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Yes I agree with you, they are for the most part some of the most ethical professionals, right up there with doctors if you ask me. The problem I'm seeing is that technology, though making our job somewhat easier, has hurt the profession in some respects. How you might ask? Well here is a case in point. Before GPS we had to manually run section lines with traverses....and along the way we would pick up topo calls from the original field notes(cross a stream at so many chains) ect. Retracing a section line is an art.....looking for bearing trees ect. I learned so much from a retracement camp many years ago that I took in the Ocala National Forest with Mr. David Gibson and Mr. Walt Robillard, the things that I learned have been most valuable through the years. I still carry that note pad with me and I can not tell you how many old section corners I have found when other's just simply prorated and set a new one. But now.....The bidding is so tight everbody just "sets a pair" in the vicinity of the corner. And the art of section line retracement is going the way of the dinosaur. Is this a breach in ethics? You decide. I'm not subscribing to it however. If I can not get the money to do it right, someone else can have the job.