Nellis Air Force Base Cultural Resources Archive

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Production total for historic mines within the NTTR.

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

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IMACS Site Forms in Nye County for Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert P. Dickerson.

Four playa basins in the northern part of the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR))—Mud Lake, Kawich Lake, Gold Flat, and Stonewall Flat, contain modern dry lake playas. Three of these playas are rimmed by shoreline deposits that developed during wetter climatic conditions of the past, and the fourth playa contains fossils typically associated with wetlands environments. Because it is known that native peoples inhabited the Great Basin during some of the past wetter climate cycles, defining...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

Ethnographic summaries indicate that Great Basin hunter-gatherers conducted a variety of resource strategies to perpetuate their physical lives and cultural lifeways. Due to the paucity of lush spring and meadow sites, it is likely that opportunistic hunting and gathering actions were common in the southern Great Basin. Steward (1938:181-82) notes that southern Nevada Paiutes likely used the resources of the Indian Springs vicinity for travel and resource procurement. He also stated (Steward...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lonnie C. Pippin.

Since the early 1960's, Pahute and Rainier mesas, situated in the northwestern portion of the Nevada Test Site, southern Nye County, Nevada (Figure 1), have been used by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for nuclear weapons testing. In accordance with the Limited Test Ban Treaty signed in August, 1963, this testing has been restricted to underground. Nevertheless, construction activities which accompany underground nuclear tests have resulted in the disturbance of the surface terrain around...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert Dickerson.

A systematic analysis of the dry lake systems on the Nevada Test and Training Range, managed by Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada was completed in 2010 by Robert Dickerson. Nellis Air Force Base invited Dickerson to conduct an analysis of fossil types. The library and field survey methods and the results of the investigation are described in this document. The kinds of fossils in the formations on the Nevada Test and Training Range are associated with a deep variety of invertebrate fossils. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Nichols.

Land Case N-42721 Peak 4400 (Mormon Mountains) 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. Rebecca Halbmaier.

The United States Air Force, 99th Civil Engineering Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB), Nevada is proposing fuels reduction for Cedar Peak located on the north range of the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). The protection of Cedar Peak from the effects of a wildland fire will require the clear cutting of the pinyon and juniper trees within an approximate 300-foot radius around the peak (approximately 30 acres), and an additional 900-foot radius around the clear cut area (approximately...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark A. Giambastiani. Emily S. Middleton.

This report documents the results of a Phase II cultural resources inventory of 7,000 acres on Range 77 (EC South), Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB), Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) Nye County, Nevada. Surveyed acreage encompasses two adjacent drainage corridors, lower Thirsty Canyon and lower Rocket Wash, both of which had been selected for the establishment of targets to be used in live-fire air-to-ground combat training. The NAFB/NTTR proposes to establish seven target zones in Thirsty...

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Photographs of Arrowhead Mining.

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Catherene Wilman. James D. Reinhardt.

Nellis history is complex and varied, and has been documented since its beginnings. The vast majority of the data, information, and pictures of this book are drawn from its official Army Air Corps and US Air Force histories written since 1941. Some of the photographs were donated by buffs who supported Nellis History. Unfortunately, we cannot thank all of them, since many pictures were donated anonymously. Where we know the donor, we have acknowledged them in the caption. Our heartfelt thanks go...

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Pillar Springs Photos

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jill Onken.

Seven springs in the northern Kawich Range were investigated to determine whether Holocene volcanic ash layers exist in alluvial deposits within the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). Although no discrete ash layers were visible in the exposures studied, microtephra analysis of sediment samples collected at Rose Spring and Cedar Spring revealed the presence of varying concentrations of ash shards. Radiocarbon dating and stratigraphic relationships suggest that both Mono-Inyo Craters and...

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Pintwater Petroglyphs Photos.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

This document is a plan for inventory and evaluation of cultural resources for an Area of Potential Effect (APE) for 2,500 acres, called the Project Area, plus 14.5 miles of the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad (LV&T) alignment.

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Arch Playa Site forms.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Stephanie D. Livingston. Christopher Pierce.

This report documents the methods and results of archaeological investigations conducted by the Desert Research Institute Social Sciences Center i n the Buckhorn Mining District of the Cortez Mountains, Nevada. The investigations were conducted for Cominco American to mitigate the adverse impacts to significant cultural resources resulting from expansion of the Buckhorn Mine onto land administered by the Bureau of Land Management. Mitigation efforts included avoidance of impacts by project...

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The document was developed to assist land managers and cultural resource custodians in evaluating the significance of prehistoric archaeological sites under the requirement of the National Historic Preservation Act and other federal laws and regulations. In the intervening 30 years, southern Nevada has been one of the nation’s fastest growing population centers. This explosive urban expansion has resulted in the recording of thousands of prehistoric sites and the excavation of hundreds of these.

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Gray Johnson. Anne Dubarton.

This report documents the methods and results of archaeological investigations at Sample Unit U19arP4 on Pahute Mesa at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). Eight sites were located there: four lithic artifact scatters (26NY1370, 26NY1372, 26NY3666 and 26NY3667), two temporary camps (26NY3665 and 26NY5418), one artifact locality (26NY5419), and one quarry (26NY3664). One of the lithic scatters, 26NY3667, incorporated a previously recorded rock ring, 26NY1371 , that could not be relocated during...

