@john-putnam "True North" has come to be somewhat nebulous. In the PLSS, True North is astronomic, although BLM has taken to referring to "Geodetic No...

When I became Morgan County Engineer in '98, the Common Pleas Judge, who wanted to meet me, came into my office and said "Welcome aboard! Here's a cou...

@fairbanksls Indeed! But compared to Charlotte, it's a pretty low bar.

@squirl Morganton is in the Piedmont. If you are driving along I40, it's about 32 miles from the bottom of Old Fort Mountain which is where you come d...

@aliquot The debate is not over. Doctors are disgruntled with falling fees. Engineers do not serve the regular market, and most are much too expensive...

@fairbanksls My friend, if they don't have the money for the fees you sort wish to see, it won't get done. And in the rare cases where it does, you wi...

@aliquot If the profession comes to rely on the 4 year colleges and universities to supply new surveyors, the profession will die. In the states that ...

@aliquot I haven't seen anything that contradicts what I have seen. YMMV. Surveyors do not serve the same market Engineers do either. Only the high e...

@thebionicman Do you mean U Idaho??ÿ Ohio had 3 programs, Ohio State, Akron State and U Cincy. Yet, they are having problems getting enough surveyors ...

@dougie I've found a number of destroyed BMs with the concrete post left, but no brass tablet. All of my destruction reports got into the data base wi...

@jon-payne The question I have is when was the degree requirement placed in force? I left Ohio at the end of 2004. Their degree requirement went into ...

@bill93?ÿ They get out of line because they lose their bearings.

I knew a Surveyor that worked for USACE in the KC Office. He left as it wasn't great working as a Surveyor in an Engineering organization like USACE. ...

@tbrown504?ÿ ?ÿ As I recall, it never became law. When I moved to NC in 2005, there was no right of entry for a Surveyor.

@norman-oklahoma?ÿ ?ÿ The state's legislation determines it. Some states did not determine which to use, why I will never understand.

I gave up my CFedS back in '18 when I had a run in with the BILS in the BIA Eastern Regional Office. The man created a 400' bust by his own stupidity,...

@jitterboogie?ÿ ?ÿ I guess I'm my own hero since I'm both.

@loyal That's what it is. I've seen a few here. If you look at old Ukrainian airfields in Google Earth, you'll see a lot of those going to pieces. A l...

@skeeter1996?ÿ ?ÿ Do you have different classifications? E.g. Shovel operator, machete operator, brash ax operator, Burro (stake bag carrier), etc.?

@bill-c The stuff I had to read for the CFedS course was written atrocity. The quality of the photocopying didn't help a bit either.