Surveyors know that an easement is a right to use someone else’s property for some specific purpose. The property that is being used…
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02.01.2026
A Condition of Life at Every Scale
States have the right to regulate migration flows and to defend their own frontiers, always guaranteeing the respect due to the dignity of…
10.25.2025
The Age of Disbelief
We are entering into a time when we will have trouble believing our lying eyes. So far, AI appears to be mostly used…
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…
10.25.2025
Vantage Point: Stepping Up to Fill the Gaps
This is not the article I had intended to write for this issue. But I can no longer restrain my frustration with what…
08.13.2025
What’s Your Story?
Several years ago, Angus Stocking wrote the following: We are working in hills above the Pacific Ocean, retracing GLO corners set more than…
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…
08.13.2025
Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander
Architect, General Contractor, & Spiritual Teacher
Several times in previous columns (e.g. The Noblest of Trades, 09.24.2022) I have tried to express, probably too pompously, that land surveying (and…
08.13.2025
Vantage Point: Writing for the Masses
Much of what surveyors say, do, and write is beyond the simple comprehension of non-surveyors. Our specialized knowledge can be even harder to…
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…
