QUILCENE — The state Department of Natural Resources plans a public hearing on a plan to transfer state trust lands to the Dabob Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area.
The hearing on the proposed Dabob Bay Phase 2 Inter-trust Exchange will be from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 12, in the Quilcene School multipurpose room, 294715 U.S. Highway 101.
The deadline for public comment is 4 p.m. Thursday, May 19.
The exchange would make possible a future transfer of additional state trust land to the Dabob Bay Dabob Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area as authorized by the state Legislature, DNR said.
In the exchange, several properties now designated as State Forest Transfer and State Forest Purchase trust lands in Jefferson County would be redesignated as Common School Trust properties.
In exchange, equal-valued parcels of Common School Trust lands in Jefferson County would be designated as State Forest Transfer Trust and State Forest Purchase Trust lands.
DNR manages State Forest Trust lands to support county services, including schools and fire protection and manages Common School Trust lands to support school construction.
A fact sheet with maps showing the affected parcels in the Dabob Bay Phase 2 Inter-trust Exchange is online at http://tinyurl.com/3lbrdey.
Written comments can be sent to Department of Natural Resources Asset & Property Management Division, Attn: Trust Land Transfer Inter-trust Exchange: 86-086801 MS 47014, Olympia, WA 98504-7014.
Comments about the proposed inter-trust exchange also can be emailed to Trust_Land_Transfer@dnr.wa.gov.
