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 Skamania County, Washington

YEAR OWNERSHIP
  Private & Tribal State Forest Service BLM & Other Public TOTAL
2002 30,994 828 607 0 32,429
2003 26,313 3,061 2,448 0 31,822
2004 42,124 262 8,250 0 50,636
2005 35,295 2,544 3,591 0 41,430
2006 26,171 1,472 4,904 0 32,547
2007 38,583 48 6,455 0 45,086
2008 23,239 166 6,968 0 30,373
2009 15,833 1,765 20,751 0 38,349
2010 42,214 8,056 11,089 0 61,359
2011 53,231 2,236 10,463 0 65,930
2012 66,528 5,930 3,735 0 76,193
2013 65,685 5,330 11,187 0 82,202
2014 49,412 9,310 22,630 0 81,352
2015 67,999 2,889 23,655 0 94,543
2016 66,125 2,030 13,750 1,217 83,122
2017 50,646 10,374 51 300 61,371
2018 53,193 19,132 94 243 72,662
2019 47,056 13,986 12,426 421 73,889
2020 51,543 10,666 19,460 321 81,990
2021 46,140 4,463 11,823 0 62,426
2022 41,520 10,300 8,718 0 60,538
2023 29,219 93,441 25,603 0 148,263




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