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

Carey Creek

Applied for by King County · King County · 75 acres

Acreage note: field blank; application text: 'over 75 acres'

What the application says

“Transfer will protect water quality and habitat in Carey Creek, Issaquah Creek, and associated wetlands — part of a Tier 1 priority area for Chinook salmon recovery in the WRIA 8 watershed... expand public recreational access through partnerships with IATC, MTSGT, and others.”

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

Status

  1. 2025-09-302027-29 application cycle closed (40 applications received; 30 advanced)
  2. 2026-04-15Public comment period on advanced applications closed
  3. 2026-06-10Presented to the Trust Land Transfer Advisory Committee (Advisory Committee Meeting 4)

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.

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 (T23N R6E S36). Corrections with documentation: records@saveourbacon.news.