Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a concurrence letter from the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) for the Section 110 National Register eligibility evaluation of the Lompoc Landing Site. The Office of Historic Preservation (OHP) concurs with Vandenberg Space Force Base's (VSFB) determination regarding the eligibility of the Lompoc Landing Site. The SHPO office concurs that the 2022 evaluation of the site demonstrates that the property no longer retains sufficient historic integrity for National Register...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) regarding the Santa Ynez Ridge Road Repairs project. The letter briefly reiterates the project activities associated with the project and the cultural resource effort that was performed in support of the Section 106 process. It specifically provides concurrence for the project Area of Potential Effect and the project finding of no historic properties affected.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Gualtieri.

This document is a Section 106 letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) continuing consultation for the Small ICBM Project and Determination of NRHP Eligibility for San Antonio Terrace Archaeological District (SATAD). The letter concurs that the delineation of the area of potential effect is adequate for the project. It then proceeds to inform that Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) that the evaluation of the SATAD is very brief and continues by providing several...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) in response to the submission of a determination of eligibility for the Chute Landing on Vandenberg Space Force Base. The letter provides SHPO concurrence for the determination that Chute Landing is not eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under any of the Criteria. Specifically, it reiterates that the data potential of the site has been exhausted and is not eligible under Criterion D.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a letter from the California State Historic Preservation Officer regarding the Section 110 evaluation of the Hansen Homestead (CA-SBA-676/H). The letter provides SHPO concurrence for the determination that the archaeological site is not eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under any of the Criterion.

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,...

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Timothy J. Murphy IV. Sarah Nicchitta. Reilly Murphy.

This document is a report documenting the FY15 site condition assessments in Zones 4 and 5, using the previous systems setup by Applied EarthWorks, Inc. The condition assessments effort was split between CH2M HILL (CH2M) and Albion Environmental, Inc. (Albion) in the interest of completing work within the period of performance. Sites in Zones 4 were assessed by CH2M and sites in Zone 5 were assessed by Albion. This report documents the results from the condition assessments and provides a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Timothy J. Murphy IV.

This document is a report documenting the condition assessments of sensitive and threatened sites on Vandenberg AFB using the new approach. FY15 is the seventh evaluation of sensitive and threatened sites using the approach developed in 2009 (Lebow and Mirrow 2009a; Lebow and Mirrow 2009b). In addition to this report, a site condition geodatabase and digital photographs were submitted to 30 CES/CEANC.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Josh Smallwood. Christopher Ryan.

This document is a government generated Section 106 report consisting of a historic property inventory and an assessment of adverse effects associated with the Outdoor Recreation Cabins Project. The purpose of the document is to compile any prior or current studies performed in support of the Outdoor Recreation Cabins project as a single Section 106 report. This report provides the information needed by the California State Historic Preservation Officer to concur on the project findings and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Eric S. Nocerino. Clayton G. Lebow. Nathan T. Cruz.

This document is an Assessment of Archaeological Site Conditions on Vandenberg Air Force Base for the Fiscal Years of 2019 for Zones 1 and 2. This report documents site conditions in Zones 1 and 2. Applied EarthWorks archaeologists examine sites in both subzones in each zone. The scope of work calls for preparing updated site records for all sites with boundary changes. Those updates were completed for 41 sites; the updated records, including maps, are included in Appendix B. 404 sites are...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chris Patrick.

This document is a report on the Radiocarbon Dating Results. The Conventional Radiocarbon Ages have all been corrected for total fractionation effects and where applicable, calibration was performed using 2020 calibration databases. Four samples were sent to the lab and tested. Results are in the associated report in the form of calibrated date graphs.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roscoe Loetzerich.

This document is a Historical Properties Inventory Report on the Project to Replace the B4 Power line. The proposed Project will remove and replace approximately 4,800 linear feet of the B4 overhead feeder line that is a part of the 12kV distribution system. Vandenberg Space Force Base is seeking State Historic Preservation Office concurrence that 1) the Area of Potential Effect is adequately delineated, and 2) the effort to identify historic properties and the result that no historic properties...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Blackwell. Christopher Ryan.

This document is an Archaeological Resources Supplemental Report on Phase II of the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) Test Program. The project involves Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) to take part in developing and testing a new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) system, which will involve utilizing and modifying existing ICBM structures on VSFB. VSFB determined that the GBSD Test Program will result in no adverse effects to archaeological and historic properties for Phase II.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roscoe Loetzerich.

This document is a report Identifying the Historic Properties and Assessment of Effected for the American Water Grubbing and Vegetation Removal behind Building 856 Project. The grubbing activity has the potential to uproot vegetation and therefore cause subsurface disturbance. Three sites were found to be within the survey area; CA-SBA-923, CA-SBA-2952, and CA-SBA-3107H. Vandenberg Space Force Base is seeking State Historic Preservation Office concurrence that 1) the area of direct impact was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert Newcomb.

This document is a letter reporting the results of an Archaeological Study Supporting the Repair of Two Culverts on Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB). The project will entail reinforcing the existing culvert structures that serve to divert storm runoff under the access roads. On October 8, 2021, Applied EarthWorks’ field supervisor and two field technicians conducted a pedestrian survey and excavated 11 shovel test pits to assess whether surface or subsurface archaeological deposits exist...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alison Bryson-Deveraux.

This document is an Archaeological Monitoring report for the Coast Road Culvert Repair Project. The work scope entailed grubbing along a pre-existing, west to east, and north to south trending graded and partially paved access road. The access road entrance begins east of the Coast Road access, and continues south approximately 180 yards down to an unnamed seasonal creek and the culvert basin. One small black banded Monterey chert (1.5”) flake/possible modified flake tool as well as a possible...