Kirtland Air Force Base (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text John A. Evaskovich. Deni J. Seymour.

Mariah Associates, Inc. completed a Class III Cultural Resource Inventory for a gravel quarry located on Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The survey was requested by Wayne Frasier of Mountain States Constructors, Inc. The project encompassed an 18.5 acre area for the quarry and related facilities, and a surrounding buffer zone of 35.5 acres for future expansion. In all, approximately 54 acres were surveyed. Ten isolated occurrences and a single archaeological site were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

An archaeological survey of 56.7 acres of property situated within Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), Bernalillo County, New Mexico, yielded no significant cultural resources. No significant cultural resource sites were located during the pedestrian survey. The results of this survey concurs with a previous cultural resource inventory conducted for Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) Management Area B, which included this proposed permit area. This previous survey located no significant archaeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

An archaeological survey of approximately 6.4 acres of property situated within Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), Bernalillo County, New Mexico, yielded no significant cultural resources. The survey was conducted antecedent to continued use of Sandia National Laboratories Video Technology Laboratory (VTL) Facility. The permit area has been extensively disturbed by previous construction and use of the area over the past several years. Primarily due to this previous disturbance and the fact that...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

An archaeological survey of approximately 65 acres of property situated within Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), Bernalillo County, New Mexico, yielded no significant cultural resources. The area has been extensively disturbed by use of the area over the past twenty to thirty years. In part due to this previous disturbance and the fact that much of the area is situated within the valley drainage bottom and within the floodplain, no significant cultural resource sites were located. The results of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

An archaeological survey of approximately 9. 5 acres of property situated within Area I, Sandia National Laboratories, Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, yielded no cultural resources. The area surveyed is located on the western piedmont of the Manzano Mountains, south of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The survey was conducted for a new fill area site and associated haul route. Remains of a partially dismantled and fairly deteriorated centrifuge facility site is located within the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ted M. Payne.

In 1982, Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. conducted an on-ground prehistoric and historical archaeological cultural resources survey within the Madera Canyon and Archeological Area IV Project Areas on Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. A total of 18 cultural resources were located. Sixteen of these sites were affiliated with Amerindian cultures spanning the early Archaic through the Historic periods. The remaining two sites consisted of a probable historic mine shaft and the second...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ted M. Payne.

In 1982, Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. conducted an on-ground prehistoric and historical archaeological cultural resources survey within the Madera Canyon and Archeological Area IV Project Areas on Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. A total of 18 cultural resources were located. Sixteen of these sites were affiliated with American Indian cultures spanning the early Archaic through the Historic periods. The remaining two sites consisted of a probable historic mine shaft and the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John S. Hayden.

This report documents the performance and findings of an archaeological survey conducted on approximately 7.6 acres of the Sandia Ranger District. This survey revisited the AR 03-03-05-167 and found that there were no conflicts with the proposed project

DOCUMENT Full-Text John S. Hayden.

This report documents the performance and findings of an archaeological survey conducted on approximately 7.6 acres of the Sandia Ranger District. A constructed feature, AR 03-03-05-167, composed of arranged rock and dirt fill was located in the area of the planned change in road alignment. This feature is very likely to have served as a check dam. Due to the lack of any cultural material onsite or other kinds of cultural resource sites within the vicinity, no cultural affiliation,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia B. Benedict.

Prior to the construction of fire management activities at Kirtland Air Force Base, the Cibola National Forest undertook a survey for cultural resources in the proposed area of impact. The surveyors determined that the sites be treated as eligible until further study could be conducted.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

An archaeological survey of approximately 20. 6 acres situated within two tracts of land, yielded no significant cultural resources. A small portion of the northeast corner of Tract One (approx. 0.46 acres) was previously surveyed by the Center of Anthropological Studies (Franklin and Neal 1981). No cultural resources were located within Tract One during this previous inventory. The current inventory resulted in the recordation of nine isolated occurrences (IOs), one in Tract One (IO #1) and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joan Wilkes.

A survey was done on 5 acres of Sandia District of the Cibola National Forest for a project involving closing a road to an area which has been used for target practice. It is trashed and worn and will be rehabilitated by cleaning (broken glass in particular) and mulching and planting grass. In addition a small parking lot will be constructed just off the highway for recreation users of the area (not including shooting, since this activity is now prohibited on the Sandia District). Heavy...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John S. Hayden.

