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State Trust Lands: History, Management, and Sustainable Use
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Overview
Compiling information from the twenty-two states that still own such trust lands, the authors provide a rare look at public land management from a state rather than federal government perspective. Although much has been written on federal management, this is the first comprehensive look at the local administration of state trust lands—which cover far more acreage than lands overseen by the National Park Service and nearly as much as those supervised by the U.S. Forest Service.
Understanding and analyzing the state trust lands has always been difficult because they consist of twenty-two state programs and 200 years of history. In State Trust Lands, Jon A. Souder and Sally K. Fairfax examine the management programs instituted by each state, exploring them as models for public land administration.
They investigate the nature and role of public resources; observe how states regulate grazing lands and mineral leases; provide insight into subsidizations and self-sustaining land uses; illustrate how state and federal policies differ; and evaluate the strength and weaknesses of market-based approaches to public resource management. State trust lands, they contend, tend to be managed more conservatively and with more environmental awareness than federal lands.
This book provides an array of tested, viable alternatives to Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service management models and will be invaluable to anyone interested in the financial, use, and environmental planning of public resources. Exploring the diverse set of experiences of state land trust managers, Souder and Fairfax present successful and less successful management practices and offer new models and data for the debate on the future of public lands.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780700609390 |
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Publisher: | University Press of Kansas |
Publication date: | 02/21/1996 |
Series: | Development of Western Resources |
Pages: | 384 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d) |
Table of Contents
ForewordAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. History of the School Land Grant Program
-Roots of Diversity: the Accession Process-Diversity on the Ground: The Evolving Provisions for School Lands
-E. Pluribus Unum: The Trust Mandate and the Homogeneous Trust Land Grant
2. Using a System Orientation to Understand Trust Lands and Resources
-Trust Lands as a Production System-State Land Office Organization, Staff, and Funding
-The Trust Corpus
-Revenues and Their Distribution
-Summary
-Appendix: Sources of Information
3. Evaluating Trust Lands Management Decisions
-Risk and Returns: Introducing the Production Function and the Lease as a Tool for Sharing Risk-Conditions for Efficiency in Production and Management
-Long-term Development Strategies
-Empirical Evidence of Development Theory Implications for Trust Management
-Conclusion
4. Cropland and Grazing Leases
-History and Current Status of Cropland and Grazing Programs-Cropland and Grazing Leasing theory
-Leasing Procedures
-Fees and Fee Systems for Cropland and Grazing Leases
-Conclusions
-Appendix: Details of State Grazing Fee Formulas
5. Trust Land Forestry
-Management Context of State Timber Programs-Trustees’ Obligations to the Beneficiary versus the General Public
-Issues in State Timer Management Programs
-Conclusions
6. Mineral Resources
-General Mineral Leasing Procedures-Mineral Revenues from State Trust Lands
-State Leasing Programs for Hardrock Minerals
-State Leasing Policies for Energy Minerals: Retain or Develop?
-Appendix: Details of State Mineral Leasing Procedures
7. Emerging Strategies and Issues
-More Aggressive Management of Trust ResourcesEpilogue-New Controversies
-Conclusions
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index