All counties of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area administer land use policies set forth by the Gorge Commission, with the exception of Klickitat County. (The Commission implements these policies for Klickitat County.) The Commission reviews county-approved plans for development to ensure consistency with the National Scenic Area Act (NSA) and Management Plan. Citizens may appeal county land-use decisions to the Commission, which acts as a quasi-judicial body by reviewing the facts of the case and rendering a final decision. The Vital Signs Indicators Project (VSI) measures and tracks the conditions of the scenic, natural, economic, cultural, and recreational resources in the NSA. Monitoring guides adaptive management and provides empirical information to inform management plan review and implementation. The Commission also reviews federal monies dispensed by Oregon and Washington investment boards in the form of economic development loans and grants.

The Heating Oil Pollution Liability Insurance Program provides pollution liability coverage and technical assistance to owners of registered heating oil tanks. There is no direct cost to owners for the pollution liability insurance. The program is funded by fees paid by heating oil dealers, as well as special taxes on petroleum products. (Pollution Liability Insurance Program Trust Account-State, Heating Oil Pollution Liability Trust Account-Nonappropriated)

The Commercial Underground Storage Tank Reinsurance Program makes pollution liability insurance available and affordable to the owners and operators of regulated petroleum underground storage tanks by serving as the reinsurer of private-sector insurance policies. Availability of reinsurance allows tank owners and operators to comply with the financial responsibility regulations of the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Washington State Department of Ecology. This program is funded entirely by special taxes on petroleum products. (Pollution Liability Insurance Program Trust Account-State)

Provides oversight and management to all operational aspects of the agency. Ensures adherence to all state and federal laws that pertain to the siting and regulation of projects under EFSEC jurisdiction.

A preliminary review process that evaluates draft application materials for prospective energy and clean energy product manufacturing facility proposals. EFSEC provides preliminary comments to assist potential pre-applicants and may share preliminary input from potentially impacted stakeholders, agencies and tribes.

The formal process in which applicants submit applications for site certification for energy and clean energy product manufacturing facilities under EFSEC's jurisdiction.

Ensures compliance with the terms and conditions of the Site Certification Agreement (SCA). Takes appropriate corrective action for non compliance issues. Reviews and renews permits as needed.

The State Conservation Commission (SCC) members and staff provide the organizational framework for dispensing technical expertise and conservation program delivery to 47 conservation districts. These districts provide critical connections for conservation program delivery to local land owners. They provide technical and educational assistance and incentives to land owners that are willing to implement conservation measures to improve, enhance, and/or protect soil, water, air, plants, and animal resources. Districts identify critical natural resource issues and goals through the development of five-year plans, annual plans, and budget requests for conservation program implementation.

SCC staff provide guidance and oversight to the conservation districts, assuring compliance with state and federal requirements, compliance with open public meeting regulations, annual and long range planning, annual reporting of accomplishments, district operations reviews, assistance with internal audits, and oversight of elections and appointment processes. The emphasis is on quality of leadership, public service, and conservation program delivery that addresses natural resource issues across the state.

SCC members oversee state funding for the conservation districts and provide guidance and policy direction to the Executive Director for Commission staff to implement. Members examine issues pertaining to the rights and needs of the conservation district community and make recommendations to the Governor, Legislature, and state agencies for changes in programs and laws. This activity supports agency functions by providing leadership, cross-program support, and staff presence throughout the state. Operations and Administration manages the agency's long-term financial health and provides the information to support sound decision-making and resource management. It also provides human resource services, facility and vehicle management, maintains the agency's centralized records and library resources, responds to public records requests, and certifies conservation district elections and appointment processes.

Implement the Voluntary Stewardship Program (RCW 36.70A.700-790) in 28 counties. Agency responsibilities include: Manage contracts with each of the 28 counties; provide technical assistance to county staff in the implementation of the program; manage statutorily established State Technical Panel and Statewide Advisory Group; review, processes, and where appropriate approve each of the 28 county VSP work plans; provide reports to the legislature and governor as required; develop and identify fiscal needs for program implementation in future biennia; implement other elements of the VSP statute.

