PORT ANGELES — A proposed land exchange of state Department of Natural Resources trust lands and Merrill & Ring properties across the Olympic Peninsula is currently in a public comment period that ends at 5:30 p.m. June 19.

At a public hearing Monday, DNR staff provided information and answered questions about the Peninsula 2 Land Exchange at the Raymond Carver Room at the Port Angeles Main Library.

The transfer would see up to 2,266.28 acres of trust land in Clallam, Grays Harbor and Jefferson counties traded for up to 2,216 acres of Merrill & Ring timberland and properties transitioning to rural residential areas.

The exchange would involve 1,566.28 acres of Common School trust lands and 181 acres of state forest land in Clallam County, 80 acres of Normal School trust land in Jefferso

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