A few weeks after closing the deal, he started drawing up a restoration plan with his architect, James Thompson, and about 20 consultants, including a zoologist, an entomologist, a biologist, a geologist, a hydrogeologist and a historian, who began to examine the island like a layer cake.
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Johnson's companion, Steve Mabee, a hydrogeologist from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, removes his bush hat to wipe away sweat as he gazes in wonder at the enormous trapezoid, one of more than 1, 000 enigmatic ground drawings that cover 400 square miles of the bone-dry and sparsely populated Nasca region near Peru's southern coast.
