What
An 8 hour TBPLS approved seminar hosted by the Surveying program at Lone Star College-Montgomery and titled “Boundary Retracement & Water Boundaries” by Darrell Shine and Nedra Foster
When
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Where
Lone Star College-Montgomery, Conroe, Texas
Cost
Registration for the December 10th Seminar at Lone Star College is now closed. Thank you.
Seminar Abstract
An action packed day of continuing education ranging across the state and around the boundaries of the Great State of Texas. Darrell Shine has been in private survey practice for more than fifty years, and Nedra Foster has worked with him for about thirty of those years. They are both Licensed State Land Surveyors and work across the state performing boundary surveys and surveys of watercourses.
The beginning point for almost any survey project is the records out of the General Land Office. Through glimpses of several survey projects, they will demonstrate the use of these records in actual day-to-day surveying. This will include the famous short, "Piney Pineknot." Suggestions on how to organize the original grant information and then correlate it to subsequent deed information. Searching for field evidence. Culminating with weighing and evaluating the found evidence in light of the record documents. When is it necessary to write a report explaining your construction? What should be included?
Discussion will also feature water boundaries – factors that must be given consideration whether the watercourse is the boundary or runs through your project area.
Darrell Shine, RPLS/LSLS
"I think the surveying profession is one of the most interesting and exciting professions a person could choose today. After 60 years of surveying I look forward to going to work every day." Regarded as the authority on water boundaries in Texas, Darrell has surveyed hundreds of miles of gradient boundary surveys along rivers and streams, and when he hasn’t been strumming on his banjo, has surveyed nearly a million forest acres in Southeast Texas, more than 100,000 acres of marshland and coastal prairie, approximately 240,000 acres in the Texas Panhandle, 110,000 acres in South Texas, and provided surveying consulting services on 60,000 acres in far West Texas, as well as 400,000 acres along Laguna Madre and Baffin Bay in Kenedy County.
In May 1987 Darrell was named as the recipient of the Conrad Blucher Chair for Excellence in Surveying. He also has been commissioned by TAMUCC to author a book entitled Inland and Coastal Waters of Texas and Their Boundaries. During his career he has been an instructor for various surveying courses at Texas A & M University and Lamar University as well as steadily conducting seminars across Texas. Darrell has long been a proponent of "surveyors helping surveyors" and to this end has dedicated revenue from seminars presented by him to helping aspiring young surveyors to attend.
Nedra Foster, RPLS/LSLS
“Working as a woman in a male dominated profession, I have never been made to feel unwelcome - quite the contrary. The men I work with always hold the barbed wire fence so I can get over!”
Currently serving as President of Shine & Associates, Nedra was recently appointed by Governor Rick Perry to Chair the Texas Board of Professional Land Surveying. Her career to date has culminated in extensive experience with water boundaries, having worked on more than twenty inland rivers across Texas and performing approximately 200 miles of gradient boundary surveying, as well as having worked on more than two dozen coastal boundary survey projects. Her published works for Professional Surveyor magazine include the article “Spindletop – 100 Years Later” concerning re-location of the site that ushered in the oil boom for the entire country, and “In the Heart of the Big Thicket,” an article covering a National Park Service project of surveying 159 miles of gradient boundary on Big Sandy and Village Creek.