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Field Operations

The Field Operations Section contributes to the State Land Board's mission of producing "reasonable and consistant income over time" for its trust beneficiaries by managing approximately 3 million acres of state trust land and assets via approximately 3,000 surface leases. These include agricultural leases, private recreational leases, and 'other use' leases such as: surface rights above mining operations, Division of

Lowry Range, Arapahoe County
Lowry Range, Arapahoe County

Wildlife full surface uses, State Parks Recreation Management uses, State Forest Service timber management
uses, and multiple use leases that allow both agricultural and recreational uses under one lease.

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The Field Operations Section manages the Multiple Use Program, under which the Colorado Division of Wildlife leases over 500,000 acres of trust land for wildlife-related recreation.

It is also responsible for the management of programs that provide assistance, incentives
and/or cost-share to lessees to address conservation needs on State Trust Lands.  These
programs include: the Enhancement Fund of the SLB-DOW Public Access Program,  which distributes approximately $180,000/year for property improvements; the Land and Water Management Fund, a $75,000 annual cost-share fund for improvements and activities that maintain or increase the long-term value of state trust land; the Noxious Weed Fund, a $150,000 annual cost-share fund to address noxious weed issues that impact state trust lands, and the Stewardship Incentives Program, a constitutionally mandated effort to provide rewards and incentives to state trust land lessees exhibiting above average levels of land stewardship.