Office of School & Public Lands Duties and Responsibilities
- $267 million Permanent Trust Fund
- Apportions approximately $16.45 million dollars annually to the state’s school districts and endowed institutions
- Issues and maintains over 2,880 grazing leases for 760,000+ acres of trust land. Of those leases, there are currently 1,200 lease holders
- Inspects and repairs 98 state owned CCC and WPA Dams
- Manages 5.5 million mineral acres
- Issues and monitors all mineral leases for the State
- Controls noxious weeds on school and public lands, state-owned dams and meandered lakes
- Records land transactions for easements on right-of-ways and state-owned lands
- Receipting and accounting of about $8.3 million annually for payments on contracts, grazing, oil, gas, and mineral leases
- Serves as the state’s real estate agency by purchasing and selling property as requested by the legislature or other state agencies
- Issues Seismic Permits on state-owned mineral acres
- As of December 2024 we have 75 leases with producing wells