Perpetuating and managing wildlife, fish and shellfish into the future requires healthy aquatic habitat. Washington’s imperiled salmon and orca populations need healthy habitat to ensure ecosystem support throughout their life. The key reasons the state has seen a decline in wild salmon populations and subsequent orca health is due to habitat quality that has degraded over time. The department strives to preserve aquatic habitat health by protecting habitat from the effects of construction projects through the Hydraulic Project Approval (HPA) work, consulting with businesses, landowners and governments regarding aquatic species impacts, reducing the risk and devastation of oil spills, ensuring enough water remains in waterways to support healthy fish lifecycles, and monitoring and controlling invasive species. The department seeks to restore degraded habitat by improving fish passage through removal of stream barriers and screening of water diversions, developing and implementing plans to recover imperiled species and seeking out grant funding to use towards completing various restoration projects. Furthermore, effectively addressing the dual challenge posed by the changing climate and a rapidly growing human population is fundamental to WDFW’s success in the 21st century in all of these areas. To ensure this success, the department studies and plans for climate impacts on aquatic lands and resulting effects on species. In order to successfully preserve and restore aquatic habitats, the department maintains enforcement presence throughout the state to ensure construction projects near waterways are compliant with HPA permits, inspect vessels for invasive species, perform orca patrols and enforce all statewide rules and regulations that protect aquatic habitats and species.

Perpetuating and managing wildlife, fish and shellfish into the future requires healthy terrestrial habitat. The department strives to preserve terrestrial habitat health by consulting with businesses, landowners and governments regarding terrestrial species and habitat impacts and legalities, partnering with private landowners to implement conservation strategies, permitting and regulating wildlife-related businesses such as taxidermy and rehabilitation centers, and responding to and mitigating wolf conflicts. The department seeks to restore degraded terrestrial habitat and imperiled species by developing and implementing plans to recover and sustain diverse wildlife and seeking out grant funding to use towards completing various habitat restoration projects. Furthermore, effectively addressing the dual challenge posed by the changing climate and a rapidly growing human population is fundamental to WDFW’s success in the 21st century in all of these areas. To ensure this success, the department studies and plans for climate impacts on lands and resulting effects on species. In order to successfully preserve and restore terrestrial habitats, the department maintains enforcement presence throughout the state to respond to incidents such as wolf depredations, ensure compliance of wildlife related businesses such as taxidermists and rehabilitation centers and enforce all statewide rules and regulations that protect terrestrial habitats and species.

WDFW owns and manages over one million acres of land throughout Washington. These lands provide habitat for fish and wildlife, as well as recreational opportunities for the public, such as hunting, fishing and wildlife viewing. WDFW’s land base is strategically developed based on the conservation needs of fish and wildlife, and provides sustainable fishing, hunting, wildlife viewing and other recreational opportunities when compatible with healthy and diverse fish and wildlife populations and their habitats. To effectively and responsibly own and manage public lands, the department maintains and improves the ecological health of its lands, strategically acquires new lands or sells lands that no longer serve the mission, builds and maintains safe, sanitary and ecologically friendly water access sites and ensures public safety through enforcement presence.

WDFW is responsible for the management of Washington commercial and recreational fisheries. Management of these fisheries includes maintaining compliance with complex intersections of tribal treaties, international agreements, case law, federal Endangered Species Act restrictions and monitoring of species health and populations. To manage fisheries, the department monitors and manages populations of both shellfish and fin fish; develops, negotiates and implements fisheries co-management plans; markets and sells fishing licenses; and manages licenses for commercial fishing groups. In order to effectively manage fisheries, the department maintains enforcement presence in commercial marine areas as well as recreational fishing locations for trout and anadromous fish, such as salmon.

