Washington State Department of Natural Resources
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources is a state agency led by the elected Commissioner of Public Lands, responsible for managing state owned lands. WDNR has employees among 6 upland offices and three aquatic regions, distributed among eleven programs. Their authority ranges from state regulation of Forestry, and management of 1.4 M acres of State Trust Lands in the Salish Sea, State Forests, Community Forests, 58 Natural Resource Preserves, and 39 Natural Resource and Conservation Areas to management of access of State Owned Aquatic Lands (Overlapping with Shoreline Management. DNR also regulates Mining. They are the state agency that manages Wildfire. Their land management mission overlaps with WDFW and State Parks as well as Federal Land Owners.
http://www.dnr.wa.gov/Pages/default.aspx
Relationships
- broader: coastal management;aquatic buffer
- broader: eelgrass
- broader: floodplain management
- broader: forestry;coastal management
- located in: washington
- related to: Enhanced Geothermal Systems
- related to: Interior Salish
- related to: Natural Resource Damage Assessment
- related to: Shoreline Management Program (SMP)
- related to: Steller sea lions
- related to: beaches
- related to: city of everett
- related to: clean water act
- related to: community forests
- related to: deschutes estuary restoration team
- related to: deschutes estuary
- related to: embayments
- related to: federal nexus
- related to: fema
- related to: floodplain management
- related to: floodplain restoration
- related to: forestry
- related to: growth management act
- related to: habitat equivalency analysis
- related to: mining
- related to: national oceanic and atmospheric administration
- related to: npdes
- related to: oblique shoreline photos
- related to: puget sound acquisition and restoration
- related to: river deltas
- related to: state forests
- related to: state parks
- related to: tmdl
- related to: usace
- related to: washington state department of ecology
- related to: washington state
- related to: water rights
- related to: wdfw
- related to: wildfire
Source: Washington State Department of Natural Resources on Salish Sea Wiki