Tag Archives: Public Land Survey System

Senators Reintroduce Federal Land Asset (FLAIR ACT) Bill

Two senators have reintroduced the Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform (FLAIR) Act, a bipartisan bill to create a single database for lands owned by the federal government. “We cannot expect the federal government to properly manage our public lands if it cannot fully account for what it owns,” said U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a...

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Surveying States: Different, Yet the Same

With the President’s Day holiday recently behind us, a day I refer to as Surveyor’s Day (think Mt. Rushmore) and National Surveyors Week starting on March 18, 2017, I can’t help but think about surveyors across the United States as a whole. Although my entire professional practice has been in California, over those years I have...