WDFW maintains 81 hatcheries, either through direct ownership or management contracted with cities or counties in order to meet their mitigation requirements. These hatcheries produce healthy fish to benefit the citizens of Washington while providing conservation to natural origin salmonids. Production of hatchery fish is critical for the majority of fishing opportunities throughout Washington – trout and anadromous salmon and steelhead fisheries rely on the presence of hatchery fish in our waterways. Additionally, production of salmon, specifically Chinook, is critical to the recovery of southern resident killer whales. Hatchery conservation programs contribute to protecting and preserving natural runs of salmon and steelhead. Hatchery programs also help us meet co-management plans and court ordered directives. The production of hatchery fish also requires facility maintenance of the system of 81 hatcheries owned or managed by the department.

WDFW’s wildlife population monitoring, protection and research help us ensure that wildlife populations will endure and provide future generations the opportunities to enjoy an abundant resource. These hunting opportunities, if protected in perpetuity, will promote a healthy economy; protect community character; maintain an overall high quality of life while delivering high-quality hunting experiences for the human populations we serve. In order to effectively manage hunting opportunities, the department surveys game populations and population trends, as well as health of the populations, sets sustainable hunting seasons, secures hunting access on private lands, provides opportunities for hunter education, responds to game wildlife conflicts and markets and sells hunting licenses. In order to sustainably manage hunting, the department maintains enforcement presence throughout the state to deter and address instances of poaching, ensure hunting safety and make sure that regulations, such as time, place and method of hunts, are upheld and statewide natural resources are protected.

Non-consumptive recreation passively benefits from all work of the department. WDFW promotes the opportunity to actively enjoy those passive benefits by working with local communities to develop and promote wildlife-viewing activities and festivals, providing wildlife web cameras featuring bald eagles, salmon, owls and more on its website, maintaining interpretive signs at select wildlife areas, and producing self-guiding pamphlets and birding trail maps. Additionally, WDFW promotes wildlife festivals, citizen science, bird watching, land-based whale watching, fish-migration viewing, beach combing, target shooting, outdoor learning, outdoor skill building, self-guided outdoor experiences, community-centric resources to interpret local wildlife and fish resources and active lifestyle opportunities that allow the public direct contact with wilderness and wild native places.

An effective agency requires administrative infrastructure that successfully supports the needs of staff who perform work directly in service to the mission. The department’s business management work comprehensively supports the entire agency and meets obligations by providing agency leadership and strategy, communicating with the public and legislature, managing finance and contracts, managing human resources, managing information technology infrastructure, building and maintaining office facilities, maintaining agency records, responding to public safety incidents (obligation to general policing by fully commissioned WDFW officers) and accessing legal counsel from the Office of the Attorney General.

This activity provides strategic leadership and management oversight of the day-to-day operations of the agency. The activity includes executive management, financial services, communications, and external relations functions. This activity supports the three statutorily created Partnership Boards: the Leadership Council, the Ecosystem Coordinating Board and the Science Panel. Staff also ensure other decision-makers who are critical to Puget Sound recovery remain well-informed and understand the complexity of the issues and the actions underway to sustain Puget Sound.

This activity oversees and implements a shared science-based system of measurement, monitoring, and analysis used to evaluate effectiveness of specific project types as well as progress toward the collective Puget Sound recovery effort. Information on ecosystem conditions is generated through implementation of the biennial science work plan, which describes the research, monitoring, and modeling needed to guide recovery efforts. This data informs the prioritization of implementation strategies, revisions to the Action Agenda (the shared roadmap for Puget Sound recovery), and key policy decisions. The performance management aspect of this activity includes tracking, analyzing, and reporting on progress of Action Agenda implementation and status of 2020 recovery targets set by the Leadership Council. Progress is reported in the biennial State of the Sound report.

