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 Trust
Land Management System
In April of 2001, ALL
Consulting was contracted by the Montana
Department of Natural Resources and
Conservation (MDNRC) to develop a
Trust Lands Management System (TLMS).
The MDNRC is responsible for sustaining
and improving the benefits derived
from Montana's water, soil, and rangeland;
managing the State of Montana's trust
land resources to produce revenues
for the trust beneficiaries; protecting
Montana's natural resources from wildland
fires through regulation and partnerships
with federal, state, and local agencies;
promoting the conservation of oil
and gas and preventing their waste
through regulation of exploration
and production; and managing and assisting
in the management of several grant
and loan programs.
 The
purpose of the TLMS is to keep a current
and historical inventory of Montana
trust land; manage agreements, rights-of-ways,
and easements; receive cash payments
and distribute the payments to the
appropriate trusts; and to facilitate
retrieval of summary information across
all trust lands business functions
- including agriculture and grazing,
special uses, forest management, and
minerals management. The system was
designed for use by approximately
150 users with potential access from
approximately 500 MDNRC staff members
as well as representatives from other
state agencies. Further, the application
was designed for use in both the main
office in Helena and six (6) area
offices that are assigned specific
counties and can represent the Trust
Land Management Division's land management
and regulatory role. Statistically,
the MDNRC manages approximately 5.1
million surface acres and holds a
similar amount of mineral acreage.
Initial planning of
the system called for a period of
performance to build the system of
three (3) years. ALL is currently
on schedule to complete the system
in approximately 18 months - half
the time estimated by the MDNRC. ALL
has been able to achieve this schedule
reduction using a Client/Server development
approach that takes advantage of Microsoft's
SQL Server database with the user
interface (or client) developed as
a Microsoft Access Data Project (ADP).
The system is fully-relational and
normalized. Both administrative and
technical functions are built using
a data-driven approach to minimize
long-term maintenance costs.
For more information
about the MDNRC's Trust Land Management
Division, visit
their website.
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