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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 Thurston County, Washington

YEAR OWNERSHIP
  Private & Tribal State Forest Service BLM & Other Public TOTAL
2002 68,338 26,215 0 0 94,553
2003 70,555 47,838 0 0 118,393
2004 90,047 53,285 0 0 143,332
2005 79,101 44,104 0 0 123,205
2006 70,067 23,417 0 0 93,484
2007 67,646 23,417 0 0 91,063
2008 66,676 10,643 0 0 77,319
2009 60,689 28,250 0 0 88,939
2010 45,624 63,500 0 0 109,124
2011 58,843 29,156 0 491 88,490
2012 52,693 14,373 4,479 119 71,664
2013 148,335 20,606 0 21 168,962
2014 62,619 9,852 0 579 73,050
2015 61,288 23,554 0 0 84,842
2016 51,987 39,845 0 0 91,832
2017 58,589 16,080 0 38 74,707
2018 66,660 33,110 0 63 99,833
2019 38,514 27,404 9,258 71 75,247
2020 42,977 30,603 0 79 73,659
2021 48,952 39,558 0 0 88,510
2022 49,216 34,458 0 0 83,674
2023 36,562 31,356 0 0 67,918




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