NLA COMMUNIQUÉ

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL LANDMEN

AAPL's website has been enhanced to include a member chat and file transfer section.  More details on this addition can be found in the "Landman" for July/August, 2000 on page 10.  AAPL held its annual conference on June 21-23 in New Orleans and had a total attendance of 873 - a significant increase in participation compared with the past several years.  The year 2000 is the 20th anniversary of the CPL program.  The 18th Annual West Coast Landman's Institute is scheduled for September 26-28 in Ventura, California.  For information call Mary Costa at (661) 324-9653 or Pat Moran at (805) 966-6596.

Rob Berry, RPL, with Land Management Services, is NLA's representative with AAPL.  Please let Rob know if you have issues or suggestions concerning AAPL.  You can reach Rob at 775-825-6488 or via e-mail at rberry@lmsgis.com.

Our speaker this month will give us an update on the legislative and political issues facing the mining industry.

Susie Mason, CPL, of Pittston Nevada Gold Company, is NLA's legislative chairman.  If you have issues for Susie to track or report on for NLA, please contact her at 775-824-4000 or smason@pngc-usa.com.

The 2000 Membership Directory has been mailed.  None of the directories were returned so it is not too far off!  Bill Houston has already made some changes on the website directory.  For those of you with Internet access, please review the information on the web site and contact Susie Mason at 775-824-4000 or e-mail at smason@nvlandman.org if there are corrections required.  Any misinformation in the printed directory will be corrected in future issues of the Communiqué.

Edd Jackson, CPL,  Landman, Franco-Nevada Mining Corporation, Inc., is the 2001 Chairman for MALRI.  The first committee meeting was held on Tuesday, 9/5/2000.  Edd is looking for topics and speakers.  If you have suggestions or want to participate in planning the Institute, please contact Edd at ejackson@fnen.com or Fax: 775-825-4994. The next committee meeting will be at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 3rd at the offices of Franco-Nevada. 

Cy Wilsey, CPL, Land Manager, U.S. of Homestake Mining Company chaired the picnic and served as the chef.  Attendance was very good and the food was excellent.  Pictures of the picnic can be viewed through the Current Events calendar on the web site.  Thanks so much, Cy!

The NLA web site started its second year of operation 9/1/2000 - nicely coincident with the assessment/annual fee year.  Bill has renewed our web hosting service agreement for an additional year.  Pictures from the annual picnic are to be found at http://nvlandman.org/picmap/pic2000.html.  This is also linked from the What's New and Events Calendar pages.

We have added a link to the GLO Federal Land Patent Record site: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/default.asp.  This site is quite good.  You can actually retrieve patent document copies from the site and download them digitally.

Bill Houston, RLP,  LandInfo Services, continues to serve as NLA’s Webmaster.   Please be sure to pass along any comments, suggestions, web links, etc. to Bill at 775-746-2434 or wghouston@juno.com.

SUGGESTIONS TO IMPROVE YOUR NLA WEB SITE ARE ALWAYS WELCOME.
Bill H

The annual institute in Vancouver was well attended (approximately 675).  The speakers were good and were well received.  The next annual institute will be in Santa Fe, New Mexico (July 19-21, 2001), followed by Lake Tahoe (2002).  The next special institute is "Ethics and Professional Responsibility in the New Millenium" to be held in Denver on December 8, 2000.  For more information, please use the NLA Links to the RMMLF web site.

Lois Hall, CPL, of Hallwood Petroleum Inc., is the NLA’s RMMLF Trustee.  If you have issues for Lois to bring up with RMMLF, please contact her at 303-850-6391 or lois.hall@haenco.com.