??The early surveyors required the skills of a woodsman to blaze trails, and agronomist or mineralogist skills to document the soil structure or important minerals??[and] knowledge of botany to document the species of trees and determine the difference between plants that were edible and those that would kill them. ??Good marksmanship was needed to obtain fresh food on site, and to defend against hostile Indians,? wrote Nebraska surveyor Jerry Penry, in The American Surveyor, a national trade journal for his profession.
??Perhaps no other occupation in history has required the worker to encompass so many different areas of expertise as the American surveyor,? he theorized.
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https://truewestmagazine.com/walking-the-line-2/
American Surveyor should rerun that article
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I thought that The American Surveyor was defunct. I will have a look.
I thought that The American Surveyor was defunct. I will have a look.
You might be thinking of The Professional Surveyor, which reinvented itself with an unpronounceable name a few years ago (The Magazine formerly known as...).
TAS likely has the largest readership of the presently existing survey magazines.
I always thought that xyHt was pronounced "excite". At least that's what my easily confused brain made out of it.
What a fantastic read. I'll definitely be passing it around.