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 Surveyors Educational Seminars (SES) was founded in 1995 by Dr. Ben Buckner as a private continuing education school for licensed surveyors, engineers, surveying and engineering technicians, attorneys, paralegals and others using or applying surveying and mapping services or related technologies and resources.   In addition to regular seminar tours, SES provides “in-house” training to a variety of groups in government, public and private sectors.  Many of these are by request and are  customized to meet the educational needs and demands of the organization.  

Don is President of Land and Boundary Consultants, Inc., based in southeastern New Hampshire, and has been in practice as a land boundary consultant since 1974 and has been surveing since 1962. Don is both a licensed land surveyor and professional forester. He has presented seminars on a variety of topics including description interpretation, boundary evidence, surveying law, and various aspects of forensic science.

Don is a member of, and has been active in, many surveying, mapping, and forestry organizations. He is past president of both the Maine Society of Land Surveyors and the New Hampshire Land Surveyors Association.

In addition to over 200 technical publications in several disciplines, Don has been involved with writing more than 50books. The 6th editions of Evidence & Procedures for Boundary Location  and its companion title, Boundary Control and Legal Principles, both of which he is a co-author, are the leading surveying textbooks. Two of his more recent publications, Interpreting Land Records and Forensic Procedures for Boundary & Title Investigation, are proving to be a favorite among attorneys, title examiners and surveyors.  He has written two other boundary-related texts as well as researched and compiled the subject matter for seven state boundary and surveying law books. 

Don is a former faculty member of the University of Maine where he taught surveying in the School of Forestry and the Department of Civil Engineering. He  is also a former faculty member at  the University of New Hampshire where he continues to teach courses for the UNH Professional Development & Training Program. He is a  member of the Professional Surveyor/Red Vector “Dream Team” providing on-line education for surveyors and related professionals. Presently this cooperative is offering twelve separate courses authored by Don with more currently being developed.

In addition to the writing and lecturing about surveying, Don is the fourth generation of a family that owned and operated the sporting camps, Wilson's on Moosehead Lake, for over 109 years. He is a registered Maine Guide, avid fly fisherman and has maintained an interest in the sporting and resort history of Maine.

Christine Wilson manages the program scheduling and the on-site registration. A title examiner for over 35 years, she has also trained title examiners for law offices.  Although she specializes in commercial and complex residential title examinations, she has also developed an expertise in researching boundaries, genealogies and parcel descriptions.