When you buy rural Idaho land you don’t automatically get everything beneath it. Idaho allows the mineral estate to be severed from the surface estate, so minerals (and sometimes related access rights) may have been reserved by a previous owner or sold to a third party in the past — a ‘split estate.’ Unless minerals were severed of record, they generally pass with the surface, but you can’t assume; prior reservations remain effective and appear as exceptions on the preliminary title report. Title insurance policies commonly take exception for severed mineral rights, meaning they don’t insure your ownership of the minerals. Standing timber generally passes with the land as part of the realty unless it was separately reserved or conveyed. Before closing on rural or forested acreage, review the title commitment’s exceptions with your escrow officer to understand exactly what surface, mineral, and timber rights are included.