Articles written by Phil Wolff

Phil Wolff|Mar 6, 2025

The framers of our nation deemed that education was important, so to that end, they granted every section 16 and 36 for the purpose of funding schools when a territory became a state. A section of land is a square mile, and there are 36 sections in a township. The state uses school trust lands to help pay for new school construction. DNR also manages county trust lands, which make up the majority of DNR-managed trust land for our county. These county trust lands came into being when timber companies, with the exception of a couple in the early...