Archive: https://archive.today/pJAhM From the post: >>Brett Moline knows firsthand the complications that come with mineral rights on family ranches. The policy advocacy director for the Wyoming Farm Bureau has been sorting through decades-old paperwork on his family's ranch near Aladdin in northeastern Wyoming, trying to piece together a puzzle that spans generations. "We found out that grandpa leased out some of the minerals in the 1950s," Moline told Cowboy State Daily. "It was just something that we didn't know that grandpa did. We weren't around. It wasn't something you talked about." Moline was among those who spoke this week before the Joint Judiciary Committee of the Wyoming Legislature during a hearing in Casper to discuss draft legislation that would create a mechanism for transferring abandoned mineral rights to current surface owners.