Education Board Passes Resolution on Trust Lands, National Monuments

The 15-member Utah State Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution at its Friday meeting, establishing an official position on federal and school trust land policy, and clarifying the need to adequately compensate Utah’s public schools in the event of a national monument designation. Senator Todd Weiler (R) spoke to the resolution adding that he […]

SITLA Board Meeting November 19

The Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) Board of Trustees will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday, November 19 in the SITLA Board Room located at 675 East 500 South in Salt Lake City. Trustees will review and consider several trust lands transactions in Utah, Washington, and Beaver counties. They will also hear reports […]

Mineral Serial Register Pages

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Scans of historical mineral serial register pages are now available. Not all serial register pages are yet available. Please visit the Land & Lease Records page.

Hiring Trust Lands Specialist for Richfield Office

The SITLA Surface Management Group is recruiting for a Trust Lands Resource Specialist in its Richfield Office.  Trust Lands Resource Specialists administer and manage all aspects of the grazing program for the southern half of the state, which encompasses 12 counties. This employee also has responsibilities over the Agricultural Leasing, Small Forest Product, and Noxious Weed […]

SITLA Land Auction Earns $673K For Public Schools

The School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) sold six trust land parcels at its public auction October 28, earning $673,500 for Utah’s Permanent School Fund. Two parcels in San Juan County sold for a total of $345,000; a 640-acre parcel in Millard County sold for $300,000; and three one-acre parcels in Garfield County sold […]

David Ure Selected to Replace Retiring SITLA Director Kevin Carter

Governor Gary Herbert announced today his concurrence with the School and Institutional Trust Lands Board of Trustees (SITLA) on the appointment of David Ure as the next SITLA Director. “David Ure is a well-known public servant who has long demonstrated the principled, aggressive, hardworking character one would expect in a fourth generation dairy farmer from […]

Monument Designations May Impact Utah Education Funding

Public education leaders are voicing concerns over the long-term impact of national monument designations on classroom funding as Utah Senate Minority Leader Jim Dabakis (D-Salt Lake City) reportedly traveled to Washington, D.C. to encourage President Obama to designate national monuments in Utah. “Monument designations would inevitably capture hundreds of thousands of acres of school trust […]

School Trust Lands in Garfield, Millard, and San Juan Counties Available

SITLA will sell seven parcels of school trust land at its biannual public auction at 11 a.m. Wednesday, October 28 in the SITLA Board Room at 675 East 500 South, Suite 600 in Salt Lake City. Widstoe Townsite parcels A, B, and C are approximately one acre each and located in John’s Valley on State […]

SITLA Cave Towers Stewardship Project

The School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA), along with 24 volunteers with the Friends of Cedar Mesa, held a weekend stewardship project aimed at protecting spectacular Cave Towers, an Ancestral Puebloan site at the head of Mule Canyon on Cedar Mesa in San Juan County. SITLA and Friends of Cedar Mesa volunteers installed 500 […]

Utah K-12 Schools to Receive $45.8 Million From Permanent School Fund

Elementary, middle, and high schools throughout the state will receive $45.8 million in School LAND Trust funds for the 2015-2016 school year, up 17 percent over last year. The School LAND Trust Office of the Utah Board of Education will distribute the record $45.8 million in annual interest and dividends from the $2 billion Permanent […]

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