Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Gualtieri.

This document is a Section 106 letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) to Vandenberg Air Force Base (Vandenberg AFB) regarding the Construction of a Waste Water Treatment Plant at the Vandenberg Tracking Station. This letter is in response to a request for review of documentation provided to the SHPO by Vandenberg AFB, including a report by Sarah H. Berry (September 1990), entitled Waste Water Treatment Plant Archaeological Testing for Effects at SBA-793, Vandenberg...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a Section 106 letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office related to the Vegetation Removal for Maintenance of Sewer Line Behind Building 856 Project. The letter provides concurrence for 1) the United States Air Force's delineation of the Area of Potential Effect, 2) the proposal to assume CA-SBA-923 and CA-SBA-3107H as eligible to the National Register for this undertaking only, and 3) the project finding of no adverse effect to historic properties is...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) to Vandenberg Space Force Base regarding the Facility 1810 Sewer Replacement project. The letter provides concurrence for 1) the project Area of Potential Effect, 2) the treatment of archaeological site CA-SBA-1060 as eligible for the National Register for this project only, and lastly, 3) that the project finding of no adverse effect to historic properties is appropriate.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a letter from the California Office of Historic Preservation for the Pacific Gas and Electric (PGE) replacement of 7 power poles on the Divide power line on Vandenberg Space Force Base. The letter provides concurrence from the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) for the delineation of the project area of potential effect (APE) as well as the project finding of no historic properties affected.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Foley C. Benson.

This document is a report that details the archaeological survey of Sudden Flats and associated canyons. The reconaissance survey represented the beginning of a larger project to be conducted at a future date. The project was completed during the month of August, 1969 and consisted of 1. Determination of size and location of shell middens and other cultural materials in the survey area; 2. Determination and classification of the ecological aspects of the survey area; 3. Minor surface collection...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne.

This document is a report that summarizes activities carried out on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, during the summer of 1969, under a Federal Antiquities Act Permit issued to Dr. Claude N. Warren of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara by the National Park Service as part of early inventory efforts at VAFB. Goals included locating archaeological sites between Shuman Canyon and Pt. Sal in the north and Sudden Flats in the south and filling out...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Hector Neff.

This document is a report that deals with the results of a cultural resources survey undertaken by personnel of the Office of Public Archaeology (OPA), Social Process Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, on Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) during June, 1982. A total of twenty archaeological sites was examined and evaluated during Phase I of the Fuels Management Program Survey at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, including seven new sites (CA-SBa-1738, 1739, 1740,...

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This document is an appendix for the No Effects determination for Gaseous Nitrogen Pipeline Project. This literature search of historical records dealing with post-European contact was made to clarify the nature of historical components of sites discovered by archaeological survey teams in the subject project area. Archaeological sites adjacent and near the pipeline corridor north of Honda Creek and south of Spring Canyon displayed Anglo artifacts. This research attempts to provide a historical...

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This document is a Section 106 report that addresses the potential for effects to significant archaeological and/or historical properties as a result of the construction of a gaseous nitrogen (GN2) pipeline which requires the excavation of a 1 foot wide trench 3-5 feet deep and will generally occur within 10 feet of existing roadways. During the cultural resource inventory and subsurface testing projects, 10 sites, five prehistoric, two historic, and three multi-component resources, were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Clayton G. Lebow. Jill A. Onken. Carole A. Denardo. Douglas R. Harro. Rebecca L. McKim. Joyce L. Gerber.

This document is a report that presents the National Register of Historic Places evaluation and effects determination for a project involving archaeological site CA-SBA-740 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California. This study was performed in support of the installation of a retaining wall along Point Sal Road. Altogether, 15 shovel test pits, 1 column sample, and 4 test excavations units were used to gather data for site evaluation, resulting in a total excavated volume...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas R. Harro. Clayton G. Lebow. Rebecca L. McKim. Christopher Ryan. Carole A. Denardo.

This document is a report detailing archaeological investigations at CA-SBA-935, -2321, and -2345 that were prompted by proposed repairs to a road that cuts through these sites. The intent of this study is to define site boundaries, evaluate significance, and assess potential effects from the road repairs. Testing at CA-SBA-935 included 197 shovel test pits and 14 test excavation units, as well as 9 surface-collected artifacts. Four spatially distinct artifact concentrations were identified....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles M. Hodges. Clayton G. Lebow. Rebecca L. McKim.

This document is a report detailing an archaeological investigation completed on Vandenberg Space Force Base following two wildfires (Azalea and Halloween wildfires). This effort included a records and literature search at the base and at the Central Coast Information Center of the California Historical Resource Information System at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB); a pedestrian survey of the burned areas; documentation of all previously unknown sites; inspection of previously...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Clayton G. Lebow.

This report documents the condition of sensitive and threatened cultural resources examined during the third quarter of FY2000. Chapter 1 of this report lists the sites examined and briefly describes methods specific to the inspection of sensitive and threatened sites. The condition of sensitive and threatened cultural resources is summarized in Chapter 2. Recommendations for the inspected sites are included in Chapter 3, and Chapter 4 summarizes the results. Chapter 5 is a list of references...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Clayton G. Lebow.

