Jason Foose

Jason Foose is the county surveyor of Mohave County in Arizona. He originally hails from the Connecticut Western Reserve Township 3, range XIV West of Ellicott's Line Surveyed in 1785 but now resides in Township 21 North, Range 17 West of the Gila & Salt River Base Line and Meridian.

Articles by Jason Foose

• Is this the death of the PLSS?

  Wednesday, February 22, 2017

  Alaska's PLSS survey is still in its infancy. Freshly placed monuments are still steaming, and some 35 million acres of state lands are yet unsurveyed — that's about the size of the state of New York. I caught wind that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is proposing to transfer the balance of state land to Alaska through the Direct Point Positioning Survey (DPPS) method.