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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 Kitsap County, Washington

YEAR OWNERSHIP
  Private & Tribal State Forest Service BLM & Other Public TOTAL
2002 12,695 381 0 0 13,076
2003 22,798 4,068 0 0 26,866
2004 21,902 6,745 0 0 28,647
2005 37,406 2,407 0 0 39,813
2006 20,773 1,205 0 0 21,978
2007 18,528 1,184 0 0 19,712
2008 17,627 3,810 0 0 21,437
2009 9,368 5,583 0 0 14,951
2010 16,660 5,286 0 0 21,946
2011 17,345 1 0 3,266 20,612
2012 18,148 5,016 0 2,946 26,110
2013 27,708 2,752 0 2,946 33,406
2014 18,074 3,650 0 2,465 24,189
2015 17,041 2,111 0 2,300 21,452
2016 21,913 3,629 0 1,838 27,380
2017 19,111 4,164 0 1,562 24,837
2018 30,156 3,196 0 895 34,247
2019 17,753 5,034 0 2,158 24,945
2020 25,049 3,452 0 1,480 29,981
2021 15,596 4,396 0 2,698 22,690
2022 13,884 0 0 7,209 21,093
2023 5,203 0 0 10,259 15,462




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