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Some months ago I was berated because I could not see the justification, especially for a CA surveyor, to spend thousands of dollars in time and fees to be a certified fed land surveyor.

I just read a article in The American Surveyor 2013 vol 10 no 4 titled The science of Chaos and it's application to surveying and have to wonder why any competent land surveyor would want to work under or near BLM direction.

I read the same article and there are too many negatives to respond to.

Sounded like to me a disgruntled former employee?

I had 31 years with BLM and damn proud of it.

Your ending statement does not speak well for your understanding of Land Surveying!

Keith Williams
Division of Cadastral Survey
Washington Office (ret)

Keithwill wrote:I read the same article and there are too many negatives to respond to.

Sounded like to me a disgruntled former employee?

I had 31 years with BLM and damn proud of it.

Your ending statement does not speak well for your understanding of Land Surveying!

Keith Williams
Division of Cadastral Survey
Washington Office (ret)

I read the article as well a while back. It smacked of someone who has an agenda against Federal Surveyors.

Frankly, in my 30+ years (27 private sector) of surveying, I have found far more private surveyors who have literally 'ignorant' the proper PLSS procedures, than Federal surveyors who have 'screwed the pooch' when dealing with patented lands adjoiners.

From what I read of this article, the writer does not have a clue about the legalities and procedures of BLM surveys/resurveys.

Sounded like a disgruntled GS-5 technician.