Nellis Air Force Base Cultural Resources Archive

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Historic Evaluation of 64 Buildings - Appendix C Nevada State Historic Preservation Office Documentation.

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This report presents the National Register eligibility evaluations and recommendations for seven historic-age buildings and two Cold War-era resources (Buildings 67, 250, 258, 264, 265, 415, 839, 841, and 941) at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Cactus Range Mining Interpretive Brochure.

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Historic Photos of Nellis AFB.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer. Allen Metscher.

This document describes places on Bureau of Land Management and privately-owned land that during their historical lives utilized portions of what became the Nevada Test and Training Range (Maps 1 and 2).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

The U. S. Air Force proposes to construct six target areas connected with roads in a 33 hectare (81.5 acres) parcel at Sulphide Well (26Ny1495) on the southern end of the Cactus Range in the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). The construction of these target areas (P- 76) will also require the upgrade of an existing 4.7 kIn (2.9 miles) long dirt road to this area from its intersection with an already upgraded gravel road (Figures 1 and 2). Although Sulphide Well was originally recorded as...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

Sulfide Well, Nye County, is one of many mining sites on NTTR but is atypical in the fact that mining and ranching type activities occurred at the same site and that a mine shaft was converted into a well.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard R. Stockton.

The report presents the results of a cultural resources investigation of Nellis AFB Area 2. The survey that was conducted in May and June of 1993 by Environmental Solutions Inc. identified a range of historic artifacts and features that can serve as the basis for defining a pattern of historic utilization in isolated portions of the Las Vegas Valley and possibly in other desert areas. The field work recorded historic resources that serve as a compliment to written sources.

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History report of the 99th Air Base Wing for 2004-2005.

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A history of the Nellis Air Force Base Military Training Lands.

DOCUMENT Full-Text William G. White.

IMACS Site Forms with photographs for the Nellis Air Force Range Rock Art Study regarding four selected petroglyph/pictograph sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text K. Knight. R. Leavitt.

The Nevada Department of Transportation intends to upgrade and improve a portion of the right-of-way of US95 in Clark County, Nevada. A cultural resource reconnaissance was conducted to inventory sites within the right-of-way segment and recommend measures for their protection.

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Information brochure for new personnel.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert S. Sheets.

Indian Springs Fiber Optic Project. The communication system includes direct burial of approximately 50 miles of fiber optic cable between Nellis AFB and Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field.

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This plan pertains to the management of cultural resources on lands controlled by Nellis AFB, Creech AFB, and NTTR and to all by Nellis AFB, Creech AFB, and NTTR activities.

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This plan pertains to the management of cultural resources on all lands controlled by Nellis Air Force Base and to all Nellis Air Force Base activities.

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This ICRMP was developed to provide for effective management and protection of cultural resources. It summarizes the history and prehistory of the installation, and reviews past historical and archaeological survey efforts.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Lindemuth.

The U.S. Air Force (Air Force) proposes to construct and operate a series of target complexes at three locations in the North Range of the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) to simulate conditions in mountainous terrain: 1) 10 Limestone Ridge sites between Limestone Ridge and the Belted Range, 2) nine Saucer Mesa sites located just east of Saucer Mesa, and 3) a “no-drop” site along an existing road north of Cliff Springs within the Belted Range. Based on the existing data and records search...

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Inventory and evaluation (using National Register criteria) of approximately 50 World War II period structures at Nellis Air Force Base and Indian Springs Auxiliary Field, Nevada, to make recommendations on the significance of the properties, and to prepare BABS/HAER inventory cards for all properties.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

Results of a data review, records search, and native american observation of an 111-acre area.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

98th Range Wing (99 RANS), Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB), proposes expansion of an existing outdoor storage area in a pass in the south hills of the Pintwater Range. A 30-acre area was surveyed and used in 1998. Activities at Creech Air Force Base have dramatically increased. The addition would include storage of construction equipment and target vehicles. The Box Canyon Road gravel road bisects the project area. The storage addition is 70 acres and is the Area of Potential Effect (APE).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynn Haarklau.

Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB) proposes to release 42 acres of land in north Las Vegas Valley to private developers. Because the area surrounding the project area is 100% developed, the APE is considered to be the project area.

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Various articles from the Nevadan regarding the founding of Indian Springs and contaminate water wells.

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Historic photos taken by Julian Steward.

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Justification for lack of Physical integrity Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB), 98th Range Wing (99 RANS) proposes the re-installation of a building at Tolicha Peak, Nevada Test and Training Range, Nye County, Nevada. The Area of Potential Effect (APE) is 1.2 acres.

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IMACS Site Forms at Kawich Range sites for Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael S. Kelly. Kathleen L. Hull. W. G. Spaulding. Elena Nilsson. Christopher L. Harper. Russell Bevill. Suzan F. Rose.

