With a mix of returns, public lands in South Dakota will show record income for last year.

Ryan Brunner Commissioner of the Office of School and Public Lands says that came with oil and gas leases showing a sharp drop…

 

Brunner says that is up about thirty percent in the last four years.

He says there are eighty five oil rigs on state lands in the state, paying royalties to his office…

 

Brunner says they had a big year in grass land leases…

 

His office manages over seven hundred fifteen thousand acres of public lands across the state.