Dabob Bay land swap public hearing Thursday

QUILCENE — A state Department of Natural Resources public hearing on a plan to transfer state trust lands to the Dabob Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area is set Thursday.

The hearing on the proposed Dabob Bay Phase 2 Inter-trust Exchange will be from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. 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 Natural Resources Conservation Area as authorized by the state Legislature, DNR said.

In the exchange

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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.

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.

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