The CFedS program has been authorized by the Secretary of the Interior to enhance the delivery of cadastral services in Indian country.

The primary purpose of the CFedS program is to provide American Indian and Alaska native landowners, tribes, BIA and federal agencies administrating lands adjoining Indian lands with a roster of qualified surveyors, spevifically trained to provide boundrary services in Indian country. All the while assuring all cadastral services executed in Indian country are performed in accordance with BLM standards.

Joshua Bagley, PLS, CFedS is currently one of two hundred thirty four Federally Certified Land Surveyors in the Nation. Josh has completed a comprehensive training program covering all aspects of boundary surveys, whith special emphasis on the survey of Indian land. This particular area of surveying is highly technical and requires the expertise in real property law, public records research, evaluation of historical survey evidence, mathematics, statistics, measurement systems, planning regulation and current computer technologies.

H2 Surveying can perform a wide range of cadastral services. A listing of these services include but are not limited to:

• Federal Authority Surveys
• State Authority Suryeys
• Administrative Surveys
• Land Description Reviews (LDR)
• Chain of Surveys (COS)
• Certificate of Inspection and Possessions (CIP)
• Boundary Assurance Certificates (BAC)
• Cadastral Geographic Information System (CGIS)
• Development & Maintenance
• Maintenance of the Public Land Surveying System (PLSS)

Advantagess to the Certified Federal Surveyor to you:

1. Additional training that will ensure correct solutions
2. Superior Quality
3. Continually advancing education, technology and proceedures
4. Many government agencies currently choose firms that are federally certified.

Although not every client of h2 requests or has specifications of federally certified projects, h2 uses the same up-front procedures to assure our clients receive the outcome that is expected. We are centrally located in our professional work area of Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. H2's advantage is geographic knowledge and responsiveness to project location. H2 has the experience and survey knowledge that you need whether your project requires federal certification or not.