The Kawich Range is considered one of the least explored and most pristine mountain ranges in the Great Basin, part of 3.1 million acres withdrawn from public access in 1940s by the Department of Defense. Dames & Moore, under contract to Prewitt & Associates, was selected by Nellis Air Force Base to perform archaeological inventory and recordation of a 5,000-acre sample of the Kawich Range. The three phases of this project include: (1) preparation of a predictive model and research design; (2)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert P. Dickerson.

Archaeologists are aware of the potential for late Pleistocene/early Holocene pluvial lake deposits to be associated with modern playas in the central and northern parts of the Great Basin. However, playas located farther south in the Great Basin do not appear to have supported pluvial lakes during past wet climate cycles. The five playas included in this study—the Indian Springs playa, Dog Bone Lake playa, Three Lakes Valley playa, the playas in Cactus Flat, and Pahute Mesa playa—are thought to...

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Land Lease between County of Nye and United States of America.

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Short presentation on the history of Nellis AFB. Presentation created by the 99 ABW History Office.

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The Las Vegas Mission was established in 1855 by Mormon missionaries in the center of the Las Vegas Valley along Las Vegas Creek. One purpose for the establishment of the mission was to convert the native people whom the Mormons referred to as "Lamanites" to Mormonism.

DOCUMENT Full-Text William R. Hildebrandt. Daron Duke.

A Section 110 archaeological characterization inventory of the Belted Range was conducted for Nellis Air Force Base by Far Western in the latter half of 2010. The focus of the study was on identifying patterning that could inform current research on the prehistoric exploitation of singleleaf pinyon. The survey identified 64 sites (62 prehistoric, 2 historic-period) within a total of 1,798 acres. We find that the Belted Range pinyon zone is much like those throughout the region that contain...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Nichols.

Land Case N-42721 Leith Mountain (south end of Clover Range) ACMI Communications Site -USAF/Construction of a 15' x 15' solar powered communications tower (leveling and trenching) and 110' x 120' helicopter landing zone (brush-clearing only).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Diane L. Winslow.

Letter Report - Results of archaeological and Native American monitoring in support of Southwest Gas Corporation’s natural gas pipeline replacement project 2017 GIR / VSP Eastline, Project B, Area II, Nellis Air Force Base

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark R. Chatterton.

Letter of completion regarding an inspection of reclamation work at a material site located within Nellis Air Force Range. This reclamation work was in response to the December 3, 2003, Decision which directed the removal of equipment, contaminated soils, and trash.

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Correspondence regarding the construction at the Air Force Gunnery School.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Warren A. Bennett Jr.. Walter P. Christensen.

Letter requesting access to Groom Lake via private aircraft.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert W. Smith. Daniel Robert Sheahan.

Correspondence related to Sheahan Family access to the Groom Mine.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Edwin C. Kelton.

Letter regarding construction of sewer, water, and gas systems.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John R. Herdin.

Correspondence related to the construction of the Flexible Gunnery School.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael A. Freeman.

Tribal letters sent regarding 2016 Bighorn Sheep Methodology for Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) Legislative Environmental Impact Statement.

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Lincoln Area Inventory Forms for Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

The BLM proposes emplacement of temporary wild horse-watering troughs at three springs in the south portion of the Cactus Range, Nellis Air Force Range (NAFR), Nye County, Nevada. In the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)-drafted Environmental Assessment NV-052-98-009, the agency states that the three springs, Cactus Springs, Stealth Spring, and Sleeping Column Seep, were chosen because data gathering underway suggests residual [wild horse] use of vegetation and water use in the Cactus Range. It is...

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Correspondence and photos from Longstreet Mining Site.

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Longstreet Photos.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tracey Henderson. Keith Myhrer. S. Hall. Allen Metscher.

Historical context of the Longstreet mining site.

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Lower Cave a road shelter located about 25 miles east of Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada was selected for excavation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Vera Morgan.

A systematic field survey of cultural resources at the Nellis Air Force Bombing and Gunnery Range including the Tonopah Test Range (TTR) was conducted by the Archaeological Research Center (ARC) of the Museum of Natural History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) between June and December 1978.

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Map including Minot Avenue, Ellsworth Avenue, and Munitions Road.

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Map of MU732h Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bertrand W. Pridham.

Request to visit a mining claim within the Nellis Range near Bald Mountain.

DOCUMENT Full-Text George E. Mathieu. Robert A. Allen.

Report on inquiry into property claim.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donna L. Clark.

On 8 December 1962, President John F. Kennedy visited Indian Springs AFB and the Nevada Test Site. This is a memo of record regarding that visit.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Loi Hopper. James G. Barmore.

MOA betweem the Nevada State Museum and Nellis Air Force Base.

