Reading, Interpreting and Writing Land Descriptions Workshop
DISCLAIMER
Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
Learn more about the on-demand format in our FAQ or contact us at (715) 835-5900 or customerservice@halfmoonseminars.org
Agenda
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8:30 – 9:00 am CST
First Session
9:00 – 11:00 am CST
Break
11:00 – 11:30 am CST
Second Session
11:30 am – 1:30 pm CST
Break
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm CST
Third Session
2:00 – 4:00 pm CST
Presented by Barry Savage, PLS
Understanding The Survey Process
Research
– Title research vs. boundary research
Field work
– Reconnaissance
– Measuring angles and distances
– GPS
Understanding what controls location
– The importance of monuments and descriptions
– The primary function of measurements in descriptions
– Order of importance of conflicting elements
Understanding Survey Drawings and Legal Descriptions
North basis
Understanding bearings and azimuths
Title Identity
The importance of qualitative calls
Closing the description
Handling water boundary issues
Precision vs. accuracy
Handling special situations: arcs, chords, curves, etc.
Writing Metes and Bounds and Strip Descriptions
Easement basics
Preparing strip descriptions for routes
Do’s and don’ts when writing descriptions
Writing the qualitative portion first
Including measurements with survey precision in mind
Metes and bounds description workshop: writing two sample descriptions
Webinar Instructions
All attendees must log-on through their own email – attendees may not watch together if they wish to earn continuing education credit. HalfMoon Education Inc. must be able to prove attendance if either the attendee or HalfMoon Education Inc. is audited.
Certificates of completion can be downloaded in PDF form upon passing a short quiz. A link to the quiz will be sent to each qualifying attendee immediately after the webinar. The certificate can be downloaded from the Results page of the quiz upon scoring 80% or higher.
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Windows 7 – 10 or Mac OSX Mavericks (10.9) – macOS Catalina (10.15)
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Credits
Attorneys
6.0 Alabama CLE Hours
6.0 Georgia CLE Hours
7.0 New York CLE Hours
6.0 Tennessee CLE Hours
6.0 Vermont CLE Hours
Alabama Title
Insurance Producers
6.0 CE Hours
Professional Engineers &
Land Surveyors
6.0 PDHs
Continuing Education Credit Information
This course is open to the public. It is approved for attorneys licensed in Alabama, Georgia and
Tennessee.
HalfMoon Education Inc. is certified by the New York State CLE Board as an Accredited Provider
of CLE programs. This traditional format course offers 7.0 CLE hours, consisting 7.0 Areas of
Professional Practice hours, which are appropriate for experienced attorneys.
The Alabama Department of Insurance has approved this webinar for 6.0 general continuing
education hours for insurance producers, including title insurance producers.
This course offers 6.0 PDHs to professional in all states and land surveyors licensed in most states,
excluding Kansas, New Jersey, and Texas. This course is approved for Tennessee land surveyors.
Course completion certificates will be awarded to participants who complete the webinar in its
entirety, respond to all the verification prompts during the instruction, and earn a score of 80% on
the quiz that follows the instruction (multiple attempts allowed).
Speakers
Barry E. Savage, PLS
Survey Products Group Manager with Tennessee Valley Authority in Chattanooga, TNPrior to his service at TVA, Mr. Savage was in private survey practice for 10 years specializing in dispute resolution and expert witness services. He has surveyed several disputed state boundaries to resolve jurisdictional conflicts. Mr. Savage is an adjunct professor at Cleveland State Community College where he teaches courses in boundary law, geodesy, GIS, and surveying fundamentals. He has researched and retraced the historical surveys of Henry David Thoreau and has published several articles on the subject. Mr. Savage teaches exam review and continuing education seminars at various state and local conferences across the country.
