Serving mineral and royalty owners throughout California

California mineral owners: stay ready.

NARO California helps owners understand inherited interests, legacy wells, surface requests, and new land uses before pressure replaces good information.

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Learn Understand the record or request Start with the deed, old lease, operator history, and exact request. Attend Learn with mineral owners Hear California-specific education on records, property rights, regulation, and new land uses. Connect Meet your chapter Meet the leaders keeping California mineral owners informed and represented.

What owners here are navigating

Find the record. Understand the request. Protect what your family kept.

California owners are often connecting old records with entirely new questions. The chapter helps you identify the issue, organize what you have, and prepare for the right conversation.

Start with the Mineral Owner FAQ

These are recurring owner questions, not individualized legal, title, tax, accounting, investment, or valuation advice.

Inherited or hidden interests

Trace county records, family names, legal descriptions, old leases, and operator history before assuming an interest is lost or inactive.

Surface waivers and competing uses

Understand what a solar, development, access, or surface-waiver request is asking before signing away options you may still need.

Legacy wells and carbon storage

Production history, lease status, pore space, and storage language can raise different questions. Keep the documents and ask which right is actually in play.

California owner focus

Legacy minerals are meeting new land uses.

A century-old mineral record can now intersect with housing, solar development, surface waivers, or carbon-storage proposals. NARO California helps owners slow the request down and work from the documents.

See how NARO advocates for owners

Start with the county record

Confirm names, legal descriptions, and the chain of ownership.

Separate surface from mineral rights

Identify exactly which use, waiver, or access right is requested.

Document every change

Keep old leases, operator notices, releases, and new proposals together.

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Upcoming events and local leadership

The listings below come directly from Wild Apricot so chapter staff can keep dates and board information current in one place.

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Board Members

Meet the volunteers who serve mineral and royalty owners through the California Chapter.