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
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