This document is a report that presents the results of archaeological site condition assessments in Zone 3 on Vandenberg Air Force Base during Fiscal Year 2000. Chapter 1 describes the zone and lists the sites that were examined. Methods used during field work are briefly described in Chapter 2. Results of condition assessments are reported in Chapter 3, and detailed management recommendations are included in Chapter 4. Conditions and management recommendations for all examined resources are...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles M. Hodges. Clayton G. Lebow.

This document is a report that presents the results of an archaeological investigation for the North Vandenberg, Lions Head, and CITS Fiber-Optic Cable Systems Project on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Limited testing at 12 archaeological sites within the project area found no intact cultural deposits, although artifacts were found at 6 of the sites in disturbed contexts. More extensive testing was carried out at CA-SBA-3036 to evaluate the site for the National Register of Historic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Clayton G. Lebow. Douglas R. Harro. Rebecca L. McKim. Carole A. Denardo. Jill A. Onken.

This document is a report that describes excavation and stabilization efforts at Swordfish Cave (CA-SBA-503), a rock art site on Vandenberg Space Force Base. Chapter 1 is an introduction that summaries previous work at the site and outlines the scope of work. Chapter 2 provides a context for site interpretations by summarizing the area's natural and cultural setting. The research design prepared and approved prior to field work is included in Chapter 3. Methods used for both the archaeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carole A. Denardo. Clayton G. Lebow.

This document is a report that includes an inventory of isolated artifacts on Vandenberg Air Force Base and an associated database incorporated into GIS. This list and database serve as a comprehensive review of all sources of isolate data at the 30th Civil Engineering Squadron, Environmental Flight Cultural Resources Section (30 CES/CEVPC), including the existing GIS, multiple sets of site location base maps, existing isolate records and cultural resource field forms, cultural resource reports,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Clayton G. Lebow.

This document is a report that describes stabilization measures implemented at four sites on Vandenberg Space Force Base. Chapter 1 summarizes the scope of work. Stabilization methods common to all sites are described in Chapter 2; site-specific stabilization measures are documented in Chapter 3. The stabilization effort is summarized and assessed in Chapter 4. Updated site records are included in Appendix A (CA-SBA-908), Appendix B (CA-SBA-1040), Appendix C (CA-SBA-1135), and Appendix D...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Clayton G. Lebow.

This document is a report that describes the procedures and results of compiling a collection of radiocarbon data from archaeological sites on Vandenberg Air Force Base. Chapter 1 introduces the project and Chapter 2 describes procedures used to collect additional radiocarbon data. Results of the radiocarbon analysis are presented in Chapter 3 and the radiocarbon database itself is summarized in Chapter 4. A printout of the comprehensive radiocarbon database is attached as Appendix A;...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert O. Gibson. Jeff A. Parsons.

This document addresses the potential for effects to occur to significant historic properties as a result of a proposal to channel storm water from the Providence Landing Project onto and across the Antennae Farm on Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, CA.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rick Bury. Antoinette Padgett. Dan Reeves.

This document is a report documenting field investigations of the eight identified rock art sites on the base, including condition assessment and management recommendations for each site, developed in partnership with the Santa Ynez Chumash Tribal Elders Council. The report also contains recommendations for the identification and protection of rock art sites, base-wide.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Clayton G. Lebow. Douglas R. Harro.

This document is a report that documents the excavation of two test units at archaeological sites CA-SBA-1013 and CA-SBA-3615 on Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB). During September 2000, approximately 9,000 acres on VAFB were burned in the Harris Wildfire. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) utility poles damaged during the fire had to be replaced in order to provide the U.S. Air Force with continued support. Background research and an archaeological survey of the transmission line...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Clayton G. Lebow. Dina M. Ryan.

This document is a report for Vandenberg Air Force Base pertaining to a Section 110 inventory specifically focused on sea cliff and erosional cut banks that were not the focus of the base-wide survey completed in the 1990s. It was a required deliverable that documents Æ’s archaeological survey of the coastline and waterways as specified in the scope of work. Following the introduction, Chapter 2 synthesizes the natural and cultural setting of Vandenberg AFB. Chapter 3 discusses survey methods,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rick Bury. Antoinette Padgett. Dan Reeves.

This document is a report that presents the findings, actions, and recommendations developed in a year of monitoring and maintenance at 14 sensitive rock art sites at Vandenberg Air Force Base, from June 16, 2008 to June 2009. The report continues the rock art monitoring program established in 1997. The report details the ongoing assessment of the rock art condition at each archaeological site and makes recommendations for preserving the sites where appropriate. This program is instrumental in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James Carucci. Christopher Ryan.

This document is the Historic Properties Identification and Assessment of Adverse Effects at the Demolition of four Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Launch Facilities (LF) in Support of New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). The Area of Potential Effect was delineated to encompass all foreseeable project-related, ground-disturbing activities. Four underground missile silos at Vandenberg Air Force Base, no longer needed for ICBM test launches, will be rendered inoperable by...