Challenges & Opportunities

Arizona's State Trust Land Reform

Conserving Arizona's Future, Prop 106 – a citizens' ballot initiative to reform state trust land management in Arizona – did not prevail with the voters in November 2006.

Supported by a broad coalition of teachers, business leaders, homeowners, outdoorsmen, ranchers, Republican and Democratic elected officials and conservationists, the measure would have amended Article X of Arizona's state constitution relating to the management of state trust lands by the Arizona State Land Department.

The initiative would have protected 694,000 acres of state trust lands, allowed local communities to better balance growth and conservation and protected vital funding for schools.

Initiative measure [290 KB PDF]
Initiative summary [38 KB PDF]

Details of what the reform attempted to accomplish:

Improved governance [1.1 MB PDF]
Better tools to conserve land [1.3 MB PDF]
Better land use planning tools [1.2 MB PDF]
Self-funding trust land management [890 KB PDF]