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. L. McGonagle.

Cultural Resources report for the military maneuver area.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffry D. Knippel.

AFCEE guidance document on the identification and management of important cultural resources while safely conducting investigation and remedial efforts at AF MMRP sites.

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Monitoring Plan for the Hill Air Force Base (HIII AFB) Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP) which conducted a surface clearance to address Munitions and Explosives of Concern (MEC; unexploded ordnance, discarded military munitions, munitions constituents, and metallic munitions debris) that pose a threat to life and property at the Utah Test and Training Range, Elko County, Nevada.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Henry R. Cornwall. John R. Norberg.

Mineral Resources of the Nellis Air Force Base and the Nellis Bombing and Gunnery Range, Clark, Lincoln, and Nye Counties, Nevada.

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This is intended as an educational supplement for Range personnel to appreciate historic and prehistoric sites, and discusses only selected archaeological sites located along major Range roads. The data is for official use, restricted to veteran individuals who work on the north Range, known as the Nevada Test and Training Range. They must possess familiarity with the roads; directions are limited to Range managers. Entering mine sites is dangerous. Please limit calls to the Nellis Archaeologist...

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Information on the mining districts of Nevada. Information has been drawn from numerous historic and contemporary sources. District names and boundaries were determined using historical data tempered by current usage.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph Tingley. Jack Quade.

Mining in the Cactus Range, Nye County, Nevada.

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The primary objective of this data procurement is to identify and locate Native American cultural resources in the study area; to identify the ethnic values with which they are associated; and to develop socioeconomic profiles describing the specific Native American settlements in Utah and Nevada which are located within the potential deployment areas.

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Properties listed in the National Register with a short description from Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Stoffle. Michael J. Evans. David B. Halmo. Molly E. Dufort. Brian K. Fulfrost.

This study builds upon previous Native American cultural resource consultation studies conducted on the Nevada Test Site. Seventeen American Indian tribes having traditional prehistoric or historic ties to lands within and in the vicinity of the NTS study area (Stoffle, Olmsted, and Evans 1988) were invited to participate in this study. Their participation was in keeping with a Native American consultation process that has been developed over a period of seventeen years and has involved more...

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The primary purpose of the report is to begin collecting data from knowledgeable Indian people who have demonstrated cultural and historic ties to the NAFR. Participating in this study are the American Indian people (with traditional cultural ties to these lands) who have been consulting with the United States Air Force since January 1996. This report may be considered an appendix or companion document to the Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Overview produced in January 1997 for the first year of...

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Questionnaires used in the Native American Ethnographic Resources Study at Wildhorse Springs, Nevada.

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The purpose of this report is to survey and summarize the current information on the natural and cultural resources of Nellis Bombing and Gunnery Range (Nellis BGR), and to outline the work that must still be done to attain a full description of these resources. This description, when completed, wIII be a basis for the environmental analysis for continued withdrawal of the land from the public domain, and for resource use planning for these lands.

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The main objective of this account is to identify Native American groups and individuals who occupied the NAFR region, describe some areas traditionally occupied and used by Native inhabitants, and locate sacred sites and cultural landscapes recorded historically, which may be important to local Native American communities. A second objective is to identify important gaps in our understanding of these traditional cultural ties, and to suggest promising avenues toward filling those gaps. A third...

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Focuses on Site 26CK4984 located in Area II weapons storage area at Nellis Air Force Base.

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Nellis AFB produces a yearly calendar featuring archaeological sites on site.

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Nellis AFB archaeology posters.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynn Haarklau.

From 1999 through 2001, Nellis Air Force Base (AFB) affected Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) consultation with 31 tribally designated cultural experts representing 16 tribes culturally affiliated to federal lands managed by the Department of Defense (DoD) in central and southern Nevada. Of the 1,941 artifacts comprising the Nellis AFB artifact collection, NAGPRA tribal consultants selected 147 objects for repatriation (Arnold 2003). These artifacts were collected...

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Nellis Air Force Base Cold War-Era Historic Property Survey.

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Nellis Air Force Base Cold War summary.

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Photos of the Cold War building inventory.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

This review defines and summarizes the challenges and products of the CRM Program from 2005 to 2007. First, the Nellis Mission, the CRM Program’s support personnel, and summaries of NAFB and the NTTR are first addressed. Next, this report discusses the archaeology program that consists of compliance surveys, sampling inventories, justifications to limit inventory in target complexes, and the creation of a Depression-era mining video. The Native Program includes Annual Meetings, events and...

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List of the sites and associated artifacts that were reviewed during an inventory of the NAFB artifact collection at Nevada State Museum and the corrections made to database entries.

