RCW 79.15.500 Contract harvesting—Definitions. The definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 79.15.500 through 79.15.530 and 79.15.540 unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of public lands. (2) “Contract harvesting” means a timber operation occurring on state forestlands, in which the department contracts with a firm or individual to perform all […]
RCW 79.15.510 Contract harvesting—Program established. (1) The department may establish a contract harvesting program for directly contracting for the removal of timber and other valuable materials from state lands and for conducting silvicultural treatments consistent with RCW 79.15.540. (2) The contract requirements must be compatible with the office of financial management’s guide to public service […]
RCW 79.15.520 Contract harvesting revolving account. (1) The contract harvesting revolving account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts from the gross proceeds of the sale of logs from a contract harvesting sale must be deposited into the account. Expenditures from the account may be used only for the payment of […]
RCW 79.15.530 Contract harvesting—Special appraisal practices. The board of natural resources must determine whether any special appraisal practices are necessary for logs sold by the contract harvesting processes, and if so, must adopt the special appraisal practices or procedures. In its consideration of special appraisal practices, the board of natural resources must consider and adopt […]
RCW 79.15.540 Intent—Contract harvesting—State trust forestland with identified forest health deficiencies. (1) The legislature intends to ensure, to the extent feasible given all applicable trust responsibilities, that trust beneficiaries receive long-term income from timberlands through improved forest conditions and by reducing the threat of forest fire to state trust forestlands. (2) In order to implement […]
