Name

Deer Park

Priority Landscape Category

20-Year Forest Health Strategic Plan: Eastern WA Priority Landscapes

Description

181,171 acres, of which 90,497 are forested.  Ownership is primarily private non-industrial (90%), with the remainder split between industrial forestland, municipal, DNR, and WA Department of Fish and Wildlife.  Unforested portions of this landscape are mostly agricultural land with some subdivisions in the south.

Fire risk is highest in the extensive areas of wildland-urban interface. Fuel loads are high in the forested blocks in the north and along the eastern and western boundaries. Burn probability is low, however, resulting in moderate risk.  Areas that currently support dry forest are projected to become hotter and drier but still be able to support forest in most places, while moist forest sites are projected to be very rare.

Mechanical and prescribed fire treatments are recommended on 36,000 - 49,000 of forested acres to reduce fire risk to homes, other structures, infrastructure, and forests.  High priority areas for potential treatments that maximize forest health and wildfire response benefit occur throughout the planning area and are concentrated near the western and northern boundaries.

As of October 31, 2023, since 2017 in this priority landscape:

• Individuals and organizations have reported 4,533 acres of forest health treatments completed impacting 2,981 footprint acres.
• 1,530 acres have experienced low or mixed severity, while 28,859 acres of Forest Practice Applications have been approved for some kind of active management.

Read the latest summary memo of eastern Washington treatment data reported to Washington DNR, and read the full landscape evaluation summary conducted in 2018 by clicking here or downloading the PDF available below.  Data layers associated with the landscape evaluation are available at https://bit.ly/ForestHealthData.  Information on specific projects conducted within or overlapping this priority landscape that have been uploaded into Forest Health Tracker are below.

 

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