This activity facilitates technical and financial assistance to plan and catalyze the priority recovery actions of local integrating organizations and salmon recovery watershed groups. The Partnership facilitates the participation of local integrating organizations in prioritizing and catalyzing local near-term actions for the Action Agenda by supporting the development of local recovery plans. It helps establish a consistent approach to recovery planning so the most strategic and effective ecosystem recovery efforts are identified and implemented first. The Partnership is also the state designated Puget Sound salmon recovery organization and supports 16 watershed areas within the Puget Sound region. It assists local decision makers to develop, update, and implement federally-approved Chinook and steelhead recovery plans, as well as coordinating region wide salmon recovery implementation reporting, monitoring, and adaptive management. Through these functions, local barriers to recovery implementation are addressed by working with partners to find regional solutions.

This activity works with partners (state, federal, and local agencies, tribal governments, and non-profit organizations) to create a prioritized list of actions and strategies to achieve ecosystem recovery targets through a shared plan called the Puget Sound Action Agenda. Much of this work is coordinated through the efforts of the Partnership’s statutorily created boards: the Leadership Council, Ecosystem Coordination Board, and the Science Panel (and their respective sub-committees). This function also works to align systems supporting the recovery effort to create an environment most conducive to funding and implementing the Action Agenda.

This activity provides executive leadership for all agency operations and oversees financial accountability, human resource management, information technology services, facilities management, State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) review, and public disclosure on an agency-wide basis. This activity represents the "overhead" portion of administrative functions; the remainder is distributed as "indirect" to all DNR activities.

Camps provide trained crews for emergency fire suppression, recreation facility improvements, community projects, forest health improvement projects and state land management activities. The camps are managed in coordination with training and rehabilitation goals of the Department of Corrections and the Department of Children, Youth and Families.

The Forest Practices program implements forest practice rules and regulations and conducts enforcement activities on non-federal forest lands. The Forest Practices Program develops and issues forest practices operational guidance; reviews, conditions, approves, and enforces forest practices applications; ensures road maintenance and abandonment plans extension work is being completed; supports the Regions on appeal work; conducts internal and external training; supports the Forest Practices Board; conducts rulemaking as directed by the Forest Practices Board; and develops and updates the Forest Practices Board Manual including rules affecting industrial and small forest landowners.

This activity produces technical information and science based recommendations to assist the Forest Practices Board in determining if and when it is necessary or advisable to adjust forest practices rules and guidance in order to achieve Forests and Fish goals, resource objectives, and performance targets. This is a required component of the State’s Forest Practices and Fish Habitat Conservation Plan.

The Small Forest Landowner Office (SFLO) improves the economic vitality and environmental quality of small forestland holdings. This is accomplished by providing expertise and technical assistance; assisting with development of alternate management and harvest plans, managing the purchase of conservation easements from small forest landowners under the Forestry Riparian Easement Program; and elimination of barriers to fish habitat through the Family Forest Fish Passage Program. The SFLO also manages the Rivers and Habitat Open Space Program (RHOSP). RHOSP purchases conservation easements from eligible forest landowners for the preservation of channel migration zones and critical habitat (state) for threatened and endangered species.

This activity evaluates and issues reclamation permits and performs compliance at surface mines, provides technical assistance to operators, and consults with other agencies with jurisdiction on surface mine and metal mine projects. The Department serves as the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) lead agency for some surface mining actions. The program also issues oil and gas and geothermal well drilling permits, seismic survey permits, and serves as lead agency for SEPA compliance on these permits. Activities include processing permit applications and reviewing reports submitted by the permit holders describing their activities.

This activity includes maintenance activities and operational support for more than 160,000 acres of Natural Areas Preserves (NAPs) and Natural Resources Conservation Areas (NRCAs). The Natural Areas Program maintains and restores the conservation values of NAPs and NRCAs in critical and at risk habitats, such as Puget Sound shorelines, protecting native ecosystems and rare plants and animal species, while providing research and environmental education opportunities and, where appropriate, low-impact public uses.

