USFS Region 5 Land and Cadastral Surveying Services

Surveying and posting of the legal property boundaries of National Forest System Lands. Tasks may include, but are not limited to project records research, notification of adjoining landowners, corner search, monumentation and perpetuation of property and controlling corners, and boundary posting or maintenance of previously posted boundary lines. The projects performed under this contract will primarily focus on the Public Land Survey System surveys of USA acquired/owned parcels. Some work could include describing Congressionally Designated Wilderness area boundaries, marking and posting of National Forest boundaries, monumentation of new obliterated or lost boundary controlling corners, maintenance of previously marked boundary lines, general control surveys, preparation of Plats of Survey and Monument Records, Rights of Way and easement surveys, preparation of surveyor's reports and tract descriptions, and other miscellaneous work incidental to the survey profession.

These services are broken into three California Service Areas. Area 1, Northern California Service Area is comprised of the following forests: Six Rivers, Mendocino, Shasta-Trinity, Klamath, Modoc, and Lassen National Forests. Area 2, Central California Service Area is comprised of the following forests: Plumas, Tahoe, Eldorado, Lake Tahoe Basin, Stanislaus, and Inyo National Forests. Area 3, Southern California Service Area is comprised of: Los Padres, Angeles, Sierra, Sequoia, San Bernardino, and Cleveland National Forests.