Surveying land is not just about property lines. For example, almost no construction projects can happen without a survey.

"Most people would attribute surveying to boundary surveying alone, which is doing property work, but there's way more to it as well. Pretty much anything that's ever been built [used surveying]," said SUNY ESF Ranger School Surveying Instructor Jeremy Thompson.

Right now, officials say there is a massive need for workers as people are retiring at a much faster rate than those coming in.

“There's so much work that is pushing projects back further and further, unfortunately,” Thompson said.

Hailey Marsh is a student at the SUNY ESF Ranger School in Wanakena, in the Adirondacks. It is one of only two brick-and-mortar schools in the state that offers surveying education.

“It just really interests me. As soon as I heard about it, I got hooked,” Marsh said.

“Over the last couple of years, we've seen an uptick in enrollment in our profession here at the Ranger school, which is a very promising thing,” Thompson said.

At the Ranger school, technology, math and science are taught in-depth.

“I tell the students early on that we're a combination of a mathematician, archeologist, part sociologist,” Thompson said.

“I think I've learned a lot about myself and work ethic through my time here and just trying to understand everything,” student Quinn Liberto said. “I think that part of it is really fulfilling, knowing that we're going to help someone."