Tom Schultz brings previous experience managing Montana's Trust Land Management Division to his new post as director of the Idaho Department of Lands. Read more.

Nevada and Arizona are both moving forward with efforts to ensure appropriate development on state trust lands near military facilities.

The Nevada Division of State Lands, with financial support from the Office of Economic Adjustment of the Department of Defense, hired a consultant and worked with local governments, military stakeholders, interest groups and private property owners in a collaborative planning effort to develop a Joint Land Use Study (JLUS) for the Nevada National Guard's Floyd Edsall Training Center in North Las Vegas, Nevada.  The area is under heavy development pressure.

The purpose of a JLUS is to encourage cooperative planning between military operations and local governmental jurisdictions, and to provide appropriate tools and procedures so that future growth and development are compatible with the mission of the military facility, as well as with the future development plans of the local governments surrounding the military facility.

Colorado trying to acquire nearly 10,000 acres from the federal government that, had it not been Ute Territory upon statehood, would have been allotted as state trust lands. Read more.   

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy has published a new working paper authored by Susan Culp, Alison Berry, and Joe Marlow: Cash for Conservation: Payments for Ecosystem Services through Compensatory Mitigation on State Trust Lands in Arizona, Colorado and Montana.