The spring land lease auction of public lands in South Dakota set another record this year with bids of over eleven million dollars. School & Public Lands Commissioner Ryan Brunner says they have acres in forty five of the states sixty seven counties……
Brunner says they have worked to keep public grassland from being converted to other uses……
Brunner says keeping it in grassland has garnered more interest in the leases…..
The state still holds title to over seven hundred seventy thousand acres.



