Business & Permits
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Business & Permits

Forest Practices Applications and Rules are here, along with Adaptive Management and Small Forest Landowner programs. Leasing & Land Transactions covers leasing of state lands, and trust land exchanges, transfers, and sales. See DNR’s revenues for School Funding & Trust Beneficiaries. Maps, data, marine business, county income reports, and Government information are also here. Landowners, Industry & Contractors has mining and energy resource regulations, aquatic resources, conservation transactions, public works and forestry contracts, and Webster Forest Nursery. Timber Sales auctions, sustainable harvests implementation information, operations, and new business are here.

 

 Publications

Maps

em_dabob_bay_exchange_properties.pdf   Map of Potential Dabob Bay Exchange Properties  (105.3 KB  PDF)
Map of Dabob (Tarboo) Bay Potential Intergrant Exchange Properties.

fp_wsa_status_map.pdf   Forest Practices Watershed Analyses Status Map - March 2009  (440.2 KB  PDF)
Washington State Map of Watershed Administrative Units and Their Watershed Analysis Status as of March 2009

eng_rms_mpl_7_med.pdf   Major Public Lands Map (medium resolution)  (3.06 MB  PDF)
Medium resolution version of our Major Public Lands map. Map displays our trust lands, other public lands, highways, water features, recreation sites, towns, terrain, and much more.

psl_og_map_may07.pdf   Map of Washington State-owned Mineral Lands  (1.56 MB  PDF)
Map showing available state-owned lands for oil and gas lease auction dated May 2007.

Forms

psl_ls_mineral_prospecting_lease.pdf   Application For a Mineral Prospecting Lease  (38.7 KB  PDF)
For upland mineral prospecting lease only. Not for use on state-owned aquatic lands.

psl_ls_conv_mineral_to_mining_contract.pdf   Application For Conversion of a Mineral Prospecting Lease to a Mining Contract  (58.8 KB  PDF)
Holders of a mineral prospecting lease wishing to apply for conversion to a mining contract must use this application.

psl_ls_conv_coal_to_mining_contract.pdf   Application to Convert Coal Option Contract to a Mining Contract  (57.8 KB  PDF)
For a conversion of a coal option contract on state uplands to a mining contract.

psl_ls_coal_option_contract.pdf   Application For A Coal Option Contract on State Uplands  (55.8 KB  PDF)
Application for coal option contract.

aqr_use_auth_app.doc   Application for Authorization to Use State-Owned Aquatic Lands  (355.5 KB  DOC)
To apply for use of state-owned aquatic lands, including easements, rights-of-way and rights of entry.

Regulations

fp_rules_history.pdf   Forest Practices Rule Making History  (53.0 KB  PDF)
Forest Practices Legislation and Rule Making History. 1976-Present (Updated December 2008)

fp_rules_76.09.pdf   Forest Practices Act - Chapter 76.09 RCW   (170.4 KB  PDF)
In 1974 the Washington state legislature wrote the Forest Practices Act, Chapter 76.09 RCW. The Act defines a plan to protect public resources while assuring that Washington continues to be a productive timber growing area.

fp_rules_76.13.pdf   Small Forest Landowner Statute  (33.9 KB  PDF)
Small Forest Landowner Statute - Chapter 76.13 RCW - Stewardship of non-industrial forests and woodlands

fp_rules_forestsandfish.pdf   Forests and Fish Report  (983.6 KB  PDF)
The Forests and Fish Report is the result of a multi-stakeholder effort to improve forest practices and the protection of aquatic and riparian habitat on forestlands regulated under the state’s Forest Practices Act and rules.

eng_plso_map_filing_fee_wac332_150.pdf   WAC 332-150 Surveys, Plats and Maps Filing and Recording Fees  (3.2 KB  PDF)
This is the law which enables the collection of the recording fee for survey maps filed at counties in the State of Washington.