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Volume 23: Issue 2 April, 2012 LL II NN EE SS & PP OO II NN TT SS www.plsw.org THE EQUALITY STATE SURVEYOR PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYORS OF WYOMING Lines & Points 1|Page April 2012 Volume 23: Issue 2 April, 2012 L I N E S & P O I N T S www.plsw.org S.W. Cornerstone of the 1870 GLO Survey of Cheyenne as perpetuated. President Cotton Jones, PLS (Photo By Jack Studley) THE EQUALITY STATE SURVEYOR On The Cover PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYORS OF WYOMING Vice-President Cevin Imus, PLS secretary/treasurer Marlowe Scherbel, PLS CONTENTS ~ Page 3 ~ PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE And Announcements Cotton Jones, PLS Area Governor ~ Page 4 ~ PLSW ANNUAL MEETING SYNOPSIS ~ Page 5 ~ THE PREXY PASTURE PARTY CHIEF Paul Reid, PLS By Mark Rehwaldt Wyoming Delegate ~ Page 6 ~ UW LAND SURVEYING ADVISORY BOARD MEETING~ MINUTES Lines & Points NCEES COMPUTER BASED TESTING UPDATE editoriaL committee ~ Page 7 ~ Committee Larry Perry, PLS ANOTHER TALE OF TWO CITIES Chair [email protected] PART III By: Jack Studley Editor Michael Flaim, PELS ~ Page 11 ~ in Chief [email protected] APPLICATION OF THE QUADRATIC Treasurer John “Jack” Studley, PLS FORMULA TO SURVEYING PROBLEMS [email protected] By: Herbert W. Stoughton ~ Page 15 ~ Circulation Joel Ebner, PLS ASPRS FELLOW AWARD [email protected] ~ Page 17 ~ Advertising Pete Hutchison, PELS FAREWELL TO FELLOW SURVEYORS [email protected] Mike Mickiewicz & Joseph Surenant Copy Herbert W. Stoughton, PhD, PELS, CP 2011 PLSW SUSTAINING MEMBERS Editor [email protected] •John Baffert - Surv-KAP, LLC •Cathy Fromma - Trimble Editor Steven “Dennis” Dawson, PLS •Richard Monsen - Monsen Engineering at Large [email protected] •Bryan Baker - Frontier Precision Inc. PLSW (Professional Land Surveyors of Wyoming) is a statewide Advertising Information organization of Registered Land Surveyors licensed to practice in the Equality State of Wyoming. PLSW is dedicated to improving Digital-ready, full-color advertising with payment should be the technical, legal, and business aspects of surveying in the State mailed to Lines & Points, P.O. Box 8, Cheyenne, WY 82003. of Wyoming. 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Page|2 Lines & Points PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE ANNOUNCEMENTS •The Wyoming Board of Registration is now offering Professional Land Surveyor candidates the opportunity to take the 2-hour State Specific Examination on a given day each month during the year. •The Bureau of Land Management respectfully requests that readers of the Manual of Surveying Instructions (2009) report any errors found. Email with the details to [email protected]. For information and to view postings of reported errata visit the BLM Manual website at: www.blmsurveymanual.org. •There are educational resources available at Spring greetings to you all! the NGS Online Learning Center with Online Modules, Presentations with Audio, and the As we put winter to bed and start to see the new buds on the trees the warmer weather brings the start Upcoming and Past Classes are at: of our busiest season. www.ngs.noaa.gov/corbin/online_learing.shtml Since the last column we have made it through •The NGS has announced that the CORS station Wyoming Engineering Convention in Sheridan. Our WYSH has now been added to the national attendance at the convention this year was strong, as network. This station is in Sheridan, WY. the weather cooperated and made travel easy. For those that couldn’t make it, we had two Special Guests •The BLM has completed a project to scan attend the Annual Meeting. They were Kim Leavitt, approximately 25,000 pages of field notes that P.L.S., National Society of Professional Surveyors had been transcribed. These pages are from field (NSPS) Area 7 Director and Dr. David Whitman, P.E., notes of GLO surveys that are nearly illegible. President of the Wyoming State Board. Each page is posted on the Cadastral Survey By the time this reaches all of you, National Surveyors website following the image of the original page. Week will have passed and I hope everyone was able to celebrate it in some way. •The 2012 Fall Technical Session speaker is The spring meetings for NSPS have been scheduled Herbert Stoughton, Geodetic Engineer. He will for May 4-6 in Charlotte, NC at the Charlotte Marriott be speaking on “Writing Legal Descriptions for Executive Park. The main topic