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CADASTRAL SURVEYS. Monumenting property corners and locating, mark- 
ing, and posting the property lines of the lands under the administration of the 
Forest Service is an enormous job for the civil engineers assigned to cadastral 
engineering positions. Besides surveying for corner monumentation and 
property line location, there is a continuous need of new surveys for land acqui- 
sition, administrative sites, recreation areas, and other purposes. An engineer 
employed in cadastral engineering is usually licensed or registered in at least 
one of the States within the Region to which he is assigned. The cadastral 
engineer maintains close relationship with the Bureau of Land Management, 
Department of the Interior, in searching for and monumenting public land 
corners in the National Forests. 
WATER AND POWER DEVELOPMENTS. One of the most important products 
of the National Forests is WATER. Consequently, Forest Service engineers are 
called upon to work with engineers of the power and water developing com- 
panies, the Federal Power Commission, the Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of 
Reclamation, and the Soil Conservation Service. As the choicer damsites 
(readily accessible and offering easy construction) are developed and as 
demand increases, water and power developers are going to the headwaters 
of our great rivers and onto National Forestlands. The Forest Service engineer 
works with engineers of the developer from the time a project is conceived until 
it is put in operation after construction. Even during operation he will consult 
with the developers on matters of flood routing, reservoir levels, minimum water 
releases for downstream water needs, and other matters of operation as they 
affect National Forest interests. The engineer is a vital member of the Forest 
Service team which analyzes, in advance, the long-range impacts and benefits 
of a major dam upon the watershed and its broad area of influence in all 
respects. 
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