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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.
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 Mountain to Plains
Energy by Design
Energy by Design (EBD) is a framework developed by the Nature Conservancy (TNC) to identify opportunities to avoid, minimize, and mitigate the impacts of oil and gas development to natural and cultural values at a site. The Colorado State Land Board is working with TNC, The City of Fort Collins, and Larimer County on Mountains to Plains Energy by Design, a Colorado focused EBD program, to develop a strategy to lease trust mineral assets with severed estate ownership between the surface owners and minerals holders in three major open space parcels in Northern Colorado along the Colorado/Wyoming state border. The State Land Board is one of the major mineral estate holders with over 15,000 acres in trust. Read more. |
New Montana Trust Land Management Division Administrator
 | | Shawn Thomas, Montana Trust Lands Administrator |
In November of 2011, Shawn Thomas became Montana's Division Administrator for Trust Lands. Born and raised in Montana, Shawn earned his Bachelor's degree in Forestry with an emphasis in Resource Management from the University of Montana. His career began with Plum Creek Timber Company in 1994 as a seasonal inventory and GIS intern in Columbia Falls, and later as a forestry aide with the Flathead Unit in Kalispell. In 1999 he went to work as a procurement forester for Thompson River Lumber in Thompson Falls. Shawn came to the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) as the forest management supervisor of the Plains Unit in 2003, and in 2006 became the trust lands program manager at the Northwestern Land Office in Kalispell. In the fall of 2008, he was selected to be the Chief of DNRC's Forest Management Bureau.
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Protecting Military Installations and At-Risk Species in New Mexico
 | Commissioner Ray Powell and
Governor Susana Martinez sign lease |
New Mexico State Land Office recently leased nearly 11,000 acres to U.S. Air Force which will protect Cannon Air Force base, potentially create new jobs for civilian and military personnel, and generate revenue for the beneficiaries of state trust land. The land will return to the State Land office at the end of 74 year lease. Read the press release.
Additionally, the New Mexico State Land Office and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service signed an agreement to protect almost 248,000 acres of habitat on state trust lands for the lesser prairie chicken and the dunes sagebrush lizard. Read more.
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Arizona
Bill to protect Arizona's military facilities passes State Senate, moves on to the House.
Read more.
Minnesota
New bills in Minnesota's House and Senate seek to facilitate land exchanges and create a commission to replace Department of Natural Resources as the manager of state trust lands.
Read more.
Montana
Judge blocks law that reduces potential increases on cabin leases on state trust lands in northwestern Montana. Read more.
Utah Joint clean-up effort on 40 acres of Utah state trust lands removes 60 tons of debris. Read more. North Dakota
Oil lease sale raises $85 million in North Dakota. Read more.
Wyoming
Groups claim that Wyoming school trust not receiving all due royalties. Read more.
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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.
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PHOTO CREDITS: M2PEBD image - Colorado State Land Board; Shawn Thomas - Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation; New Mexico Lease Signing image - New Mexico State Land Office.
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. |
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