

They argued that the land should not be given out in large grants to wealthy men and land speculation companies but should be divided into small parcels and sold for low prices. The PLSS grew out of a political movement led by Thomas Jefferson and John Adams that held that an essential part of a democracy was the right to own property. Each section is about 1 mile square and contains 640 acres. In this system, land is divided into pieces called townships that are generally 6 miles on a side and contain 36 sections. Public Land Survey System (PLSS) was established shortly after the Revolutionary War as a way to describe and record parcels of land for legal purposes. Stratigraphic nomenclature: How rocks are named.Basic geology, paleontology, and fieldwork.Eons and eonothems? Periods and systems? Understanding how geologists talk about time.Providing liaison and technical assistance through a cooperative agreement between the DEP and the National Ocean Service/National Geodetic Survey and the public.

Assisting surveyors in determining the mean high water elevation to meet the requirements of the Coastal Mapping Act ( F.S.Performing identification, restoration and preservation of the controlling corner monuments established during the original cadastral surveys related to the Restoration of Corners Act ( F.S.Providing surveys and maps of state owned lands that have not been surveyed or mapped in the past in order to resolve boundary issues.Providing water level and meteorological collection and geodetic control data.Providing survey and geographic data for the Land Boundary Information System (LABINS).Performing reviews for the acquisition and sale of state lands.Performing survey and mapping services for Preservation 2000/Florida Forever and other agency programs.The Bureau of Survey and Mapping protects the boundaries of the state by: The Division of State Lands’ Bureau of Survey and Mapping is responsible for maintaining a repository of land records, determining the location of land and water boundaries, protecting the state’s interest in land by clearly delineating and defending the boundaries of state-owned lands and issuing opinions of title and defending the state’s title and ownership interests in property vested in the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund (Governor and Cabinet.)
