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 Klickitat County, Washington

YEAR OWNERSHIP
  Private & Tribal State Forest Service BLM & Other Public TOTAL
2002 82,956 5,031 0 0 87,987
2003 79,556 15,310 0 0 94,866
2004 105,882 4,500 0 0 110,382
2005 92,334 7,063 0 0 99,397
2006 74,928 17,978 0 0 92,906
2007 74,661 11,843 0 0 86,504
2008 56,699 5,095 60 0 61,854
2009 44,409 20,791 0 0 65,200
2010 77,471 3,788 823 0 82,082
2011 87,046 7,522 0 0 94,568
2012 99,846 4,434 29 17 104,326
2013 152,014 2,449 2,273 0 156,736
2014 74,543 2,354 951 718 78,566
2015 77,806 688 472 95 79,061
2016 80,722 0 1,565 340 82,627
2017 77,857 423 2,417 0 80,696
2018 74,928 640 3,659 0 79,227
2019 54,796 309 1,080 0 56,185
2020 70,628 544 708 0 71,880
2021 74,010 24,977 99 0 99,086
2022 72,716 0 4,148 0 76,864
2023 58,101 6,112 1,508 0 65,721




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