@oldpacer It must be. It includes most of the US west of the Appalachians.

In PLSSia, the common situation today is that the various mounuments around the section may have been set by different surveyors in different decades ...

@gromaticus 'Cause dey so purrrrty.

My experience with DOT plans, even from the dark ages, has the stationing increasing either from south to north or from west to east. Exceptions do o...

@rover83 It appears your GIS people are attempting to create a perfectly stitched-together map of your work area by using State Plane coordinates. ...

@jon-payne Read a book way back about the Eighth Grade called, "The kid who batted 1.000". His special talent was that he could hit any pitch but ma...

@field-dog I'll leave that discussion to those who work in the mountains. None of those anywhere near me.

@field-dog Think about it like this. Where is grid in relation to ground? Below or above? How far above or below? The change in physical differe...

Flaggelation by a rodent would be far superior to even one attack by chigger. The preferred rodent, though, would be a wet beaver.

It was the very early days of HP hand held calculators. A couple of fellow students had rich parents, so they had maybe HP45s or 65s. There was a st...

We keep no indoor pets. Eliminates that issue.

In my youth I spent many hours with a scoop shovel in hand for moving grain from point A to point B. Thought I must be the world's best scooper. Als...

Lawyers have no business doing our work. But, most politicians are lawyers, so they get to pick and choose what they can do PER THE LAW.

I lost my shovel license long ago. Looked for it, but, it seems to have disappeared. Hate to go through the whole written test and operating test ha...

You have described quite well why the word EASY is so infrequently applicable to our work.

You guys are making me think of my Fifth Grade teacher. She told us one day that the wool skirt she was wearing had been purchased 28 years earlier a...