial) and nonindustrial private forests (N.I.P.F). Ownerships considered public include Washington Department of Natural Resources (State), United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service (Forest Service), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and county and municipal (Other Public). Harvest data for Tribal forestlands are not available.



All timber harvest data for private lands and state lands ore obtained from the Washington State Department of Revenue. These data provide volumes using timber receipts for all harvested trees. and and are available at URL: http://dor.wa.gov/taxes-rates/other-taxes/forest-tax/harvest-statistics



For timber harvest on the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) timberlands, data is collected from the BLM Timber Harvest Information System and include: commercial harvests, fuel wood, special forest products (timber harvests that are too small to be viewed as commercial), and stewardship contracting. BLM data can be found at: https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/forests-and-woodlands/timber-sales/bureau-wide-timber-data.



This project was made possible, in part, by funding from the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) supported by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grant no. 2011-68005-30416 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.



Data for 2022 were updated 9/11/2024