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Chico timberland offered at auction

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A 150-acre timber tract in Central Kitsap is up for auction in November.

The land, located west of the Chico Way/Highway 3 interchange, is being offered by Realty Marketing Northwest with a published reserve price of $625,000. Bids are due Nov. 18.

The sale “provides the opportunity to own a highly-productive tree farm, with the added benefit of potential view home sites,” according to the listing in the auction catalog. The property is zoned rural residential.

Assessor’s records show the land is owned by Port Blakely Tree Farms. Once a major landowner in the county, Port Blakely sold large swaths of its Kitsap timberland to Craig Ueland in the past decade.

Pope Resources CEO leaving for Rayonier

blog.popeDavid Nunes, president and CEO of timber company Pope Resources, is leaving the company to join Rayonier Inc.

Nunes plans to depart Pope at the end of the month, according to a Monday news release. He led Pope for 12 years.

The Pope board of directors has already begun a search for Nunes’ replacement. Longtime CFO Thomas Ringo will serve as interim CEO.

“We are tremendously appreciative of the job Dave has done in his 12 years as CEO of the Partnership,” lead director Douglas Norberg said in the release. “We wish him the best as he embarks on his new responsibilities at Rayonier.

Pope Resources is based in Poulsbo. It owns the town of Port Gamble and large swaths of forestland in North Kitsap. Pope and its subsidiaries, Olympic Resource Management and Olympic Property Group, own or manage a total of 204,000 acres of timberland and development property in Washington, Oregon, and California.

Florida-based Rayonier owns or manages 2.6 million acres of timberland and produces wood fiber products.