About Us
Selkirk-Cabinet Land Surveying, PLLC
Selkirk-Cabinet Land Surveying offers a broad spectrum of land surveying services from simple exhibit maps and easement descriptions to complex land boundaries and litigation support. Selkirk-Cabinet Land Surveying offers all land surveying services throughout the Idaho Panhandle region and northeastern Washington, offers surveyor negligence and survey forensic review in Idaho, Washington and California, and expert consulting & expert witness services throughout most of the western United States.
Evan Page, PLS
Owner, Selkirk-Cabinet Land Surveying, PLLC
CA PLS 7275
ID PLS 20538
WA PLS 21032341
Evan’s Curriculum Vitae
B.S. Surveying, Oregon Institute of Technology, 1995
A.S. Civil Engineering Technology, Oregon Institute of Technology, 1995
Evan began his career in surveying in 1981 by attending Ferris State College (now Ferris State University) in Michigan, where he completed roughly half of his degree.
His early experience was mostly in heavy construction, having worked with the Michigan Department of Transportation for several years, having become that organizations youngest field party chief on a multimillion-dollar project. Seeking to broaden his experience, he worked with the Bureau of Land Management Cadastral Survey out of their Alaska, Wyoming, and Eastern States offices and then with private firms over the next several years. While working in western Washinton in the early 1990s, Evan decided to complete his surveying degree before starting a family, and earned his Bachelor of Science from Oregon Institute of Technology in 1995.
After graduating, the Page family moved to California, where Evan worked in the private sector in various supervisory roles on a wide variety of projects including subdivisions, large scale design mapping, telecommunications, and construction surveys. Clients included private developers, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), AT&T, and the National Park Service.
In 2003, Evan joined the Tahoe Engineering Division of the El Dorado County (CA) Department of Transportation overseeing their design survey and construction staking projects. During this time, he supervised the surveys for their storm water sediment control projects (toward improving the clarity of Lake Tahoe), nearly tripling the productivity of his predecessor while vastly improving quality control.
From 2008 to 2021, Evan worked at the California State Lands Commission where about 90% of the work was related to the boundaries and title history of the beds of navigable waterways and the lands adjacent to those waterways. During this time, Evan became recognized in the survey community as an expert in boundary matters and particularly in water boundary matters, having presented then, and since, several teaching sessions at several state survey association annual conferences, several survey association chapter meetings and other venues.
In 2021, Evan had the opportunity to escape California and has since brought his wife to beautiful Northern Idaho. From 2021 until early 2024, he worked with a well-established local firm offering both surveying and engineering services as its senior Survey Manager.
Seeking a greater say in the management of surveying services, Evan left that firm and began planning Selkirk-Cabinet Land Surveying.
Polly
Early on, Polly showed great promise with her ability to sniff out survey monuments. But after showing more interest in client’s pets and wildlife, she has been reassigned to chief of home and yard security. At Selkirk-Cabinet Land Surveying, we believe it is important that clients have the assurance that every step of every project has direct professional involvement.
At Selkirk-Cabinet, you can have confidence that a licensed professional surveyor will perform and/or directly supervise each step of each project from initial consultation to the conclusion of your project.
The Importance of Professional Involvement
In some companies offering land surveying services, the standar work flow model is that everything having to do with a surveying project is done and sometimes even managed by unlicensed staff and the licensed surveyor may only be involved for a final review of the map or other survey document requiring a surveyor's stamp and signature.
That defeats the purpose of licensing surveyors and often results in the oversight of important details and in general poorer quality provided data.
In Idaho, if you are consulting with an unlicensed person for a survey project (i.e. they are the project manager or otherwise offering survey advice), that person is in violation of the State's licensing laws.
When you are hiring a surveyor for your project, ensure that the person you are conferring with is a licensed surveyor in the State where your project is located.
If you find yourself consulting with an unlicensed person rather than a licensed professional, and they are reluctant or unable to have you speak directly with the licensed surveyor, or if they do not have a licensed surveyor at the office location, consider whether you want to work with company that doesn't care enough about the quality of their work or value you as a client enough to have a licensed professional manage your project or directly consult with you.
At Selkirk-Cabinet Land Surveying, we believe it is important that clients have the assurance that every step of every project has direct professional involvement. You can have confidence that a licensed professional surveyor will perform and/or directly supervise each step of each project from initial consultation to the conclusion of your project.