ListserveMasthead600pixel

Summer 2011 

Building Trust is a quarterly e-newsletter designed to provide trust land managers with current news, tools, publications, and other information pertaining to state trust land issues in the West. Please forward to other interested colleagues and stakeholders.

 

   

Superstition Vistas

In This Issue
Reconciling Conservation with STL Management
Cooperation in New Mexico
New Trust Land Resource
WSLCA Conference Summary
Quick Hits
Quick Links
About Building Trust
Sign Up
To receive the Building Trust quarterly newsletter, or remove your address from our list, send us an email.

Puget Sound from Blanchard Mt
States Reconcile Conservation and Trust Land Management

In the spring issue of Building Trust
,the State of Washington's program efforts to integrate a conservation ethic in trust land management were featured. We weren't the only ones to take notice. High Country News ran a June 13, 2011 story about Washington and other states working to provide for conservation on state trust lands. Read the article.
Spirit of Cooperation in New Mexico

Dignitaries at Acoma PuebloA Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was signed in April 2011 by State Land Commissioner Ray Powell  

and sovereign tribal government leaders: Randall Vicente, Governor of the Pueblo of Acoma; Richard Luarkie, Governor of the Pueblo of Laguna; Arlen Qwetaki, Governor of the Pueblo of Zuni; and Herman Honanie, Vice-Chairman Hopi Tribe at Acoma Pueblo. The MOA resolves previous litigation regarding sacred sites on Mount Taylor. Read the press release.

 

 

 

Pictured left to right: Herman Honanie, Arlen Qwetaki, Ray Powell, Randall Vicente, and Richard Luarkie

 

Invitation to Assist in Building New Online State Trust Land Resource

During the Summer 2010 Western States Land Commissioners Association (WSLCA) conference, state trust land managers requested that the Western Lands and Communities (WLC) consider development of an online clearinghouse of resources, tools, and information to support state trust land managers in the West. WLC is delighted to announce initial resources have been secured to start this effort, and invites state trust land managers in the West to partner in creating a web resource devoted to trust land management issues. WLC is forming an advisory committee of state trust land managers to work with WLC in developing website content, design, features, and tools. Please contact Susan Culp at [email protected] if you are interested in participating in building this valuable tool. Thank you to the members of the WSLCA Executive Committee for suggesting this project.    

 

Summer 2011 WSCLA Conference Summary
South Dakota hosted the Western States Land Commissioners Association (WSLCA) Summer 2011 Conference in Rapid City July 10-14. Each full day of the conference had a theme: rangeland management, energy, and asset management. Read more 

Quick Hits

Arizona   

Arizona State Land Department not allowed to finance operations from trust land revenues.

Read more.

New Mexico

The New Mexico State Land Office makes history with a record breaking $17.2 million from the June 2011 oil and gas lease sale. Read more.   

 

Superstition Vistas

The final consultants' report on Superstition Vistas, Arizona has been published. Featuring an overview of the project, analysis of the planning scenarios, and a section devoted to lessons learned from the planning process, this report serves as a guide for the Superstition Vistas Steering Committee. View the report here.

Wyoming

Governor Matt Mead appointed Ryan Lance as the new director of Wyoming Office of State Land and Investments in February 2011. Previously, Lance served as deputy chief of staff for Governor Freudenthal.

 
 

Quick Links 

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy logo Sonoran Institute logo



Western States Land Commissioners Association logo









State Trust Lands Project

Building Trust Newsletter Archive
About Building Trust
Building Trust is a quarterly e-newsletter published by Western Lands and Communities, a joint venture of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Sonoran Institute. The mission of Western Lands and Communities state trust lands program is to assist western state trust land managers in enhancing the value of the trust for its beneficiaries by broadening the range of land-use information, tools, and policy options available to managers and diverse stakeholders for the long-term sustainable management of state trust lands.

SIGN UP TO RECEIVE BUILDING TRUST: To sign up for this newsletter, or to remove your name for our email list, please click here.

PHOTO CREDITS: Puget Sound, Washington photo - High Country News/Tim Chandonnet; New Mexico dignitaries - Christina Cordova, NM SLO.

NEWS FROM THE FIELD: If your office has trust land management information and tools in asset management, collaborative planning, real estate development, and/or conservation use that you would like to share, contact us. Please attach supplemental materials such as news releases, documents, and photos. 
Western Lands and Communities footer