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 Yakima County, Washington

YEAR OWNERSHIP
  Private & Tribal State Forest Service BLM & Other Public TOTAL
2002 164,754 13,542 8,396 0 186,692
2003 14,625 5,007 10,934 0 30,566
2004 13,554 15,328 9,117 0 37,999
2005 21,290 18,557 14,171 0 54,018
2006 21,896 11,434 8,587 0 41,917
2007 85,799 14,129 10,088 0 110,016
2008 5,616 33,401 10,116 0 49,133
2009 5,540 5,638 9,393 0 20,571
2010 9,335 606 11,123 0 21,064
2011 1,882 8,157 8,151 0 18,190
2012 1,905 9,068 4,861 0 15,834
2013 42,478 854 7,583 0 50,915
2014 63,318 2,596 8,438 0 74,352
2015 61,417 950 9,203 0 71,570
2016 91,907 2,711 6,239 0 100,857
2017 62,852 685 10,498 0 74,035
2018 1,350 1,237 18,959 0 21,546
2019 2,551 27,550 8,725 0 38,826
2020 0 1,716 11,015 0 12,731
2021 1,144 0 8,259 0 9,403
2022 236 0 4,422 0 4,658
2023 1,467 0 4,390 0 5,857




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