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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 Mason County, Washington

YEAR OWNERSHIP
  Private & Tribal State Forest Service BLM & Other Public TOTAL
2002 112,415 20,163 2,622 0 135,200
2003 131,178 20,916 1,677 0 153,771
2004 117,611 36,511 691 0 154,813
2005 126,436 25,577 1,956 0 153,969
2006 131,257 14,548 368 0 146,173
2007 128,115 18,361 919 0 147,395
2008 89,837 26,007 406 0 116,250
2009 111,903 29,711 814 0 142,428
2010 82,014 22,126 380 0 104,520
2011 92,611 16,119 1,965 65 110,760
2012 87,509 22,595 1,449 1,765 113,318
2013 83,264 21,755 420 622 106,061
2014 96,295 9,931 551 5,845 112,622
2015 72,113 23,215 446 781 96,555
2016 45,426 12,581 436 87 58,530
2017 73,390 13,323 458 0 87,171
2018 76,965 20,179 694 0 97,838
2019 72,371 29,791 4,506 0 106,668
2020 62,072 13,920 2,041 0 78,033
2021 62,293 16,635 6,793 302 86,023
2022 69,242 21,889 1,495 809 93,435
2023 64,628 9,426 55 1,151 75,260




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