Trust Land Transfer application · 2027–29 · filed, not granted

Badger County North

Filed as “Badger Canyon North Hillside Property” — DNR's page uses a different label.

Applied for by Benton County · Benton County · 269.37 acres

What the application says

“Benton County will manage this area as open space, similar to how it manages Badger and Candy Mountain preserves... preserving high quality shrub-steppe habitat and ridgetops while allowing managed/directed public access on established trails.”

Verbatim from the application (application Part D), DNR's public application repository.

Status

2025-09-302027-29 application cycle closed (40 applications received; 30 advanced)
2026-04-15Public comment period on advanced applications closed
2026-05-21Presented to the Trust Land Transfer Advisory Committee (Advisory Committee Meeting 1)

An application is not a transfer: the advisory committee scores parcels, the Board of Natural Resources approves a ranked list, and any transfer requires an appropriation in the state capital budget.

Coverage

Tri-City Herald 2025-09-02: WA land transfer could turn Tri-Cities hillside into new mountain bike trails

Documents

The application file in DNR's public repository →
DNR's Best Interests analyses and committee-meeting recordings live in the same repository; our archived copies land here as the records pipeline ingests them.

Parcel/applicant as listed by DNR — Proposed and Current Transfers (retrieved 2026-08-11). County: application Part B (T08N R28E). Corrections with documentation: records@saveourbacon.news.