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04.16.2023

Carlson Software: Independence + Innovation – Part 1

Us pioneers who were surveying in the 80s recognized those years as a heady time even as they were happening, as EDMs and...
04.16.2023

Retracement Surveyor Beware

The recent article in the July/August issue of American Surveyor on the Benson Syndicate, taken from Wikipedia, was of genuine interest, since these...
04.16.2023

To Describe or Not to Describe

This article addresses the need to prepare a new boundary description of a tract once the survey and plat of the tract is...
04.15.2023

Making a Run for It

Establishing benchmarks, perhaps one of the most valuable, yet understated, services a surveyor performs, is a practice dating back to the 19th century. Its...
04.15.2023

Improbable Corners I Have Come to Know – Part 2

T3N, R3E, W.M.; Northeast Corner of Section 12, Clark County, WA One morning after arriving at work, “George” announced that he had been...
04.15.2023

Unsung Hero: The University of Oregon’s Astronomical Observatory & Samuel Stinson Gannett

When Eugene Skinner settled in the Willamette Valley in 1846 he was warned about the flooding of the Willamette River. The Kalapuya natives...
02.09.2023

Corner Crossing

In October of 2021 four hunters travelled down Rattlesnake Pass Road in Carbon County, Wyoming…
02.09.2023

The Big Sur(vey)

I know it sounds like the start an old Victorian Era novel, but it really was a cold, overcast morning, much like most...
02.09.2023

Improbable Corners I Have Come to Know

Most “older” surveyors have had the opportunity to search for corners set by the Deputy Surveyors hired by the General Land Office...
02.09.2023

Automated Monitoring Helps Keep Rail Transportation Project on Track

The Delaware Claymont Regional Transportation Center needed an upgrade to increase passenger safety, greater accessibility to the station...
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