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 Columbia County, Washington

YEAR OWNERSHIP
  Private & Tribal State Forest Service BLM & Other Public TOTAL
2002 1,788 0 76 0 1,864
2003 9,970 0 7 0 9,977
2004 5,551 0 902 0 6,453
2005 6,828 0 1,102 0 7,930
2006 25,803 0 207 0 26,010
2007 42,481 99 9,422 0 52,002
2008 3,315 0 3,234 0 6,549
2009 153 0 635 0 788
2010 0 0 5,251 0 5,251
2011 312 0 2,460 0 2,772
2012 262 0 348 0 610
2013 78 0 0 0 78
2014 780 0 0 0 780
2015 819 0 0 0 819
2016 581 0 0 0 581
2017 1,192 0 0 0 1,192
2018 1,926 0 0 0 1,926
2019 946 0 2,274 0 3,220
2020 18 0 0 0 18
2021 65 0 0 0 65
2022 1,708 0 0 0 1,708
2023 1,892 0 67 0 1,959




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