This report documents the performance and findings of a cultural resources survey for a proposed installation, use, and maintenance of two aerial cables and associated winch and anchor points on the Cibola National Forest covering approximately one acre. The project is situated in Sections 19, 20, and 21 within the Military Withdrawal for Sandia National Laboratories. Thorough survey of the areas failed to reveal any evidence of cultural resources.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John S. Hayden.

A cultural resources survey was done on 0.16 acres for a road and laser tracker pad within PLO 995 in Sol se Mete Canyon on the Sandia Ranger District of the Cibola National Forest. No evidence of archeological activity was found. Cultural resources clearance is recommended.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Hayden.

This report documents the performance and findings of a cultural resource survey for a project involving digging fox holes for military training maneuvers on Kirtland Air Force Base. No evidence of cultural resources were found.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

A cultural resource survey of approximately 13.3 acres of property situated within Cibola National Forest withdrawn lands, Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), Bernalillo County, New Mexico, was recently completed at two locales proposed for geophysical test alignments. The surveys resulted in the recordation of five isolated occurrences (IOs). These isolated occurrences are no longer thought to be potentially significant as all important information has been recovered through field recordation. For...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland. Robert Dello-Russo.

Butler Service Group Inc. (BSG) conducted cultural resource surveys for approximately 27.65 acres of property situated within Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The areas surveyed include the nine drill locales with buffer zones and an access route. Paved or dirt roads provide access into all but one of the drill site buffer zones. The two-track road providing access into the remaining drill site, Arroyo Confluence South (ACS), was surveyed. One previously documented...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John S. Hayden.

It was determined that a portion of subject project was not in compliance. Clearance had been obtained previously for the High Energy Research and Technology Facility (HERTF) Site proper. However, the Department of Defense (DOD) constructed the 46KV powerline prior to obtaining clearance. Areas involved in the powerline construction and access were systematically walked and visually inspected. Alignments were considered to be approximately 50 feet wide and were surveyed in strips 15-20 apart....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Neel Marsh. LuAnn Wandsnider.

This report documents the performance and findings of a cultural resource survey for a project involving expansion of the Transportation Safeguard Academy located on withdrawn National Forest land. One isolated artifact was found. No other cultural remains were located. Cultural resources clearance is recommended.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joan Wilkes.

This report covers the results of a survey prior to the live fire range expansion. Six sites and several isolated finds were found. Three of the sites were determined to require fencing off while all of the sites were flagged for avoidance.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Sullivan. Ethan A. Giedraitis. Allan J. Schilz. Richard Burleson.

Table 1: List of 497 isolates found during survey.

DOCUMENT Full-Text James D. Gallison. Michael H. Jennings. Christine Hajek.

This report presents the results of field investigations of site LA 153888 (AR 05-855) at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) in the Manzanita Mountains on lands withdrawn from the Cibola National Forest and managed by the Department of Defense (DoD). The site was investigated to learn the extent of the damage from the skid trails and to determine the best method for protecting the site from further erosion. Surface collection and testing yielded 255 stone artifacts that included 239 biface...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James Gallison. David Wilcox. Roberto Herrera.

From 3 June to 1 November 2002, engineering-environment Management, Inc., (e2M), under contract with Kirtland Air Force Base conducted a Section 110 Cultural Resources Investigation of 6,000 acres of US Forest Service lands withdrawn to Kirtland Air Force Base (4,850 ac) and the Department of Energy (1,150 ac) located in the Manzanita Mountains of New Mexico. There are nine previously recorded sites in the project area. The New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office determined that two of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen Van Citters.

Hangars 481 and 482 were evaluated using the National Register of Historic Places criteria for eligibility, appropriate historic contexts, drawings, photographs, and site visits. The structures were determined to be two of the select structures constructed toward the end of World War II and associated with the B-29 role in the final incendiary raids that devastated Japan before and after the atomic bomb was dropped. Although the structures were associated with this important period in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas B. Hanson. Dorothy L. Larson. Peter J. McKenna. Stefanie Tschaikowsky. Albert E. Ward.

The investigations and data described for the Two Dead Juniper Village (LA 87432/AR-03-03-05-740) in the following document span a 24 year period beginning in 1981. During this time many personnel and administrative changes were made to the archaeological team. As such, this final document represents pieces of work from many different investigators, who participated at different times during the undertaking. Unfortunately, neither Albert Ward nor any members of his team at the Center for...