Forest Health Tracker

Welcome to Forest Health Tracker, an interactive online platform that aims to gather and display forest health project information across all lands in Washington to facilitate strategic cross-boundary planning, implementation, and monitoring of forests in the spirit of shared stewardship. More than 22 million acres of Washington - half of the state - is forested, effecting clean air and water, fish and wildlife habitat, and our quality of life. The 2020 Forest Action Plan sets out strategic goals and actions to address the most pressing threats to our state's forest ecosystems at a meaningful scale and integrates the 20-Year Forest Health Strategic Plan: Eastern Washington.

To inform management and assess the ongoing need for treatments to increase resilience in this dynamic landscape, DNR has completed forest health assessments for priority landscapes covering millions of acres in eastern Washington and is piloting assessments in western Washington.

Not all forest health project information can be displayed on this website, such as data associated with privacy restrictions. So in addition to this website, DNR maintains a comprehensive forest health treatment tracking database that is utilized for routine progress reporting on forest health strategic plan goals.

Treatment tracking is a helpful indicator in measuring progress to increase the pace and scale of treatments, but it is just one component of our state's comprehensive forest health monitoring framework.

Increasing forest health and resiliency across all-lands in Washington is a highly collaborative effort, requiring coordination amongst individuals and organizations across the state. The evolving data displayed in this website across local, state, federal, tribal, and private land ownership is a reflection of that collaboration and commitment.

Project Map

This map shows an overview of the approximate locations of projects. To zoom into a specific area and see more information, view the comprehensive map page.

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Featured Projects

(PALS)TILLICUM CREEK WATERSHED RESTORATION PROJECT

Tillicum Landscape Perspective - Annotated

Project Type	Integrated forest health project
Contributing Organizations	North Central Washington Forest Health Collaborative, Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Yakama Nation: Confederated Tribes and Bands
Stage	Implementation
Duration	? - ?

Activities include small tree thinning, pruning, handpiling, prescribed burning, shaded fuel break construction, closing roads, decommission roads, improve/upgrade roads on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest.

2024-NES-F022

Masticator implementing fuels reduction work during project implementation in 2024.

Project Type	Integrated forest health project
Contributing Organizations	Avista Utilities, City Of Spokane
Stage	Implementation
Duration	? - ?

This project is a Washington Department of Natural Resource Service Forestry Project done in coordination with local partners including Spokane City Fire, Avista Utilities, and the private landowner.

Rainwater Wildlife Area Hand Thinning and Slash Piling

Project Type	Non-commercial vegetation treatment
Contributing Organizations
Stage	Completed
Duration	2022

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) and the Washington Department of Natural Resources’ Forest Resilience Division developed an agreement to complete 28 acres of precommercial hand thinning and slash piling on the CTUIR-owned Rainwater Wildlife Area. The project’s primary objective was to improve forest health by increasing resilience to drought and insect and disease outbreak, as well as the potential for high severity wildfire. Given the value of the Rainwater property as wildlife habitat, a related objective was improving ungulate forage conditions.