The Idaho Department of Lands has two areas of operations: Northern Idaho and Southern Idaho.
NORTHERN OPERATIONS
Operations Chief-North - Roger Jansson
Email: rjansson@idl.idaho.gov
Idaho Department of Lands,
3780 Industrial Avenue South,
Coeur d'Alene ID 83815
phone (208) 769-1525; fax (208) 769-1524
Idaho Department of Lands - Northern Operations Areas
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Based on the 2006 Annual Report - Delivery of endowment-related and regulatory Department services north of the Clearwater River is provided by seven field offices overseen by the Operations Chief, North, who is located in the Department staff office in Coeur d’Alene. The 79 permanent personnel in these offices, assisted by more than 100 seasonal employees, oversee activities on an area with approximately 523,000 acres of endowment trust land. This operational area is the center of the Department timber program with some of the most productive timber land in the inland northwest. The annual timber sale program is 113 million board feet. In addition these offices administer grazing leases covering 66,000 acres, 48 mineral leases, 354 cottage site leases and 45 miscellaneous leases.
Regulatory functions in the northern operations area include seven fire response districts covering nearly 3,000,000 acres of state, private and federal forest land, a heavy load of approximately 3,150 forest practices notifications each year and oversight of 8,745 lake and river encroachment permits.
SOUTHERN OPERATIONS
Operations Chief-South: Kurt Houston
Email: khouston@idl.idaho.gov
300 North 6th Street Suite 103 - P O Box 83720
Boise ID 83720-0050
phone (208) 334-0200 - fax (208) 334-2339
IDAHO DEPT OF LANDS SOUTHERN OPERATIONS
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Based on the 2006 Annual Report - Delivery of endowment-related and regulatory Department services south of the Clearwater River is provided by seven field offices overseen by the Operations Chief, South, who is located in the Director’s office in Boise. The 73 permanent personnel, assisted by a similar number of seasonal employees, oversee activities on an area with approximately 1,943,000 acres of endowment trust land. Most grazing leases are located in the southern operational areas with 1,123 grazing leases and 79 cropland leases covering nearly 1,854,000 acres. In addition, these offices provide an annual timber sale program of 89 million board feet, administer 128 mineral leases, 1,016 reclamation plans, 168 cottage site leases and 161 miscellaneous leases. Large deposits of phosphate ore are located on trust land in the eastern part of the state and significant revenue is generated each year from the mining of this commodity.
Regulatory functions in the southern operations area include forest protection on 1,146,000 acres of state, private and federal land, approximately 690 forest practices notifications each year and nearly 1,000 lake and river encroachment permits.
Supervisory Areas