The Public Land Survey Monumentation Grant program is offering funds to counties to help them re-monument and certify the original land boundaries. Kandiyohi County plans to apply for $300,000.

However, in the 30 states in which the federal government, not the state, issued the first land patents to individuals, the rectangular public land survey system is used.

BRAINERD — Helped by grant money from state Legislature spending in 2023, Crow Wing County is seeking $300,000 to assist its long-standing efforts to certify the Public Land Survey, which could ...

The annual survey asked over 400 voters across eight Western States—Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming—about their views on land, water, and wildlife issues.