This map was developed by the Natural Resource Spatial Informatics Group to provide access to the 2019 Washington State Forestland Database. It displays the 2019 forestland parcels by owner class. Owner classes are determined by parcel owner names. Owner names are provided by counties and were normalized to unify ownerships across county boundaries.
The database was developed as part of a project funded by the Washington State Legislature, and is a continuation of work started by the former Rural Technology Initiative.
Summary statistics for the database are availble at the 2019 Forestland Database Summarizer
The parcels were developed for county and state level summaries and were not intended for site specific analysis and examination. There are artifacts of the processing remaining in the dataset that do not represent actual forestland parcels.
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