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The Daily Yonder Timber, Condos, Glamping? States Debate Land Use to Fund Schools With diminishing revenues from traditional use of trust lands, states turn to alternatives like aggressive real estate development, stoking fears of unwelcome changes to long established communities.
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This stand of state trust land forest near Washington’s Merrill Lake is logged to provide revenue for schools. (Source: The Pew Charitable Trusts)
Checkerboarded across the landscape of the American West are thousands of parcels of state-owned land that collectively cover an area larger than North Dakota. They include vast swaths of forest and prairie, fracking wells, coal mines, luxury housing developments, parking lots, cell towers and solar panels.
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Timber, Condos, Glamping? States Debate Land Use to Fund Schools
This stand of state trust land forest near Washington’s Merrill Lake is logged to provide revenue for schools.
The Pew Charitable Trusts
SEATTLE Checkerboarded across the landscape of the American West are thousands of parcels of state-owned land that collectively cover an area larger than North Dakota. They include vast swaths of forest and prairie, fracking wells, coal mines, luxury housing developments, parking lots, cell towers and solar panels.
Known as state trust lands, these parcels were given to Western states as they were admitted to the Union, setting them up with a long-term revenue stream to fund public services, primarily schools. Although the rules can vary by state, government officials generally have broad leeway to manage the lands to provide that education funding. Historically, that’s often come from timber harvesting, agriculture and grazing lea
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