Port, federal agency mull land swap near Steigerwald

The Port of Camas-Washougal is negotiating a land-swap transaction with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFW) that would expand the Port’s inventory of usable, and possibly developable, land near the Steigerwald refuge.

The Port and the USFW started talking about a possible land swap after realizing that one of the levees constructed during the Steigerwald Reconnection Project in 2021 would divide an area of land near the west end of the Steigerwald Wildlife National Refuge, with an 18-acre piece of Port property on one side and 11 acres of USFW land on the other.