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PLSO Issue 2, 2016 March/April

On February 10, PLSO members, Paul Landau, Brad Cross and Erik Carlson participated in the Career Day event at Hood River High School. Aer a slow start, curiosity got the best of of the students and we were able to reel them in as to just what they were looking at. A robotic total station, with stinger and controller. Watching the gun follow the stinger impressed all that chose to get a closer look. We handed out a fair amount of literature and hopefully planted some seeds for future surveyors. anks go out to Ray Grin and Aimee McAulie for helping facilitate the booth access. Speaking of the booth, its design totally impressed some of our On ursday, December 10, 2015, Bell Design Company of Bingen, WA, hosted “e (kind of) Annual Gorge Surveyors Gathering.” e gathering was well attended. Companies represented besides Bell Design included Tenneson Engineering, Wyeast Surveying, Terra Surveying, the USFS and Klein and Associates. Brad Cross, Hood River County Surveyor and Dan Boldt, Wasco County Surveyor conducted the meeting. Aer introductions and dinner, Brad and Dan went over each other’s contact information and oce hours and then discussed briey the new ling fee schedule for Wasco and Hood River counties. e duties of a County Surveyor were reviewed and a new checklist for Records of Survey and Plats was introduced. The Oregon Surveyor | Vol. 39, No. 2 16 NEWS BRTIEFXST News Briefs „ Paul Landau, PLS Hood River Valley High School Career Day The Gorge Surveyor’s Gathering Historic Highway Sculpture presenter neighbors, so we took some pictures. e bill to allow the County Surveyor to extend the deadline for indexing or correcting a survey was discussed. is is basically just a one word edit to ORS 209.250, from “must to may.” It seems appropriate as there are times in rural Oregon that 30 days is not enough time for various reasons. Both Dan and Brad were hopeful for easy passage. e omas Decision, a land-use opinion and order regarding legal lot determination in Wasco County was also discussed. Ben Beseda gave a status report on the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Urban Boundary Project. Overall, I think the 15 or so attendees had a great time. I know I did, and I got to meet some new faces in our surveying community, and that’s always a good thing. Back on October 22, 2015, Rip Caswell, a Troutdale sculptor who is working on a piece to honor Sam Hill and Sam Lancaster commemorating the centennial of the historic Columbia River scenic highway. Mr. Caswell contacted Aimee McAulie needing some advice on what type of surveying instruments might have been used during the layout of the highway. Aimee McAulie asked me to contact Mr. Caswell, so I did some research on what would have been the transit of choice in 1913–1914. I sent him some pictures and we talked about who else might have worked on the project. A little more digging revealed that an ODOT engineer by the name of John Elliot would have surveyed the portion of the scenic highway in Hood River County. I am thinking that the centennial celebration, which begins on June 7 with a rededication of the highway at Multnomah Falls and continues on to July 23 with the Troutdale “Summerfest,” might be a good opportunity for some PLSO outreach to the public! Mr. Caswell with his work in progress.


PLSO Issue 2, 2016 March/April
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