The Natural Heritage Program maintains scientific information and data on Washington's native ecosystem and rare plant and animal species to help ensure the protection and maintenance of Washington’s natural diversity. It maintains a listing of the most imperiled and rare native species and ecosystem types and assigns conservation priorities to each species and ecosystem. It also supports informed decisions (e.g. GMA decisions and forest certifications) by natural resource managers, planners, and businesses and consults on the impact of land use and land management activities on the state's plants, animals, and natural communities.

DNR Police protects trust assets and public safety. They promotes and monitor safe access to department-managed lands and facilities for both non-motorized and motorized recreation. Natural Resources Police Officers (NRPO’s) provide enforcement on over 160 recreation sites and more than 1,100 miles of trails across the state. They also work collaboratively with other state and local enforcement agencies to provide seamless coverage. The majority of NRPO time is devoted to detection and/or apprehension of persons committing infractions or violating traffic and criminal laws.

This activity provides direction and management for the region-based product sales program, including planning, marketing, presales, cruising, and contract administration. Sustained non-tax revenue generated from state trust land timber sales and biomass conversion supports trust beneficiaries, including the common school construction fund, universities and timber counties.

DNR manages more than 2,000 agricultural leases on one million acres of trust lands leased as ranches, family farms, or offered for grazing. The Department also manages another 1000 leases for wind power; rock, sand, gravel, and minerals; communication sites; commercial real estate. The DNR has acquired more than 2,900 easements for managing state trust lands and has granted more than 7,900 rights-of-way to others who want access across state lands. Sustained non-tax revenue generated from leases and rights-of-way that supports trust beneficiaries, including the common school construction fund, universities and timber counties.

This activity develops silvicultural prescriptions and applies forest stand treatments on 2.1 million acres of forested state trust lands. It manages forest stand regeneration on harvested state lands, and stand management activities including vegetation control and precommercial thinning. Silvicultural prescriptions applied to forested state trust lands ensure future healthy forests, and reforestation of all harvested areas ensures availability of state forests in the future. DNR grows seedlings for replanting forested state trust lands and for sale to the public. DNR also manages seed orchard and seed collection/extraction/storage programs in order to meet reforestation requirements and ensure future forests are well-adapted and genetically diverse. DNR monitors performance and implementation of the state trust lands habitat conservation plan (HCP) and other program guidelines.

DNR completes and implements a sustainable harvest calculation for eastern and western Washington. DNR provides inventory and site information for forested state trust lands and develops landscape/watershed/basin level forest plans. DNR provides scientific support for policies and resource management programs to ensure sustainable resources on state lands, including threatened and endangered species, riparian areas for water quality, archeological and historical sites, and protection of unstable slopes. DNR monitors the effectiveness of HCP conservation strategies in producing anticipated habitat conditions. Research is conducted to provide information pertinent to HCP strategies and adaptive management. DNR maintains green certification across 2.1 million acres of forested state trust lands.

This program is responsible for providing professional surveying and mapping services for the management of state lands. It also is responsible for acquiring surveying and mapping products used for land management and natural resource protection. These products are available for DNR resource management and protection activities, other government agencies, businesses, and the public. Statewide aerial imagery is acquired for use by DNR and made available through the state portal to other state agencies. This program also provides staff support to the Board of Geographic Names. This program provides a statewide database for the identification and preservation of survey maps for use in the monumentation of property boundaries in the state. Activities include maintaining a statewide survey records repository; providing research material to government, the public, and survey professionals; providing on-the-ground technical property boundary support to DNR land management activities; and maintaining the official Cadastre for ownership and encumbrance records for DNR upland and aquatic land management.

The Department manages the existing state forest road system (approximately 14,000 miles), providing access to DNR lands for forest management activities; develops standards and tools for road and bridge design and construction; administers natural resource engineering public works contracts; and provides forest engineering expertise and support to state lands programs.

