I was listening to Barry Lopez' "The Mappist" on Selected Shorts last night as I scribbled, snipped, and sketched away at my Restoration final project last night, and towards the end of the story the narrator mentions that his daughter wants to be an environmental historian, and he's hoping to hook her up with this badass map maker who goes around hand drawing maps of every possible cool thing, such as the location of temporary streams, populations of predator and prey species of a given area over time, sites of historical interest, the movement of water in cities municipal and otherwise. Both jobs would be pretty cool, really - drawing the maps or writing the historical interpretation. Pretty niche work of the sort Modern Technology has deprioritized, making it hard to make a living, but still, wouldn't that be great? Hiking around, monitoring bird species, getting a good feeling of the land, creating a magnum opus.
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