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 Snohomish County, Washington

YEAR OWNERSHIP
  Private & Tribal State Forest Service BLM & Other Public TOTAL
2002 50,747 40,140 112 0 90,999
2003 53,193 48,238 66 0 101,497
2004 76,055 59,793 742 0 136,590
2005 47,395 59,180 1,595 0 108,170
2006 50,087 30,808 497 0 81,392
2007 56,870 43,999 1,734 0 102,603
2008 6,293 25,433 9,982 0 41,708
2009 22,380 55,596 3,995 0 81,971
2010 53,872 65,487 7,973 0 127,332
2011 68,162 65,927 3,952 1,525 139,566
2012 53,622 33,202 3,409 643 90,876
2013 62,449 68,320 6,567 991 138,328
2014 74,938 37,263 10,862 3,092 126,155
2015 63,630 34,586 4,107 3,010 105,333
2016 42,521 44,816 1,721 380 89,437
2017 52,555 57,957 294 951 111,758
2018 59,211 49,466 251 795 109,723
2019 37,719 40,593 122 666 79,100
2020 47,675 47,403 77 778 95,932
2021 41,886 50,906 574 0 93,366
2022 44,653 27,057 5,213 0 76,923
2023 37,192 19,901 6,127 0 63,220




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