Agenda:
Sign In and Light Breakfast (7:00 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.)
Riparian Surveys 101 with Dennis Mouland, PLS
4.5 hrs.❘ 7:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
This course will cover riparian related terminology and legal principles. Seven U.S. Supreme Court cases will be reviewed relative to basic riparian rulings. Navigability and jurisdictional issues will be addressed. A closer look will be taken at Accretion, Erosion, Reliction, and Avulsion in the PLSS, then in a metes and bounds setting. Additional resources will be listed for further study. About the Speaker: Dennis is a registered professional surveyor in Arizona and Colorado. He recently retired his PLS numbers in California and New Mexico. He has a BA in organizational management and has been in the surveying profession for over 52 years. His experience is evenly split between the private sector, including his own surveying firm, and federal government employment (BLM and USFS).
Dennis has been an instructor and course manager for the BLM/Forest Service “advanced cadastral school” and most recently serving as the National Training Coordinator for BLM in Phoenix. In that position he developed the Certified Federal Surveyors program for the Department of the Interior. In addition to having over 300 technical articles published in the U.S. and Canada, Dennis is a contributing author to the textbook “The Surveying Handbook” and authored “Ethics for the Professional Surveyor” in 1996, now in its updated second edition (2020). He has conducted seminars for surveying and real estate professions since 1984. To date, Dennis has instructed over 210,000 students on boundary survey subjects.
Dennis has taught boundary law subjects in higher education institutions since 1995 and is currently a surveying instructor at the University of Wyoming. Included Lunch Buffet (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 pm)
The Anatomy of a Boundary Lawsuit: So You Think You May be Going to Trial with Tom Sylvester, PE and PLS
4.5 hrs. ❘ 1 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.ste Tom Syl Tom Sylvester
This presentation compliments the morning session and recent survey involving water boundaries and litigation: Mesa County District Court Case No. 23 CV 30135. This case study includes: navigability, 1882 government lots and 1989 BLM survey, 1000 feet of accretion, calls to the “bank” of the river, to a fence (there are two fences two feet apart), to the Grand Valley Canal ROW (ownerless), occupation lines and deed descriptions, and conflicting surveys. Join Tom as he discusses the facts and tactics involved in this complicated case including his five hours of testimony.
About the Speaker: Tom is a professional engineer and professional land surveyor, licensed in Colorado. He earned a professional Engineer of Mines degree from the Colorado School of Mines 5-year program in 1969. Since then, he worked in Alaska for five months and served in the United States Navy. He was enlisted for over a year and then commissioned in the Civil Engineer Corps for assignments with the Seabees (Construction Battalions). He served two Austral Summer tours with Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica and one tour serving the 6th Fleet in Italy.
After discharge in 1974, he spent 24 years in the mining industry as an engineer, supervisor and manager, mostly in the western United States. He started his own engineering and surveying company with a business partner in 1998 in Grand Junction with most of its efforts focused on the surveying aspects of the profession. Since that time, he has taught several mentoring courses in surveying. He served on the ad hoc committee with the Professional Land Surveyors of Colorado, Inc. that helped to establish the Land Surveying and Geomatics program here at CMU Tech in 2017 and has led the programs to date. Registration:
$181 until August 9, then $232. Registration due by August 15.
Students are free with proof of registration.
For more information, please contact westerncoloradolandsurveyors@gmail.com.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Location
Grand Vista Hotel 2790 Crossroads Blvd. Grand Junction, CO 81506
