#SITLAfunds19 Challenge Winners Announced
Congratulations to Three Peaks Elementary in Iron County School District and L.C. Reading Elementary in Davis School District, this year’s winners of the #SITLAfunds19 Photo Challenge. School LAND Trust Funds are interest income from Utah’s $2.5 billion Permanent School Fund endowment, which are distributed annually to every K-12 school in Utah. Co-sponsored by the School […]
#SITLAfunds19 Photo Challenge Underway
SITLA launched its #SITLAfunds19 Photo Challenge today calling for K-12 public schools to show how they are using their share of a record $74.79 million in School LAND Trust Funds this year. The challenge is open to students, parents, teachers, administrators, school community council members, and principals. Learn more – #SITLAfunds19 Photo Challenge. 2018 winners […]
Two Schools Earn $500 in #BeMined Photo Challenge
Oscarson Elementary in Piute School District and Eisenhower Junior High School in Granite School District submitted winning photographs to the #BeMined Challenge showing how minerals power their classrooms, and won $500 each for science education at their schools. The Oscarson Elementary winning photograph, submitted by teacher Sally James and her fourth grade class, showed student […]
Commercial Lease Opportunity in Kane County | Offers Accepted Until April 30, 2019
COMMERCIAL LEASE OPPORTUNITY The State of Utah Trust Lands Administration is seeking proposals for a lease on the following property: Township 43 South, Range 6 West, SLB&M Section: 16 (Approximately 600.08 Acres M/L) Sealed bids, business plans or proposals are due no later than April 30, 2019, and should include a check in the amount […]
Agencies Urge Safe Target Shooting at West Mountain
To improve public safety in the communities around West Mountain, the Bureau of Land Management, Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA), Utah County Sheriff’s Department, and Santaquin City Police Department remind the public to use safe target shooting practices. Public lands on West Mountain serve as a backyard for nearby communities in Utah […]
Tabby Mountain Sale Suspended
The SITLA Board of Trustees voted unanimously to temporarily suspend proceedings on a proposed sale of SITLA’s popular 28,000-acre Tabby Mountain property that has been under consideration by the agency and recently opened for competitive bids. At its monthly meeting today, members of the board of trustees were updated by the agency and received written […]
BLM, SITLA Request Public Help to Protect Raptors
Each spring raptors return to the Indian Creek area for nesting. Eagles, falcons, and other migratory birds use shallow depressions on ledges, cliffs and rock walls, and often return to the same site year after year to raise their young. The BLM requests that hikers and climbers voluntarily avoid nest sites during critical nesting periods, […]
#BeMinedUtah19 Photo Challenge
How do minerals power your school? We’re giving $500 to two schools who share a fun, creative photos showing how minerals power their students, classrooms, and schools.The #BeMinedUtah2019 statewide photo challenge is open to all K-12 public school students, teachers, principals, and administrators and runs the entire month of February.The Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining, School […]
BLM Releases Sevier Playa Potash Project for Public Comment
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Fillmore Field Office is initiating a 45-day public comment period for the Sevier Playa Potash Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) ending on January 14, 2019. This project helps to meet Administration priorities by increasing the availability of critical minerals, in this case sulfate of potash, which is used […]
Logan HS, USU Extension Help Reforest Beaver Mountain
Twenty Logan High School students joined state foresters and other volunteers to help plant 3,000 ponderosa pine seedlings on school trust lands at Beaver Mountain, an event organized by the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands (FFSL) and SITLA. SITLA Forester Adam Robison introduced students to a recently-harvested project area and discussed how […]