Welcome to the Land Management Division. The state trust landscape varies from coastal rainforests and inland forests in the Puget lowlands, to the rolling pines of the eastern Cascade foothills, and on to the rich and rolling wheat lands of the inland empire.
Our division provides direction and planning, mostly for DNR’s forested trust land activities. It guides growing healthy forest stands, implementing and monitoring of commitments in the trust lands Habitat Conservation Plan, and tracking management activities on DNR-managed lands.
We work closely to create sustainable natural resource landscapes with DNR’s other divisions that oversee timber sales, agriculture and various commercial leases, land transactions, roads and facilities, and conservation of our state’s natural heritage. We provide planning, GIS, and scientific support that helps region field operations on trust lands across Washington. Our reforestation program includes a tree nursery that supplies many species of seedlings to replant state trust lands and supply private forestlands.