Not So Blue Blueprints

Blueprints are synonymous with design plans and directions on how to build something. It is used in motivational speeches titled something like “What’s the blueprint of your life?” The term is a common description for the directions in IKEA products and, of course, the original use still stands; a drawing for a house. Except blueprints…

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Surveying by the foot

This little marker is the gatekeeper to preserving the wilderness. It represents years of work and countless calculations to determine property lines and protect the Appalachian Trail. It is the evidence of a boundary survey that forever protects the Trail, exactly like a boundary survey protects your own property. But if you went out looking…