With modern technology, this backpack holds everything needed to conduct a remote survey.
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A BLM section corner that has been protected with a metal collar.
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Humboldt County is dotted with large redwood stumps. These trees were blazed as bearing trees by early GLO surveyors. Often it is only the stump that now remains. |
This section corner is monumented by a square concrete post, typical of the many monuments set by Joseph Shaw throughout Ferndale. |
A GPS receiver set on a NGS control point dutifully watched over by our survey dog, Riikka.
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As a surveyor, I tell myself, "I could go through this pasture, or I could go around it." Hmmm. I think I'll go around.
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Robotic surveying under a bridge.
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