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 Ferry County, Washington

YEAR OWNERSHIP
  Private & Tribal State Forest Service BLM & Other Public TOTAL
2002 78,095 1,944 3,107 0 83,146
2003 12,231 5,544 3,306 0 21,081
2004 18,440 11,201 24,724 374 54,739
2005 15,487 3,296 7,288 0 26,071
2006 26,949 3,476 5,322 0 35,747
2007 27,830 8,889 11,029 0 47,748
2008 18,142 4,612 11,693 5 34,452
2009 7,678 8,462 14,668 149 30,957
2010 9,840 12,718 14,923 0 37,481
2011 16,178 9,026 7,091 461 32,755
2012 25,223 9,042 3 0 34,268
2013 40,770 5,048 15,372 266 61,456
2014 51,324 2,251 15,268 0 68,843
2015 50,168 4,019 9,013 0 63,200
2016 67,486 3,600 11,441 0 82,527
2017 54,871 0 12,851 0 67,722
2018 15,590 0 20,682 0 36,272
2019 19,774 0 25,567 0 45,341
2020 21,895 0 38,285 0 60,180
2021 21,267 7,032 25,308 0 53,606
2022 13,825 4,037 23,972 3,234 45,068
2023 22,985 0 15,150 0 38,135




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