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News
Current News
- USFS Notice of Advanced Rulemaking - April 2023
- Letter to Department of Interior - Request to Update BLM 2002 Acquisition Handbook (in the context of LWCF) - July 6, 2021
- Advancing Conservation and Education Act - Congressional Hearing Testimony - June 18, 2020
- Senators Reach Deal to Boost Conservation, National Parks(March 4, 2020)
- Waters of the United States- Overview of The Navigable Waters Protection Rule (January 23, 2020)
- Federal Register - Final EIS - Sage Grouse (July 31, 2019)
- BLM Records of Decision - Six Plan Amendments for BLM Sage Grouse Management (March 2019)
- EPA proposed new WOTUS rule (December 2018)
- DOI issues updated NEPA guidance (August 2018)
- Minnesota Office of School Trust Lands introduces first ever School Trust Lands strategic plan
- WOTUS final rule - 2018
- DOI releases critical minerals report
- The Minnesota Office of School Trust Lands is pleased to announce the launch of its new website
- DOI Issues NEPA Streamlining Process
- WSLCA adopts suite of resolutions supporting ACE, and explaining the impact of WOTUS and federal Sage-Grouse plans on state’s ability to meet their trust land mandate to manage lands for education funding.
- WSLCA Applauds Congress for Repealing BLM Planning 2.0
- WSLCA president requests Speaker Ryan consider using CRA to roll back BLM 2.0 Final Rule
- IOGCC supports ACE legislation
- WGA continues its support for ACE and a sensible solution to trapped state endowment lands
- ACE legislation summary
Publications
State Data Compilations
Newsletters
Washington DC Updates
- April 2025 - Virtual Spring Member Meeting
- July 2024 - Coeur d'Alene, ID Summer Conference
- February 21, 2024 - Virtual Spring Member Meeting
- July 11, 2023 - Santa Fe, NM Summer Conference
- April 20, 2023 - Virtual Spring Member Meeting
- July 11, 2022 - Park City, UT Summer Conference
- September 20, 2021 - Portland, OR Summer Conference
- July 15, 2020 - Virtual Summer Conference
- July 29, 2019 - Whitefish, MT Summer Conference
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White Papers
Research
- Achieving Meaningful Consultation by Western States Land Commissioners Association
- State Funding for Wildfire Suppression in the Western U.S. by University of Idaho, Policy Analysis Group
- Recreation Access and Leasing of State Endowment Lands by University of Idaho, Policy Analysis Group
- IT Systems Development Best Management Practices for State Trust Lands (July 2017)
- Wind, Wave/Tidal, and In-River Flow Energy, Nancy Welch Rodman, Welch & Associates (July 2008)
- Principles of State Trust Portfolio Management (September 2016)
- Washington State Department of Natural Resources, The Federally Granted Trusts: What Makes Them Unique (1999)