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Agency Recommendation Summaries

Department of Natural Resources

  Average Annual FTEs Near General Fund State Other Funds Total Funds
  (Dollars in Thousands)
Current Budget 1,750.7 326,218 697,599 1,023,817
2025-27 Maintenance Level 1,752.7 327,055 698,002 1,025,057
Difference from 2025-27 Original 2.0 837 403 1,240
% Change from 2025-27 Original 0.11% 0.26% 0.06% 0.12%

2026 Policy Other Changes

Administrative Reduction 0.0 (641) 0 (641)
Columbia Basin Geothermal Research 0.0 (779) 779 0
Fire Suppression 0.0 0 176,803 176,803
Forest Health Assessments 0.0 (593) 0 (593)
Forest Health Technical Assistance 0.0 (387) 0 (387)
Recreation Land Maintenance 0.0 (750) 0 (750)
Reduce Administration 0.0 (1,433) 0 (1,433)
Trust Land Improvement Work 17.0 0 13,371 13,371
2026 Policy Other Changes Total 17.0 (4,583) 190,953 186,370

2026 Policy Comp Changes

WPEA General Government 0.0 1,954 5,023 6,977
2026 Policy Comp Changes Total 0.0 1,954 5,023 6,977

2026 Policy Central Services Changes

Audit Services 0.0 1 0 1
DES Central Services 0.0 32 79 111
GOV Central Services 0.0 39 53 92
Legal Services 0.0 32 81 113
OFM Central Services 0.0 1,337 2,787 4,124
Self-Insurance Liability Premium 0.0 7,092 801 7,893
WTS Central Services 0.0 120 174 294
2026 Policy Central Services Changes Total 0.0 8,653 3,975 12,628
Total Policy Changes 17.0 6,024 199,951 205,975
2026 Policy Level 1,769.7 333,079 897,953 1,231,032
Difference from 2025-27 Original 19.0 6,861 200,354 207,215
% Change from 2025-27 Original 1.1% 2.1% 28.7% 20.2%

Policy Changes

Administrative Reduction

Funding is reduced to reflect a reduction in administrative services. (General Fund - State)

Audit Services

Adjustments are made for each agency's anticipated cost of audits performed by the Washington State Auditor. (General Fund - State)

Columbia Basin Geothermal Research

This shifts remaining funding for DNR’s Columbia Basin geothermal research effort initiated in the 2021–23 biennium to the Climate Commitment Account. (General Fund - State, Natural Climate Solutions Account - State)

DES Central Services

Adjustments are made to reflect each agency's anticipated share of charges from the Department of Enterprise Services for Capitol Campus costs; real estate, risk management, and small agency services; the Perry Street and Capitol Campus child care centers; enterprise applications, and other items. (General Fund - State, Resource Management Cost Account - State, Wildfire Resp Forest Restor & Comm - State, other funds)

Fire Suppression

DNR is responsible for responding to and suppressing wildfires. One-time funding is provided for the projected fiscal year 2026 fire-suppression costs that exceed base funding suppression appropriations. (Budget Stabilization Account - State, General Fund - Federal, General Fund - Local, other funds)

Forest Health Assessments

This reduces General Fund-State funding for statewide forest-health monitoring and planning activities by 15%. This adjustment affects work related to the Statewide Forest Action Plan and other planning requirements. (General Fund - State)

Forest Health Technical Assistance

This reduces General Fund-State funding for forest-health technical assistance by 15%. This reduction applies to programmatic funding which supports insect and disease monitoring, forest-health technical assistance, and cost-share support for landowners. (General Fund - State)

GOV Central Services

Adjustments are made to reflect each agency's anticipated share of charges from the Office of the Governor for the Office of Equity. (General Fund - State, Resource Management Cost Account - State, Wildfire Resp Forest Restor & Comm - State, other funds)

Legal Services

Adjustments are made for each agency's anticipated cost of legal services provided by the Office of the Attorney General. Funding provided in the central service model is not all inclusive, as legal services expenditures are based on consumption. (General Fund - State, Resource Management Cost Account - State, Wildfire Resp Forest Restor & Comm - State, other funds)

OFM Central Services

Adjustments are made to reflect each agency's anticipated share of charges from the Office of Financial Management for existing statewide applications, the One Washington program, and other central services. (General Fund - State, Resource Management Cost Account - State, Wildfire Resp Forest Restor & Comm - State, other funds)

Recreation Land Maintenance

This reduces General Fund-State funding to a 2022 supplemental appropriation for agency capacity to maintain grounds and facilities, trails, restrooms, and water access areas. (General Fund - State)

Reduce Administration

This reduces General Fund-State funding for administrative functions at the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) by 15%. (General Fund - State)

Self-Insurance Liability Premium

Adjustments are made to reflect each agency's share of actuarially projected costs of the self-insurance liability premium. (General Fund - State, Resource Management Cost Account - State, State Forest Nursery Revolving Acct - Non-Appropriated, other funds)

Trust Land Improvement Work

This provides capacity from the Resource Management Cost Account for trust land improvement projects that maintain revenue-generating state trust properties. This one-time spending is for repairs and maintenance, including work on roofs, parking areas, water systems, and safety or environmental repairs on trust parcels. (Resource Management Cost Account - State)

WPEA General Government

Funding is provided for a collective bargaining agreement with the Washington Public Employees Association on behalf of general government employees, which includes a general wage increase of 3 percent, effective July 1, 2025, and of 2 percent effective July 1, 2026; provision of a starting wage of $18 per hour and addressing of compression and inversion, effective July 1, 2025; retroactive wildfire rest and recouperation leave, effective July 1, 2025; a prescribed fire premium, effective July 1, 2025; targeted job classification increases, effective July 1, 2025; annual lump sum payments for employees of CDHR and WSSSB, for the current biennium only; and increased paid bereavement leave. (Forest Development Account - State, General Fund - State, Resource Management Cost Account - State, other funds)

WTS Central Services

Adjustments are made to reflect each agency's anticipated share of charges from Washington Technology Solutions for the Office of Cybersecurity, the state network, enterprise services, small agency IT services, enterprise architecture and data management, Microsoft 365 licenses, and other items. (General Fund - State, Resource Management Cost Account - State, Wildfire Resp Forest Restor & Comm - State, other funds)