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Three substantial items moved in school trust lands and adjacent federal policy this period. The Bureau of Land Management rescinded the 2024 Public Lands Rule, removing the requirement that federal land managers weigh conservation alongside extractive uses. The Minnesota Legislature's bill to shift Permanent School Fund distributions to a percentage-of-asset-value payout entered conference committee. And the New Mexico State Land Office signed a $98.9 million wind-energy lease on state trust lands in Torrance County.

Federal: BLM rescinds the 2024 Public Lands Rule

On May 11, 2026, the Bureau of Land Management formally rescinded the 2024 Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, published in the Federal Register and effective immediately. The 2024 rule had required federal land managers to treat conservation as a use on equal footing with grazing, mining, and energy development.

Minnesota: Permanent School Fund distribution bill moves to conference committee

Minnesota's HF 3900 / SF 3593 entered conference committee on May 12, 2026, after the House refused to concur on Senate amendments. The Senate had passed the amended bill 59-8 on May 7.

The bill would shift Minnesota's Permanent School Fund distributions from the current constitutionally-defined interest-and-dividend-only model to a statutory percentage payout, set at 4.5 percent of the fund's three-year average net asset value.

New Mexico: Major wind lease signed on state trust lands

On May 6, 2026, New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard signed a lease agreement with AFE Cedarvale Wind LLC for a 10,160-acre wind facility on state trust lands in Torrance County.

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