Consultation (Investigation Type)

An activity that involves discussions and meetings with communities, stakeholders, and other interested parties for the purpose of describing proposed archaeological activities and eliciting their comments, perspectives and feedback.

551-569 (569 Records)

USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Form: Prescribed Burning and Fuelwood Sale Project in the Manzanita Mountains Phase 2 (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Benedict. Jeanine A. Derby. Eric Petersen.

USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Form for a survey in support of a prescribed burn, the Prescribed Burning and Fuelwood Sale Project in the Manzanita Mountains Phase 2. New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) concurrence is also included.


USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Form: Proposed Road Rehabilitation and Obliteration on the Military Withdrawal for the Ecosystem Management Plan Phase 5 (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Benedict.

USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Form for a survey in support of an Ecosystem Management Plan. New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) concurrence is also included.


USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Form: Report 1998-03-062 Archaeological Survey of 2,070 Acres for the Armijo and David Canyon Prescribed Burns Cibola National Forest, Bernalillo County, New Mexico (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey L. Fredine. Robert Wick.

Archaeologists with Lone Mountain Archaeological Services, Inc. conducted a Class III Cultural Resource Survey on November 23 and 24, 1997, and April 20 through May 18, 1998 for the Cibola National Forest (NMCRIS # 60888). The survey was conducted as part of a proposed prescribed burn. This project area consists of two blocks within the Sandia Ranger District of the Cibola National Forest and totals 2,070 acres. Twenty-seven sites and 82 isolated occurrences were recorded during the survey....


USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Form: Trails, Fuels, Habitat, Recreation, and Roads Project in the Manzanita Mountains Phase 4 (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Buttery Benedict.

USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Form and Cultural Resource Report in support of an Ecosystem Management Plan at Kirtland Air Force Base. New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) concurrence is also included.


USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Heritage Resource Survey/Literature Search - No Sites Form: Prescribed Burn Rifle Range #2 (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Benedict. Jeanine A. Derby.

USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Heritage Resource Survey/Literature Search - No Sites Form in support of a prescribed burn of Rifle Range #2 at Kirtland Air Force Base. An intensive survey of the 3 area parcel was conducted. Parallel pedestrian transects were walked, spaced no more than 15m apart. No heritage sites were recorded within 1/4 mile of the project area. New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) concurrence is included.


VAFB-2008-11: Report of Pre-Repatriation Inventory of Human Remains and Associated Materials from VAFB Sites Curated at the UC Santa Barbara Repository Ossuary (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann M. Munns.

This document is a report on the Pre-Repatriation Inventory of Human Remains and Associated Materials from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) Sites, currently curated at the UC Santa Barbara Ossuary. The purpose of this project is to document the collections from VAFB archaeological sites that include human remains, and repatriate them to Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians (SYBCI). As part of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, in 1995, the Repository completed an inventory...


VAFB-2010-06: Rock Art Monitoring and Maintenance Reports Oct 2009 - July 2010 (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Rick Bury. Antoinette Padgett. Dan Reeves.

This document is a Rock Art Monitoring Report for the 14 rock art sites that exist with Vandenberg Air Force Base boundaries. The purpose of Rock Art Monitoring is to 1) ensure Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) Compliance, 2) preserve and protect the unique cultural resources, and 3) monitor any threats to the rock art sites and recommend maintenance responses. The assessment report presents the findings, actions, and recommendations developed through scheduled monitoring and...


VAFB-2011-05: Rock Art ARPA Compliance 2011 (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Rick Bury. Antoinette Padgett. Dan Reeves.

This document is the 2011 Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1970 Rock Art Compliance Report. The goals of this project specifically include monitoring of three well-known and regularly visited rock art sites: Honda Ridge (CA-SBA-550), Window Cave (CA-SBA-655) and Swordfish Cave (CA-SBA-503). There are a total of 14 rock art sites that are monitored within Vandenberg Air Force Base boundaries. This report is one component of a continuing effort by the United States Air Force to protect...


