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Next Edition Website

This web site provides information regarding the next edition of the Manual of Surveying Instructions (Manual). In 2008 it is anticipated a draft of the next edition of the Manual will be complete. The draft will be subject to Agency, Departmental, and Governmental technical and legal reviews. The Manual is important to landowners, and land managers, and is critical to the surveying and land tenure communities. We will proceed in a deliberate and expedited manner and do intend to consider concerns of affected parties prior to the next edition of the Manual becoming final. In the future this web site will have updates on the next edition process. In the interim I can be contacted by using the following information.

Robert W. (Bob) Dahl, Cadastral Surveyor
U.S. Department of the Interior
Bureau of Land Management
Minerals, Realty & Resource Protection Directorate
Division of Lands, Realty & Cadastral Survey (WO-350)
U.S. Postal Mail Address: Mail Stop 1000, 1849 C St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20240
FEDEX, UPS & Street Address: Mail Stop 1000, 1620 L St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036

robert_w_dahl@blm.gov
Voice: (202) 452-5132
Fax: (202) 452-7708

 


 

ANNNOUNCEMENTS

 

Bob Dahl and Stan French will present on The Next Edition of the Manual of Surveying Instructions and Idaho State Law at the 2009 Idaho Society of Professional Lands Surveyors Annual Conference, March 11-14, 2009, Boise, Idaho. For more details visit the ISPLS website at: http://www.idahospls.org/

Bob Dahl and Steve Hansen will present on The Next Edition of the Manual of Surveying Instructions and Arizona State Law at the 2009 Arizona Professional Land Surveyors/Nevada Association of Land Surveyors Joint Conference, March 15-18, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada. For more details visit the APLS website at: http://www.azpls.org/

Bob Dahl and Dave Morlan will present on The Next Edition of the Manual of Surveying Instructions and Nevada State Law at the 2009 Nevada Association of Land Surveyors/Arizona Professional Land Surveyors Joint Conference, March 15-18, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada. For more details visit the NALS website at: http://www.nv-landsurveyors.org/

 


 

GENERAL INFORMATION

Note: Files listed below are in pdf format
You may download the Adobe Reader at the following web site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html .

 

Date
 
Subject
File Size
June 12, 2002 Email: Lead, Manual of Surveying Instructions
206kb
October 22, 2002 Email: Outreach for New Edition of Manual
78kb
November 15, 2002 Next Edition of the Manual of Surveying Instructions
472kb
November 25, 2002 Research Tools
338kb
January 3, 2003 BLM Press Release
274kb
March 14, 2003 Abstract 2003 ACSM Presentation
23kb
March 21, 2003 POB Article - Land Surveyors "Bible" Gets Update
69kb
May 1, 2003 Public Land Survey States -Request for Assistance
366kb
August 20, 2003 ACSM Article - Cadastral Survey Accuracy Standards
1,241kb
October 16, 2003 National Assoc. of County Surveyors Article
175kb
March 9, 2004 Process and Procedure Outline for Next Edition
359kb
November 4, 2004 Mineral Surveys - An Aid to Bona Fide Rights as to Location
25kb
December 6, 2004 Notes on Types of Survey Systems
171kb

 


POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS

The focus of presentations have been the relevance of the Manual to the work of private surveyors. This is done by an examination of individual State's statutes, regulations and case law. The process and procedure for developing the next edition of the Manual is also discussed.   Note: You must have Powerpoint installed on your machine for these presentations to work.


Alaska40th Annual Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference-February 15, 20061412 Kb18.06.2008
ArkansasArkansas Society of Professional Surveyors - March 25, 20052454 Kb18.06.2008
California46th Annual CSU Fresno Geomatics Engineering Conference - January 27, 20071322 Kb18.06.2008
ColoradoProfessional Land Surveyors of Colorado Fall Technical Session - December 4, 2004561 Kb18.06.2008
IdahoIdaho Society of Professional Land Surveyors 28th Annual Survey Conference-February 11, 2004434 Kb06.03.2008
Indiana2005 Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveying Annual Convention - January 20, 2005962 Kb06.03.2008
KansasSalina Seminar 2007 - Kansas Society of Land Surveyors - January 11, 2007783 Kb06.03.2008
MontanaMontana Association of Registered Land Surveyors 2007 Conference - March 2, 2007883 Kb18.06.2008
OklahomaOklahoma Society of Land Surveyors 2004 Annual Conference - March 13, 2004575 Kb06.03.2008
OregonOregon Association of County Engineers and Surveyors 2005 Spring Conference - June 13, 2005684 Kb06.03.2008
Oregon - OITOregon Institute of Technology and Bureau of Land Management Workshop - September 24, 2004390 Kb06.03.2008
UtahUtah Council of Land Surveyors Convention 2008 - February 22, 2008 1375 Kb06.03.2008
Washington-OregonLand Surveyors of Washington/Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon Annual Conference- March 2006865 Kb06.03.2008
WyomingWyoming Engineering Society 85th Annual Convention - February 4, 20051375 Kb18.06.2008