There is quite a bit of oil and gas drilling and coal mining in Wyoming. I would think the revenues they could skim off of that would dwarf this paltry little real estate scheme.
Not quite as you think. The monies from the state grazing lands are pre-designated to go to school budgets. The mineral taxes go to the general fund. I will have to see if the grazing lands revenues are designated on a county basis, ie, the revenues from the grazing lands in the the county go to the school budget in the county.
Personally, I think it is high time the federal land management agencies got their heads out of their asses. They’re incompetent in the extreme, costing western states quite a bit of tax revenue and paying pennies on the lost tax dollars in PILT.