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Choir, check and cheer at Idaho Capitol
KIFI, 12-14-23
OISE, Idaho (KIFI) – The Idaho State Board of Land Commissioners (Land Board) will celebrate the holidays with a performance from a local high school choir and check presentation to students.
The celebration will take place 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 19 at the Idaho Capitol 2nd Floor Rotunda at 700 West Jefferson Street in Boise.
Celebration includes:
- Christmas carols courtesy of the Capital Singers (elite Capital High School choir) and the presentation of the traditional “Big Check.”
- The Land Board will present the symbolic check to school children that recognizes the endowment lands and fund distribution of $61,532,200 for Fiscal Year 2024.
- There are nine endowment beneficiaries that include Idaho's public schools, universities, state hospitals for the mentally ill, state veterans homes, the Idaho School for the Deaf and Blind, Idaho's juvenile corrections system, and Idaho's prison system.
The total distribution for all beneficiaries is $100,315,000 in FY2024.
The December Land Board meeting will immediately follow the celebration.
Land managers: thinking about climate, wildfire is changing how we manage the west's land
Idaho Press, 12-13-23
When it comes to forests and grasslands management, carbon used to be one of the last things on people’s minds.
For decades, conventional wisdom has said that conserving an ecosystem means leaving it alone, only intervening when a fire comes along. However, that idea ran in stark contrast to Native American practices, as many tribes in the west seasonally burned the landscape for a variety of reasons, including stimulating the growth of edible food plants and improving habitat for the big game they hunted.
Now, the west is grappling with the consequences of leaving a fire-adapted ecosystem to its own devices for more than a century. Fueled by an overgrowth of woody materials, its forests, great at naturally storing carbon, are burning more frequently, at hotter temperatures, affecting greater swaths of land.
“These are forests that are adapted to fire,” said Katharyn Duffy, director of science operations for Vibrant Planet, a company that is developing software to inform landscape management decisions. “We have essentially removed fire from these ecosystems such that we have an overstocking of carbon in a lot of these forests that is now susceptible to be volatilely released and have all of those downstream effects.”
“We’ve seen the results of ‘do nothing’ actions, and we usually breathe it for three months in the summer in the west,” said Jim Elbin, an administrator with the Idaho Department of Lands.
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Land Uses in Idaho
Posted December 14, 2023
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What is it about Idaho State Endowment Land that makes money??? These lands are different than the rest. The Idaho Department of Lands manages more than 2.5 million acres of #endowmentland to secure the maximum long-term financial return for the beneficiaries to which the land was granted. This straight-forward directive is spelled out in Article IX, Section 8 of the Idaho Constitution. Most endowment land we manage generates funding for Idaho schools and remains open for managed recreation. That’s good news for outdoor enthusiasts and great news for our schoolchildren!
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Posted December 13, 2023
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