Melita, Absolutely that is where the difference is magnified enough to make a significant difference. I was trying to address the comments from ashto...
The difference between the US SF and International foot is about 0.01' in a mile. Immaterial for most boundary surveys in urban areas. This change has...
What about NorthernSurveyor? I think he is a recently retired BLM official who shared he had gotten a dire health diagnosis several months ago. From A...
A friend and colleague was a professor at a prominent Big 10 university at one time. He taught a basic geology class that he refers to as "Rocks for J...
I think "Just a Surveyor" got the boot, or agreed to leave.
When I first started in this business, the company I worked for did a lot of percolation tests, most of them in mountain subdivisions that were typica...
In the early 80's one of the biggest developers in the area (Sacramento) was a client of the firm I worked for. He came in and said he needed an ALTA ...
This is what my agency uses for the surveyor series. Entry level requires a 4 year degree or an LSIT/EIT. Range D of the Transportation Surveyor cl...
Been doing it for 45 years, since before I graduated HS in May, 1977. Started as a draftsman, which was a handy skill that found me part time work whe...
Certainly game to be. With multiple choice computer based testing, little details like this are fair game, but code and law citations have always been...
602.8 Penal Code 846.5 Civil Code
Keith Williams BLM guy. I too miss Kent's participation.... I think. Someone already mentioned foggyidea (Don Poole). I enjoyed his take on surveyin...
The lowest point in California, and the US, Badwater Basin in Death Valley, is only 85 miles from Mount Whitney and in the same county of Inyo. It is ...
The one in charge. I wasn't born until 31 years later if the date cited is correct.
Some photos of that effort here: That particular one is dated June 1928. Another:
Why not contact Dallas Sweeney at BPELSG to ask? Not sure why a graphing calculator would be needed for the exam, however. It has been 35 years since ...
Not jabbed and not boosted. Won't be. I would rather take my chances than be injected, especially considering the data that is coming out on injected ...