BOISE, Idaho — This story originally appeared in the Idaho Press.

The Idaho Department of Lands is maintaining particularly strong revenues in the face of executive agency holdbacks and state revenue projections that have fallen below original estimates.

The Land Board, which oversees the state’s public lands, touted record public land revenues at its Tuesday meeting, with the present fiscal year seeing $91.7 million in revenue, exceeding the record set in FY2014 by $2.2 million.

Record Public Land Revenues

While 2014 had the highest net income, this was driven by wildfire salvage sales — in which trees damaged by wildfire are harvested for timber and sold — as well as $2 million in premium bids for oil and gas lease auctions, Jim Elbin, the trust lands division administrator with th

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