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The remains of the original 190-mile Las Vegas and Tonopah historic railroad alignment begin north of Las Vegas and end in Goldfield. The rail service began in downtown Las Vegas. From that point, an approximate 20 miles have been removed or disturbed through urbanization. Of the remaining 170 miles, an 18.5-mile portion is managed by Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB). An inventory of this portion of the grade was conducted in 2009. The hardware was removed more than 90 years ago and a degree of...

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A 1956 guide to Nellis AFB for new personnel.

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Historic photographs of Nellis AFB.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Erin Edwards.

Built in a modified L-shape plan, this Mid-Century building exhibits Brutalist stylistic detailing and was constructed in 1970.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tracey Henderson.

It was the goal of this project to gather information from Native American informants regarding the use of dry lake margins in the Great Basin and southern Utah. The information was both supportive to and supported by regional ethnographic data.

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1998 ICRMP with correspondence letters. The goals of the Nellis Air Force Base Cultural Resource Program are to identify and protect significant archaeological sites and Native American Traditional Cultural Properties while providing support for continued implementation of the Nellis mission.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa M. Smith.

Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB) contracted with the University of Montana, Center for Integrated Research (UM CIRE), in November 2016, to complete a cultural resource survey and technical report describing the results of a Section 106 archaeological inventory of approximately 3,300 acres of Range 71, on NAFB managed lands in Nye County, Nevada, which commenced in 2015.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

This document describes major tasks that utilize multi-disciplinary scientific processes to investigate archaeological and cultural sensitivities on the largest training range in the Air Force with fighter pilot training beginning in the 1950’s. The project is one of two evaluation phases that wIII be concurrently implemented. Part I concentrates geomorphological and archaeological investigations into seven major target construction and use zones, with the results to be subjected to consultation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tracy Henderson.

This study is a discriminating view of archaeological site records from Nellis Air Force Base. Records were selected based on defined criteria, experience of the land, and knowledge of the varied abilities of the many archaeologists who worked on this Air Force range over 35 years. This differs from statistical analyses where sites are ranked by accepting all data on site records as relatively equal. From a universe of 2,065 records, 244 were selected using intuitive criteria that reflected an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa M. Smith.

The Area II survey conducted by SWCA resulted in the documentation of 50 archaeological sites and 78 isolated finds. Sixteen of the archaeological sites were newly discovered, and of the 44 previously documented sites, 33 were found and reinvestigated. The archaeological sites included 15 prehistoric/ethnographic sites associated with Native Americans, 32 historic sites potentially associated with Euro‐Americans, and 3 multi‐component sites with prehistoric/ethnohistoric and historic components....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa M. Smith.

The Area II survey conducted by SWCA resulted in the documentation of 50 archaeological sites and 78 isolated finds. Sixteen of the archaeological sites were newly discovered, and of the 44 previously documented sites, 33 were found and reinvestigated. The archaeological sites included 15 prehistoric/ethnographic sites associated with Native Americans, 32 historic sites potentially associated with Euro‐Americans, and 3 multi‐component sites with prehistoric/ethnohistoric and historic components....

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The BLM has proposed 5 locations within or immediately adjacent to the Nellis Air Force Range as potential trapping sites to be used during the September 1993 Wild horse and burro gathers.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

Site inventory and acreage calculations for Nellis AFB.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pamela Lawrence. Gregory R. Seymour. Heather Cain. Hal B. Rager.

Nellis Air Force Withdrawal Lands, Clark County, Nevada

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Descriptions of slides used to depict the interactions between the state of Nevada and the US Air Force during WWII.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jerry White.

Presentation about Nevada and its use for military operations.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Victor E. Kral.

Nevada State Bureau of Mines Form.

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Built in a modified L-shape plan, this Cold War-era building exhibits Brutalist stylistic detailing and was constructed in 1970.

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The Nevada Test Site Guid expands on the information previously published in the Guide to Frenchman Flat. While the new guide does not cover all the events that have occurred at the Nevada Test Site, it does contain photographs and articles on past atmospheric and underground tests, and other events and programs that play a ,very important role in the nation's security and defense.

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This inventory will support an Environmental Assessment for the NTI by identifying any cultural resources eligible to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) within the Area of Potential Effect (APE) for NTI. An additional 111.2 acres were inventoried along existing roads, in Range 65N, and in the vicinity of an existing target in the South Range. These areas are not part of the NTI project. A total of 2,480.3 acres were inventoried for cultural resources.

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Summary of collections stored at the Nevada State Museum.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tracy Henderson.

The 98th Range Wing and Environmental Management Flight often accumulate data for projects that without creation of an exchange vehicle is not shared. Discussions with Range Wing determined a combination of efforts would present parameters of acreage previously inventoried and released through consultation that could be used to make future planning more efficient. The NAFB archaeologists routinely inventory areas larger than requested. This acreage could be superimposed on Range maps with the...

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A collection of plane crash photos.