AK Department of Natural Resources

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Alaska DNR state trust lands, mineral permits and leases, state mining claims, and curated land-status overlays. The Last Frontier's Land Records System exposed. No credentials required.

What is AK Department of Natural Resources?

Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) — state trust lands and the Land Records System. Highest-leverage trust-lands feature service in the union: 70+ Alphabetical_All overlay layers plus dedicated MineralActivity, NaturalResource, and LandActivity services. PatchOps surfaces ten curated layers via six methods. Headline volumes: 1,950 mineral permits/leases (1,610 OIL & GAS LEASE COMP), 6,299 active oil-and-gas lease-sale tracts, 38,390 active state mining claims (191 pending, 79,535 closed), 11 oil-and-gas well-site cases, plus four curated land-status overlays (lease 5,174, mineral order 4,481, mining claims combined 120,562, state land 26,999). Filters: leaseType, status, customer (CSTMRNM), operator (OPR), specialCode, claimName, fileType, bbox/near. §0 spec drift caught: agency host returns HTTP 500 on every query — handler points at agency host instead.. Last verified live 2026-05-07.

Available Tools

searchOilGasLeases
O&G + offshore leases (~1.7K). Filter leaseType, status (ISSUED, APPLICATION COMPLETE, ON APPEAL), customer, operator. Default oilGasOnly=true.
searchOilGasLeaseSaleTracts
Active O&G lease-sale tract boundary polygons (~6.3K). Filter fileNumber + bbox/near.
searchMiningClaims
State mining claims. status: active (38.4K) | pending (191) | closed (79.5K). Filter specialCode, customer, claimName.
searchLandStatus
Curated land-status: lease | mineralOrder | miningClaims | stateLand from Alphabetical_All. Slim schema.
getLeaseById
Single lease lookup by CASE_ID (e.g. 'ADL 30001') or FILENUMBER.
listLayers
Curated services + URLs + the 4 land-status typed filter values.
getServiceInfo
Schema, record counts, enum values for any of the 10 services.

Requirements

Toggle on
Toggle on and use — no setup needed.

Quick Setup Guide

Follow these steps to connect your AI agents to this connector

Open /mcp and enable AK Department of Natural Resources with the toggle — no credentials needed.

Call searchOilGasLeases with a customer name, or searchMiningClaims to explore active state mining claims.

Connect to Your AI Assistant

Choose your AI assistant below for specific setup instructions

Follow these steps to connect AK Department of Natural Resources to Claude:

Step 1: Open Claude Settings

Launch Claude → Click the profile button (bottom left) → Navigate to Settings

Step 2: Access Connectors

Scroll down to the Connectors tab → Navigate to the bottom → Click “Add Custom Connector”

Step 3: Name Your Connector

Enter any name you'd like for this connector

Step 4: Get the Connector URL

Step 5: Add the Connector

Paste the URL in the “Remote MCP Server URL” text box → Click Add

Step 6: Start Using

Your connector is now ready to use in Claude

Follow these steps to connect AK Department of Natural Resources to ChatGPT:

Step 1: Enable Developer Mode

Go to Settings → Connectors → Advanced → Enable Developer mode

Step 2: Create New Connector

Go back to Connectors page → Click “Create” (top right)

Step 3: Name Your Connector

Enter any name you'd like for this connector (descriptions are optional)

Step 4: Get the Connector URL

Step 5: Add the URL

Paste the URL in the “MCP Server URL” text box

Step 6: Set Authentication

Click the authentication dropdown → Select “No authentication” (PatchOps handles authentication internally)

Step 7: Create the Connector

Click “I understand and want to continue” checkbox → Press Create

Step 8: Using the Connector

Start a new chat → Click the + button (left of text box) → Open dropdown → Hover over three dots labeled “More” → Select your connector

Instructions for connecting AK Department of Natural Resources to GitHub Copilot:

Coming Soon

Detailed setup instructions for GitHub Copilot will be added here.

For other MCP-compatible platforms:

Step 1: Get the Connector URL

Step 2: Add to Configuration

Add this configuration to your MCP settings file. Replace the URL with your specific connector URL from the /mcp page:

"AK Department of Natural Resources-MCP": {
  "url": "https://patchops.ai/api/mcp/...",
  "type": "http"
}

Example Configuration

Here’s an example using PatchOps MCP:

"PatchOps-MCP": {
  "url": "https://patchops.ai/api/mcp/...",
  "type": "http"
}