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 Garfield County, Washington

YEAR OWNERSHIP
  Private & Tribal State Forest Service BLM & Other Public TOTAL
2002 453 0 2,044 0 2,497
2003 0 0 5,049 0 5,049
2004 150 0 2,448 0 2,598
2005 1,231 0 901 0 2,132
2006 5,628 0 3,486 0 9,114
2007 156 0 12,616 0 12,772
2008 472 0 4,702 0 5,174
2009 0 0 9,071 0 9,071
2010 0 0 5,155 0 5,155
2011 349 0 5,373 0 5,722
2012 0 0 1,784 0 1,784
2013 0 0 2,269 0 2,269
2014 0 0 2,882 0 2,882
2015 1,129 0 1,330 0 2,459
2016 527 0 1,682 0 2,209
2017 2,026 2,352 349 0 4,727
2018 876 474 70 0 1,420
2019 0 0 1,022 0 1,022
2020 0 4,045 759 0 4,804
2021 545 0 2,699 0 3,244
2022 415 553 1,228 0 2,196
2023 535 1,020 3,375 0 4,930




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