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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Icepirate" data-source="post: 437515" data-attributes="member: 8079"><a href="https://gf.nd.gov/magazine/2022/oct/closer-look-at-the-blue-squares" target="_blank">https://gf.nd.gov/magazine/2022/oct/closer-look-at-the-blue-squares</a>not sure if the link will work, but here's a few interesting quotes for those that might not think the Utah lawsuit would affect North Dakota access that much. Here's a few stats that show what North Dakota has done with their state land.“At statehood, North Dakota was granted about 2.6 million acres from the federal government to be used primarily to generate money for public education,” said Jacob Lardy, land management specialist with the Department of Trust Lands. “As a young state with vast expanses of prairie to be homesteaded, the need for funding was daunting and the North Dakota Land Department (precursor to the NDDTL) sold off school trust land to farmers and ranchers in the early 1900s to quickly fund education costs.“By the 1970s the Land Board realized that continued land sales would forever deplete the trusts of their land holdings. At the time, 80% of the original congressional grant had been sold, a decision was made to restrict sales to small, difficult to manage tracts and to retain the remainder.” (I would argue on this one who determines what a small, difficult to manage tract is)"Today, Lardy said, the Department of Trust Lands manages more than 706,000 surface acres across the state that are leased for agricultural purposes, with livestock grazing being the dominate land use."The argument can be made that the land was sold  a long time ago, which is true. But can anyone honestly say the current ND legislature wouldn't love to sell off some "small, difficult to manage tracts" to the highest bidder?</blockquote>

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