VAFB-2020-32: Archaeological Investigations in Support of Section 106 Compliance Ground Based Strategic Deterrant Test Program (2020)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Beniamino Volta. Michael Connolly. Daniel Leonard. Daniel Leard.

This document is a report on the Archaeological Investigations in Support of the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Test Program. The purpose of this project is to modernize the United States’ land-based nuclear arsenal and eventually replace the nation’s current Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) system. A portion of development and testing of the new system, named Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), would take place in California at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa...


VAFB-2020-34: Identification of Built Environment Historic Properties and Assessment of Effects, Ground Based Strategic Detterent Test Program (2020)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Blackwell.

This document is a Section 106 Identification of Built Environment Historic Properties and Assessment of Effects for the Ground Bases Strategic Deterrent Test Program (GBSD). The project proposes to develop and test a new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) system by utilizing and modifying existing ICBM infrastructure at VAFB. The proposed Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) Test Program would develop and test a new ICBM system that would modernize the United States’ land-based...


VAFB-2021-14: Beta Analytic Testing Laboratory Report on CA-SBA-1594 and -1595 (2021)
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.


VAFB-2021-21: Identification of Historic Properties for the B4 Feeder Line Replacement Project, Vandenberg Space Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California (2021)
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...


VAFB-2021-28: Identification of Historic Properties for the Install Pad Mounted Switch at Pole A2-01/01 on OH Distribution Line Project (2021)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Roscoe Loetzerich.

This document is a Section 106 historic property inventory report for the Install Pad Mounted Switch at Pole A2-01/01 on OH Distribution Line Project. The document defines a study area, area of direct impact, and area of direct effect. The identification of historic properties within the study identified five archaeological sites, CA-SBA-2569, -2888, -3560, -3747, and -3748, the Camp Cooke Cantonment District, and two isolated finds, VAFB-ISO-170 and 510. This report supports a Section 106...


VAFB-2021-31: Places of Tradition and Religious Importance for the SYBCI during GBSD Test Program (2021)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Beniamino Volta.

This document is a Section 106 report on Places of Traditional Religious and Cultural Importance that might be impacted by the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) Test Program. Upon request by the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, this report was designed to present available information regarding places of traditional religious and cultural importance that may be affected by the proposed undertaking. Places of traditional religious and cultural importance may include Traditional Cultural...


VAFB-2021-36: Identification of Historic Properties and Assessment of Effect for the American Water Grubbing and Vegetation Removal Behind Building 856 Project, Vandenberg Space Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California (2021)
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...


VAFB-2022-04: Identification of Historic Properties and Assessment of Effects, Facility 1810 Sewer System Replacement Project (813-21-053), Fire Station #43, Vandenberg Space Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California (2022)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Josh Smallwood.

This document is a historic property inventory report and assessment of effects for the Facility 1810 Sewer System Replacement Project. The report 1) provides a project description and details about the work to be performed, 2) defines the Area of Direct Impact (ADI) and the project Area of Potential Effect (APE), explains the process of identifying historic properties that may be impacted by the project, 4) identifies the archaeological site CA-SBA-1060 as a historic property that may be...


VAFBM-2018-01: Archaeological Monitoring Report for Coast Road Culvert Repair 2018 (2018)
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...


Vertebrate and Invertebrate Paleontological Remains: San Rafael Ranch State Park, Arizona State Parks (2001)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim I. Mead. Harold D. Dyer.

Arizona State Parks (ASP) required the assessment of bones found exposed along the arroyo cut of the San Pedro River in San Rafael Valley, Santa Cruz County, southeastern Arizona. These remains held potential of being: 1) modern cattle (Bos) remains; 2) Spanish-age cattle (Bos); 3) Holocene-age Bison; or 4) Rancholabrean-age (> 11,000 B.P.) Bison or other large ungulate remains. This was the initial reason to enter lands held by San Rafael Ranch State Park (SRRSP). Cathy Johnson (ASP) contacted...


Washington Square Mound Site
PROJECT Uploaded by: Zac Selden

Multi-component Caddo mound site located in Nacogdoches, Texas.