The Washington Department of Natural Resources acquired 54 acres of forestland in Southwest Washington following the agency’s board approval in early September.
A portion of timber sales from the land will go into the state’s Common School Trust, a pool of funding dedicated to K-12 education.
DNR purchased a 40-acre parcel 20 miles east of Woodland in Cowlitz County for $230,000. The agency also received 14 acres of donated land along Buncombe Hollow Road south of Lake Merwin in Clark County. Both parcels are adjacent to or surrounded by DNR-managed land.
The transfers were two of four transactions spanning 256 acres of Western Washington forestland, the largest being in Pacific and Clallam counties.
