Just outside my back door in Idaho is the Lolo Creek Canyon, a 1400 foot drop on both sides in 1200' horizontal. The State asked for quotes to survey...
Me and Ralph Hodges 'bout killed ourselves on the steep ridges south of Lake Celan in Central Washington in the late 1980's. If you knocked a rock lo...
Thomas Jefferson's system is both a blessing and a curse. Unfortunately for us, the curse is in the aftertaste.
We've adopted an old adage from the hardrock miners around Kellogg, Idaho: "Any day above ground is a good day".Last Sunday morning I couldn't tell w...
Wow, good stuff. That was doctrinal thesis quality. I've pondered the cadastre connection before but didn't have the background or cajones to addres...
Wow, good stuff. That was doctrinal thesis quality. I've pondered the cadastre connection before but didn't have the background or cajones to addres...
Hello Shelby,Your take is correct, but add in the flux that in the same proposed legislation essentially ALL of the newly added activities are excepte...
Let me add kudos to Kent's statements.If you are worried that the wire came from somewhere else look for splices. In our area of 30" of rain annually...
Thanks for the comments.By using your words and adding one phrase from the NCEES model law we have the answer to your question. The first step is dil...
Potty mouth!
In the foregoing dialogues we again had the manifestation that, like water and oil, Engineering and Surveying does not mix. In the beginning, surveyin...
> I'm not really involved in trying to change any of this nor am I aware of any changes being proposed for the Utah law. So is the NCEES proposed ...
That's dynamite. Can you give us any more leads or sources?
Legal Principles of Property Boundary Location on the Ground in the Public Land Survey States by Ira Tillotson. I knew the man! Well, I least our cla...
It wasn't written by any surveyors that I know. Except for a reading of the Model Law about ten years ago, that ended when laughter drowned out the "...
Oh, the power of voting. Had the re-definition of surveying been presented with a motion on the chapter level, and vote taken, had I found myself in ...
Sometimes it helps to use a metaphor. Let us say that a large number of carpenters and roofers realize that adding an Engineer's license to their res...