This program protects and enhances the value of State Trust Lands, conservation lands and Community Forest Trust lands through strategic property transactions. Using land sales, purchases, transfers, and exchanges, the program improves the financial performance of State Trust Lands while also meeting conservation and recreation goals. Through state and federal grant programs, including the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program, Forest Legacy, and Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund, this program protects ecologically significant lands and working forests threatened by conversion to other uses. Through strategic work with local community interests, the DNR will protect forest landscapes through the Community Forest Trust program. This enables DNR to establish a statewide system of natural areas, meet the goals of DNR's Policies for Sustainable Forests and Habitat Conservation Plan, and maintain working natural resource landscapes.

This activity authorizes uses of state-owned aquatic lands that encourage public access, are water-dependent, protect the environment, use renewable resources, and generate revenue. DNR contracts with public and private entities across the state through leases and port management agreements. The Department asserts state ownership, identifies appropriate transaction opportunities, applies leasing conditions to ensure habitat protection based on sound science, and maintains ownership and encumbrance data for state-owned aquatic lands.

This program oversees the commercial harvest of the state wildstock geoduck resource and represents proprietary and resource co-manager interests in state-tribal shellfish management. Activities include managing the harvest of the state's share of the geoduck annual total allowable catch; representing the Department on state-tribal shellfish harvest agreements; working with co-managers and lessees to protect shellfish resources and ensure environmental protection; conducting auctions to maximize state revenues; and conducting market research and economic analysis.

This activity ensures environmental protection in marine and aquatic ecosystems by conducting restoration activities, removing derelict vessels, managing dredged materials, collaborating on regulator-led cleanup of contaminated sediments, controlling invasive species, designating and managing aquatic reserves, and supporting the Puget Sound Partnership Action Agenda.

This activity tracks temporal trends in eelgrass, floating kelp, and intertidal biotic communities in support of Puget Sound’s health and recovery. This activity also monitors changing ocean conditions and impacts from climate change and ocean acidification.

Forest Insect & Disease - statewide annual monitoring for forest insect and disease conditions; provides education, technical and financial assistance to state and private forest landowners and managers in efforts to improve optimal forest health conditions and resilience. Urban & Community Forestry - statewide coordinated technical, educational and financial assistance to communities and cities to help establish locally-funded, supported, and maintained urban forestry programs to enhance stormwater mitigation, greenspace enhancement/protection, improved quality of life and health for Washington’s urban area residents. Community Wildfire & Resilience Preparedness – supports the development and implementation of community-based action plans such as Community Wildfire Protection Plans; provides technical assistance to communities seeking to attain Firewise USA ® recognition, Fire Adapted Community status and implementation of defensible space actions; and by implementing prioritized forest management treatments to reduce hazardous fuel conditions in community settings. Forest Health & Resiliency Landowner Assistance - statewide coordinated technical, educational and cost-share assistance to private non-industrial forest landowners; assists landowners identify their land management vision and objectives, develop a plan and identify cost-share opportunities to conduct active management, as well as improve understanding of current forest conditions and future forest management needs to ensure optimal forest health and resiliency. Prescribed Fire – develop and implement statewide program with an emphasis in fire-prone ecosystems of the state. The Forest Health Program implements the requirements of SB 5546, Forest Health Assessment and Treatment Framework, passed in 2017. SB 5546 directs DNR to build on the 20-Year Forest Health Strategic Plan process to 1) develop an assessment and treatment framework designed to proactively and systematically address the forest health issues facing the state, and 2) endeavor to assess and treat one million acres of land by 2033. This includes: identifying and assessing each biennium two hundred thousand acres of fire prone lands and communities that are in need in of forest health treatment; identifying the types and costs of treatments, data and planning needs to carry out recommended treatments; developing an appropriations request to the Legislature with a prioritized list of treatments and completing a report summarizing previous treatments and any implementation barriers.

