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The CFedS team is excited to bring you an all-new iteration of the Certified Federal Surveyor website, your destination for CFedS certification, CE credits and more...
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Intensive Training
Our seven-course program is now offered fully online
Continuing Education
Delve deeper via additional learning opportunities
Continuing Education Credits
Successful registrants enjoy access to a range of continuing education credits that will bolster your knowledge of western surveying practice
Continuing Education: Non-Rectangular Surveys
This course will assure legally defensible and accurate conduct of dependent resurveys of non-rectangular surveys, students will be able to collect and analyze survey evidence in a thorough and...
Continuing Education: Monumentation and the Corner Record
This course provides students with the knowledge to be able to research the record and perpetuate, re-monument or monument corners in accordance with the 2009 Manual of Surveying...
Continuing Education: Special Boundary Problems
This course will examine special boundary problems associated with multiple surveys along a common line. Three basic topics will be discussed: Corners established in a junior survey...
Continuing Education: Intro to the Geographic Coordinate Database
This course is an Introduction to the Geographic Coordinate Database (GCDB). The origin and development will be discussed along with an...
Continuing Education: The 2009 Manual of Surveying Instructions
The CFedS Panel has just approved a new continuing education course designed to familiarize CFedS with the new edition of the Manual. The course...
Continuing Education: Tussio 37 IBLA 135
The CFedS Panel has approved a new continuing education course designed to familiarize CFedS with several key IBLA decisions. The course will consist of the following elements...
Continuing Education: Stoddard Jacobsen and Robert C. Downer
The CFedS Panel has approved a new continuing education course designed to familiarize CFedS with several key IBLA decisions. The course will...
Continuing Education: Longview Fibre Co. 135 IBLA 170
The CFedS Panel has approved a new continuing education course designed to familiarize CFedS with several key IBLA decisions. The course will...
Continuing Education: Delzell 158 IBLA 238
The CFedS Panel has approved several courses designed to familiarize CFedS with key IBLA decisions. The course will consist of the following elements...
Continuing Education: Hillstrom 180 IBLA 388
on the "relation to know corners" when determining if a corner is lost or obliterated. The case involves certain county road survey records discovered nearly 10 years after the BLM survey...
Continuing Education: William D. Brown 137 IBLA 31
The CFedS Panel has approved several courses designed to familiarize CFedS with key IBLA decisions. The course will consist of the following elements...
Continuing Education: The Landslide Report
The CFedS Panel has approved several courses designed to familiarize CFedS with key IBLA decisions. The course will consist of the following elements: Read The Landslide Report, by...
Continuing Education: Specifications for Descriptions of Land
(2015) which contains the Department of the Interior's latest requirements for various types of land descriptions. Read Specifications for Descriptions...
Continuing Education: Hasenyager 176 IBLA 252
The case involves original corners recovered 20+ years after the corners had been determined lost and reestablished by proportionate measurement in an official survey. Upon completion of this course...
Continuing Education: Swamp Land Grants, Omitted Area and Island Surveys
This course provides students with a case study on non-substantial accretion and the subdivision of fractional sections that involves using their knowledge, experience...
Continuing Education: Accretions in the Public Land Survey System
This course provides students with a case study on non-substantial accretion and the subdivision of fractional sections.
Continuing Education: Avulsions in the Public Land Survey System
This course provides students with a case study that examines the division of the bed of the abandoned channel of a non-navigable river.
Continuing Education: Relictions in the Public Land Survey System
This course provides students with a case study that examines a relicted lake and the available apportionment methods.
The United States' pre-eminent public and tribal land survey certification since 2005
Our unique seven-course training program was developed for licensed surveyors looking to gain the knowledge and skills necessary for providing cadastral services on federal trust lands.
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Working on or near public and tribal lands requires special knowledge only a licensed land surveyor can posess. CFedS certification speaks to your professional abilities.
A list of active CFedS registrants is maintained on this website, readily available to those in need of land surveying services on or near public and/or tribal lands.
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