HOUSTON, March 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Natural Resource Partners L.P. (NYSE: NRP and NYSE: NSP) today announced that Nick Carter, President and Chief Operating Officer is scheduled to present at The Fifth Annual Master Limited Partnership Investor Conference in New York, NY on Thursday, March 9, 2006 at 9:00 am EST. The audio webcast and a copy of the slide presentation will be available on Natural Resource Partners' website http://www.nrplp.com , and archived for 90 days following the conference.

Natural Resource Partners L.P. is headquartered in Houston, TX, with its operations headquarters in Huntington, WV. NRP is a master limited partnership that is principally engaged in the business of owning and managing coal properties in the three major coal producing regions of the United States: Appalachia, the Illinois Basin and the Powder River Basin. The common units are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol NRP and the subordinated units are traded on the NYSE under the symbol NSP.

For additional information, please contact Kathy Hager at 713-751-7555 or khager@nrplp.com . Further information about NRP is available on the partnership's website at http://www.nrplp.com .