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College Catalog 2020-2021 
    
College Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SUR 145 - Public Land System I


3 Credits
This course covers the historical methods and framework of the American systems of land division, with an emphasis on the Public Land System.

Course Outcomes
  1. Understand and describe the procedures used in the surveys of the Public Land System in the Western United States.
  2. Describe the concepts for the restoration of lost and obliterated corners.
  3. Create monument recovery notes for Public Lands corners, control points and other monuments.
  4. Describe systematically the methods of defining locations using the terminology of the Public Land System.