Marc Cheves

Marc Cheves began surveying in 1963, became licensed in 1984 and has been a magazine editor for the past 21 years. Marc was the editor of Professional Surveyor for eight years and has been the editor/owner of The American Surveyor for 13 years.

Articles by Marc Cheves

• Building America

  Wednesday, January 03, 2018

  ​During a downturn in the early 1990s, I had to lay off an excellent career instrument man. He was one of many who were shown the door in that dark time. But what made it even worse for this particular individual was the fact that it was the second time the company had laid him off. The first was after another earlier downturn.

• The importance of narratives

  Wednesday, August 30, 2017

  No, not the kind that fill our news nowadays. The kind I believe surveyors should be preparing. Carl Clinton, a former county surveyor in Oregon, ​makes an eloquent case for why we should be leaving a written record of our surveys. Like Clinton, I have long felt that narratives should be a requirement of almost any survey.

• Please, not another boom

  Monday, December 05, 2016

  Excitement is growing for the new year. Regardless of where you stand politically, there is new-found hope that progress with much needed infrastructure spending and the expansion of small business-friendly policies in Washington will support renewed vitality in the land surveying sector. These issues effect the lion's share of our readership.