This activity protects and enhances the value of Community Forest Trust lands managed by the department. This activity includes maintenance activities and operational support for more than 55,000 acres of existing community forests, with an emphasis on self-sustaining, active forest management as well as recreation. It requires a community working forest management plan developed by the department and local partners.

Provide training for agency firefighters, including incident-management team members, seasonal firefighters, and permanent fireline-rated personnel. Also maintains fire training records for fire district and department personnel in the incident qualification system.

SB 5546, Forest Health Assessment and Treatment Framework (passed in 2017) - SB 5546 directs DNR to build on the 20-Year Forest Health Strategic Plan process to 1) develop an assessment and treatment framework designed to proactively and systematically address the forest health issues facing the state, and 2) endeavor to assess and treat one million acres of land by 2033; the DNR has committed to treating 1.25 million acres of unhealthy forest by 2037. This includes: identifying and assessing each biennium two hundred thousand acres of fire prone lands and communities that are in need of forest health improvement treatment; identifying the types and costs of treatments, data and planning needs to carry out recommended treatments; developing an appropriations request to the Legislature with a prioritized list of treatments and completing a report summarizing previous treatments and any implementation barriers each biennium (due December even year). Statewide Forest Action Plan – Congress, through the 2008 Farm Bill, required states to assess the condition of trees and forests within their boundaries, regardless of ownership, and develop strategies to: conserve working forest landscapes, protect forests from harm, and enhance public benefits from trees and forests. These plans are required to be updated every 5 years and every 10 years must be more fully revised – the next revision is due June 30, 2020. These plans are required for WA to continue receiving federal monies to be invested in our state and private forestry programs which includes State Fire Assistance, Forest Legacy, Forest Stewardship, Urban & Community Forestry, Volunteer Fire Assistance, and Landscape Scale Restoration.

The Federal Lands Program supports planning and implementation of federal forestland, watershed, and rangeland restoration across Washington on National Forest Lands and Bureau of Land Management lands. The program was established in late 2018, prior to which there was no formalized function for the department to implement projects on federal lands. For the 19-21 biennium the program is beginning implementation of the Expected Results to treat on average 10,000 acres of federal land that contribute to meeting the1.25 million acres treated (forest thinning, surface fuel mitigation, prescribed fire etc.) by 2037 as outlined in the 20-Year Forest Health Strategy; and annually produce 20,000 MMBF statewide from federal restoration projects on each major national forest in Washington.

The Pollution Control Hearings Board (PCHB) and Shorelines Hearings Board (SHB) within the Environmental and Land Use Hearings Office are independent, quasi-judicial adjudicative boards that hear appeals of certain local, regional, and state agency environmental decisions related to permitting and enforcement. The Boards conduct evidentiary hearings, evaluate scientific and other factual evidence, and produce written legal decisions that interpret, apply, and enforce state environmental laws related to water rights, water quality, air quality, hazardous waste, forest practices, and shoreline management.

The Growth Management Hearings Board (GMHB) within the Environmental and Land Use Hearings Office is an independent, quasi-judicial adjudicative board that resolves disputes regarding local government compliance with the land use planning requirements of the Growth Management Act (GMA) and related matters. The GMHB uses regional panels to hear appeals related to local government comprehensive plans, development regulations, and other components of the GMA. The final products from the GMHB are legal decisions which enforce the State's Growth Management Act (RCW 36.70A).

The administration activity supports agency functions by providing leadership, cross-program support, and staff presence throughout the state. Administration manages the agency's long-term financial health and provides information to support sound decision-making and resource management by managers. Communication, education, and outreach tools play a major role in protecting and improving the environment. Administration staff serve as liaisons to Congress, the state Legislature, local governments, businesses, Indian tribes, and environmental and citizen groups. Administration helps managers and employees create a safe, supportive, and diverse work environment by providing comprehensive human resource services. It also oversees information management (desktop and network services, application development, and data administration) and facility and vehicle management; maintains the agency’s centralized records and library resources; responds to public records requests; and provides mail services.