The environmentalists have decided to set aside 570,000 acres of state trust land for conservation. About half a million acres of state trust land can be used for parks and wildlife management areas. In the half million acres about 50,135 acres is used for Santa Rita Experimental Range, 2,073 acres in the west desert preserve, 30,172 acres in sahuarits mountains and the remaining area for wildlife corridor and to make a Patagonia lake state park.

The state trust lands have leased about 85% of land for grazing. The public schools in Arizona are run from the sale of state trust lands. The Arizona education association supports the cause that the money that it receives from the sale of state trust lands can be used for public schools welfare but deputy director of government affairs is against this cause because he thinks that the state trust land is not a public land that can be used for the public school welfare. But the state director of the nature conservancy told that the schools will get money from the conservation lands and many people supported him.