I live in a state (no – not the State of Confusion) that requires applicants to be “a graduate of a land-surveying curriculum…
Author: Carl C. de Baca, PS
05.20.2026
Bad Backsights: New Datum on the Horizon
I just got back from the Seven-State plus West Fed conference in sunny Las Vegas. Was it sunny? I don’t really know, I…
02.01.2026
Shinbok
In my first five years as a young surveyor, I had the privilege of working with a PLS who was maybe ten years…
02.01.2026
Communities Facing Disasters
Imagine, if you will, the effort it takes to rebuild an entire community, literally from the ground up, after a catastrophic event, such…
10.25.2025
Bad Backsights: It’s Only Money
Did you happen to read the editorial by Juan Plaza that NSPS helpfully linked on the Surveyor Says website? It is entitled Are…
08.13.2025
Licensing Boards
In the latest setback for the integrity of licensure and the protection of professions, some states are ‘streamlining’ their boards of regulation by…
05.11.2025
Making Do With Less?
Pundits have proclaimed for years that our society has peaked, and subsequent generations will have it harder than the one before. Everything is…
05.11.2025
Creation Myth
No offense to accountants but do you suppose that, at professional conferences attended by accountants, that a typical icebreaker goes, “So Bob, how…
03.06.2025
Terminus
Well, it is February, and like all of you, (suuure…), my thoughts go straight to the Roman god of boundaries and boundary markers….
03.06.2025
Rising From the Ashes
A power line fell early on the morning of Aug. 8, 2023, sparking a fire in overgrown brush near the edge of the historic…