will continue to be Parcels and Easements”, “Overview of Map the restructuring of ACSM and NSPS. As of now, the Projections Used by Surveyors” and “Early merger is still not quite complete due to some legal History of Public Domain”. We are looking issues. Those issues are just about worked out and I forward to another great session. hope to report the next time that the restructuring is complete. A key result of the process is an anticipated • T h e d a t e f o r 2 0 1 3 A n n u a l M e e t i n g i s drastic reduction in the amount of dues and hopes that 7 February 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at the Parkway we can get more surveyors to join. I will keep you Plaza in Casper, Wyoming. posted as the process proceeds. Well I guess that’s all for now and I look forward to a warm and profitable Spring. SE CHAPTER HAS LOGO Respectfully, MERCHANDISE AVAILABLE Cotton D. Jones, President CONTACT JACK STUDLY FOR DETAILS Professional Land Surveyors of Wyoming 3|Page April 2012 on the status of NSPS. Cotton Jones, NSPS Governor, 2012 ANNUAL MEETING reported that the merging of ACSM/NSPS is still in progress. PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYORS OF WYOMING Western Federation of Professional Surveyors: Paul Reid, Minutes Exerpts Delegate, gave a verbal report. 2 February 2012 Old Business: Location: Sheridan Holiday Inn, Sheridan, Wyoming Kevin Jones, representing the Northwest Chapter, discussed Number of Attendees: 47 the completion of the PLSW’s CD project. President Jones President Jones introduced two (2) guests: indicated National Surveyor’s Week is the third week of Kim Leavitt, NSPS Area 7 Director March each year. Dr. David Whitman, Chairman of the Wyoming State Board of Registration Citations and Awards: President Cotton Jones A Life Membership certificate presented to Lloyd Baker. PLSW membership includes a total of 274 Members and A Life Membership certificate for Paul N. Scherbel was Associates: 172 Members, 3 Life, 7 Honorary, 74 Associate, 6 accepted by his son, Marlowe. Special, 6 Student and 6 Sustaining. The plagues will be forwarded to the new Life Members as Treasurer’s Report was unanimously approved: soon as they are available. Bank account balances as of 31 December 2011: Election Results: Jeff Jones, Teller Checking Account $ 2,923.35 PLSW Officers for 2012 are Cotton Jones, President, Cevin Savings Account $ 11,054.82 Imus, Vice President and Marlowe Scherbel, Secretary/ Investments $ 110,833.75 Treasurer. There were 96 eligible voters with 30 valid Total cash $ 124,811.92 ballots received for all of the Officers. Each received 30 yes 2012 Budget was unanimously approved. votes and 0 no votes. Treasurer Scherbel reported the main reason for being over By-Laws Amendments: The report from the Teller indicated budget was due to an adjustment he made to cover the that the By-laws amendments did not pass. There were $5.00 per member annual contribution to the Scholarship 158 eligible voting members in 2011, with 66 votes cast Fund, which had not been made for the past 2-3 years. The and two (2) invalid ballots. This does not meet the By-laws adjustment was in the amount of $4,750. minimum requirement of a two-thirds vote. Results: Committee Reports: By-laws change ‘I’ received 63-yes; 2-no; 1 votes abstain. Audit - Finance: Kevin D. Jones, 2nd Past President, By-laws change ‘II’ had 64-yes; 2-no; and 0 votes abstain. reported his audit found the organization’s finances to By-laws change ‘III’ had 61-yes; 5-no; and 0 votes abstain. be in good shape. He recommended having a standard By-laws change ‘IV’ had 65-yes; 1-no; and 0 votes abstain. procedure and checklist for doing the audit. Kevin and By-laws change ‘V’ had 61-yes; 4-no; and 1 votes abstain. Marlowe will work to prepare an audit procedure. Upon further review of the By-laws during the History: Herb Stoughton, chairman, provided a verbal and subsequent BOD meeting, the Board re-read “Article XIII written report. The Board of Directors should decide how AMENDMENTS Section 1. Implementation” which state: to distribute the updated history. Possibly putting them on “These By-Laws maybe altered, amended, or repealed, the website. Herb is currently microfilming and arranging and new By-Laws be adopted by the affirmative vote of to digitize all volumes of Lines & Points. at least two-thirds of the Members, and Life Members of Investment Committee: Jon Anderson, chairman, provided the corporation voting.” (emphasis added).