​Royalty Working Group Conference, April 21-22, 2016, Denver, CO

• Agenda
• States Mineral Overview
• Program Booklet
• Benefits of Online Lease Sales
• Oil and Gas Lease Terms and Royalty Rate Revisions
• Natural Gas & Oil Market Update
• Current Regulatory and Legislative Issues for COGCC

2016 Winter Conference, February 29-March 3, 2016, Washington, D. C.

• Agenda
• Forests, Forest Industry and State Trust Lands
• Large Landowner Initiative
• Transmission Line Rights-of-Way
• Wildfire in Idaho

Jan 27th, 2016 Royalty Working Group Webinar

• Coal Environment in Washington DC (.pdf)
• Tackling State O&G Reporting Challenges (.pdf)

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2015

Royalty Policy Working Group Webinar, September 28, 2015

• Overview of Production Facilities and Commingling by Matthew T. Scott, P.E. (Texas GLO)
• Unbundling Natural Gas Transportation and Processing Costs by Mark Lambert (Pearson Watson Millican)

2015 Summer Conference, July 19-23, Moab, Utah

• Agenda

Royalty Policy Working Group Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 2015.

• Agenda
• Gas Plant Accounting and Auditing
• Transformational Compliance - An Integrated approach to risk and program performance management
• Office of Natural Resources Revenue Update (ONRR)
• Current Issues in Oil and Gas Royalty Litigation
• National Association of Royalty Owners (NARO)
• Standardized Royalty Data Sets

Phoenix, Arizona - January 2015

• Agenda
• Laying the Groundwork for Coordination Between State and Federal Partners: Can Federal Law Work for You?
• Tools for Development: Mitigation and Conservation Banking Balancing Trust Obligation with Mitigation Requirements
• Governors Natural Resources Review Council
• Colorado State Land Board Ecosystems Services / Mitigation Program
• Commercial Real Estate Challenges and Opportunities on Trust Lands
• Asset Management Committee Meeting Minutes
• Portfolio Management Supplemental Materials
• Should Your State Become Proactive in Regulatory Aquatic Habitat?
• Getting to "Win-Win" Under the Endandered Species Act
• Federal Regulatory & Policy Changes: How does this affect You? Creating Tools for your Toolbox!
• Panel Questions: Federal Regulatory & Policy Changes
• The Expanding Role of Critical Habitat Under the ESA
• Western Governor's Association
• Legal and Policy Matters

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2014 Summer Conference (Bismarck, ND)

• Agenda
• WSLCA Asset Management Committee Presentation
• Come Shale Away: Our Take on The Limits to Progress, Natural Resources and the Economy
• Trust Matters Panel Discussion
• The Bakken - Reshaping North Dakota's Horizon
• Lignite - North Dakota's Black Diamond
• EIA Forecasts on Tight Oil Production, Development Trends, Infrastructure Expansions, and Potential Emerging Markets for Natural Gas Consumption
• Total Recall: Data Collection and LiDAR
• Sage Grouse Recovery and Impact on Western States
• Impacts of Oil Development on Grassland Birds in North Dakota

2014 Winter Conference (Little Rock, AR)

• Agenda
• Endangered Species Act - Achieving Recovery and Preventing Extinction
• Improving with Technology
• Utah Prairie Dog Mitigation Bank - Conservation Easement Agreement
• Partnership with the Colorado State Land Board - Table Top Mitigation Bank
• Game Change: Meet Mitigation Analyst - A New Data Analysis Tool Developed for the NMBA
• Utilizing New Technologies - Public Land Record Access & GIS Mapping
• PHX Wildearth Guardians Opinion 9-12-13 and Wildearth Guardians v Baier/Knight

2013 Summer Conference (Omaha, NE)

• Agenda
• Climate Change: What we know, What we expect
• E & P Upstream Issues
• Exploring Endowment Fund Investment Models
• Sustaining the Beneficial Use of Water
• The Aransas Project Vs. Bryan Shaw

2013 Winter Conference (Oklahoma City, OK) 

• Agenda
• Summary
• Maintaining a System Balance - Competing Water Resource Interests
• Water and Tribal Authority - Managing Legal Uncertainties
• The Oil and Gas Industry in Oklahoma - Economic Impacts Today and Tomorrow

2012 Summer Conference (Eugene, OR) 

• Agenda 
• Summary
• Western Timberland Market Value Drivers and Trends - Mark Rasmussen, Mason Bruce & Girard
• Benefiting Forest Landowners through Carbon Credit Revenue - David Ford, L&C Carbon, LLC
• Urban Development: Projects, Strategies, and Lessons - Jim Adams, AZ
• Strategies for Captured Equity - Tobin Follenweider, CO
• Urban Commercial Assets: Office, Retail, Storage - Kathy Opp, ID
• Urban Development of Trust Lands: Opportunities/Challenges - Douglas Buchi, UT

2012 Winter Conference (Austin, TX) 

• Agenda
• Information Session: Royalty Reporting and Lease Management
• Permitting Fishing Cabins on Coastal Lands
• Disaster Recovery Program
• Dealing with the Ups, Downs and Ups of the Real Estate Market
• American Energy Policy and Other Funny Stories: Climate Change: An Engineer's Perspective; and The Smart Grid: Updating a Century-Old Legacy
• Asset Management
• Solar Generation in the ERCOT Market
• Expanding Geothermal Resources
• Offshore Wind Energy
• Landowner and Community Benefits of Wind Farms
• Prudent Development: Realizing the Potential of North America's Abundant Natural Gas & Oil Reserves

2011 Summer Conference (​Rapid City, SD)

• Agenda
• Asset Management Committee
• FDIC - Richard Cofer

2011 Winter Conference (Long Beach, CA) 

• ​Agenda

2010 Summer Conference (Kalispell, MT)

• Biomass Energy’s Role in Future Forest Management
• Carbon Capture and Storage: New Opportunity for Western Lands
• Forest Management Past, Present, Future
• Forest Products Condition and Outlook
• Future Of Coal Development
• Gordon Butte
• Logging and Forest Management in Montana
• Logging: The Old, the New, the Astounding and the Miserable
• Map of Proposed Montana and Regional Transmission Western U.S.
• NorthWestern Energy’s Transmission – Now and into the Future
• Recreational Management On Trust Lands in Alaska
• Recreational Uses - Issues and Opportunities
• Recreational Use - Issues and Opportunities, Washington
• The Sleeping Giant - Bakken Oil in Montana
• Wind Development - Montana
• Wind Development Strategies in Montana

2010 Winter Conference (Little Rock, AR)

• Agenda