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

Running Springs Ranch

Filed as “Running Horse DNR” — DNR's page uses a different label.

Applied for by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife · Chelan County

Acreage note: field blank; WDFW slide for same-named Chelan property says 1,286.88 ac — unconfirmed against this application

What the application says

“A transfer would not impact access in either a positive or negative way... The management of the parcel would not change... this parcel provides good habitat for wildlife as well as providing land for recreation. There are good hunting prospects here. Access to this parcel is difficult but possible, there are no public easements to the parcels.”

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. 2026-06-04Presented to the Trust Land Transfer Advisory Committee (Advisory Committee Meeting 3)

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 (24N 19EWM) — DNR page name 'Running Springs Ranch' appears to be an error. Corrections with documentation: records@saveourbacon.news.