It is Washington house bill 1406S and requires a permit for transporting
specialized forest products.
http://search.leg.wa.gov/pub/textsea...=606182744&p=1

Specialized forest products are defined as Christmas trees, native
ornamental trees and shrubs, cut or picked evergreen foliage, cedar
products, cedar salvage, processed cedar products, specialty wood, wild
edible mushrooms, and Cascara bark. The law also includes specialty wood
which includes western red cedar, Englemann spruce, Sitka spruce, big leaf
maple, or western red alder. For specialty wood the log must meet specific
requirements.

There are limits to the amount of specialized forest products a person can
have without a permit (I.e. you can transport 5 Christmas trees without a
permit). The important part is that the law only affects the initial
transporter of the wood. The law provides a means for tracing the sale of
specific forest products back to the person transporting them out of the
forest. If what you are transporting is below the limits set by the law, or
if you are not selling the wood, than the law does not have much of an
effect. I don't think that this law will bother us turners to a large
degree.

"Owen Lowe" wrote in message
news
The following newspaper article was circulated around our chapter
meeting the other night. Since we're close to WA as well as have several
members from southern Washington it was of importance to the membership.
Anyone heard any more about this new law to take effect on July 1?