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As part of Nellis Air Force Base and Range Complex (NAFR) Historic Preservation Program, the Air Force in 1996 conducted archaeological research in this cave. This research was designed to contribute significantly to the Air Force's ability to evaluate other historic properties on NAFR. In a research design approved by the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) and Region 1 of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Air Force...

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Preliminary Engineering Study Auxiliary Landing Field Indian Springs, Nevada.

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Preliminary mineral report on the Castle Property.

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This Program Comment, adopted pursuant to 36 CFR § 800.l4( e), demonstrates Department of the Air Force (Air Force) and Department of the Navy (Navy) compliance with their responsibilities under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act with regard to the following actions in the management of the Wherry and Capehart Era family housing: maintenance, repair, layaway, mothballing, privatization and transfer out of federal agency ownership, substantial alteration through renovation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John L. Nau.

This Program Comment provides the Department of the Army (Army) with an alternative way to comply with its responsibilities under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act with regard to the effect of the following management actions on World War II (WWlI) and Cold War Era Army Ammunition Production Facilities and Plants that may be eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (Facilities and Plants) ongoing operations, maintenance and repair, rehabilitation,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ron Reno. Charles D. Zeier.

A management strategy similar to that used at the Hanford Site Manhattan Project and Cold War Era Historic District, Washington, is proposed, which will manage architectural resources including inventory, evaluation, and treatment by means of a programmatic agreement (PA) for the entire SNMATC.

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The purpose of this agreement is to define how SHPO and the the Air Base Wing will interact and cooperate with regard to implementing provisions of the NHPA. The goal of the agreement is to promote a more meaningful and productive partnership between SHPO and the the Air Base Wing, thereby enhancing cultural resource management activities on the the Air Base Wing-administered public lands in Nevada.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

Proposal for cultural resources monitoring during soil investigations in Three Lakes Valley, south of the Nevada Test and Training Range, Clark County, Nevada, to investigate the migration of depleted uranium through precipitation within Range 63-10 in a section of approximately 150,000 acres.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Vikki P. Allen. Christopher L. Harper. Michael S. Kelly. Robin E. McMullen. Suzan F. Rose.

The Nellis Air Force Range contains numerous historic und prehistoric archaeological resources, many in an excellent state of preservation due to protection offered by Federal ownership and limited access. Ten of these historic sites, consisting of historic ranching and mining complexes, were selected for recordanon and photography to provide the Air Force with detailed information on current condition, data potential, and conservation and management needs, as well as to provide information on...

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Brochure on the protection of cultural and natural resources on Nellis Air Force Base and Range lands.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Stoffle. Fletcher P. Chmara-Huff. Kathleen A. Van Vlack. Rebecca S. Toupal.

This is a report of findings about American Indian cultural concerns for places and landscapes in the Spring Mountain range in what is today called southern Nevada. More specifically it is a study of how people who speak a Numic language and who call themselves Nuwuvi or Nungwu, and are known in English as Southern Paiutes, interact with the Spring Mountain range.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Stoffle.

This is a report of findings about American Indian cultural concerns for places and landscapes in the Spring Mountain range in what is today called southern Nevada. More specifically it is a study of how people who speak a Numic language and who call themselves Nuwuvi or Nungwu, and are known in English as Southern Paiutes, interact with the Spring Mountain range. Included is a PDF presentation on the ethnography.

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R74 New Airfield Target.

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Range 64 Petroglyph Photos.

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Range 65 Petroglyph Photos.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynda M. Blair. Peter J. Calos.

On November 19, 1987, a cultural resource inventory was begun on Range 65 for a tank training facility. The project was initiated by the National Guard in an area which has been previously utilized for tank training exercises by the National Guard and the Air Force for a period exceeding 15 years.

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Map of the Range 71 High Desert Training Area part of the Nellis Air Force Base.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kish LaPierre.

The primary intent of this Air Force project is to develop an airfield within the existing Range 74 C. Possible uses of this airfield might include landing aircraft or air to ground weapons testing. This proposed area is easily accessed by existing dirt roads. The project area will be approximately three miles long and half mile wide.

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Photos from ECS.

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Report of survey results in support of release of land to the Veterans' Administration for the construction of a medical clinic.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer. Susanne J. Rowe.

Report of results from a revaluation of archaeolgoical sites on Nellis Air Force Base.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Susanne J. Rowe. Keith Myhrer.

In 1992, Air Combat Command (ACC), which has oversight of 23 bases including NAFB, took efforts to complete inventory and evaluation of cultural resources on NAFB in Las Vegas Valley. NAFB is one of few bases that projects facility expansion, thus planning for protection or mitigation as necessary. Eighty-seven percent of NAFB lands were inventoried and 34 sites were evaluated as eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under 36 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan Cline-Murphy. Lynda M. Blair.

The NAFB wishes to begin the NAGPRA compliance process and has contracted with the DEA to perform an archival search of records and curatories as well as to communicate with persons who may have knowledge of Native American remains or funerary objects which have been reported from graves located on NAFB properties.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Duane E. Peter.

Within the area of the additional pedestrian surface survey no cultural debris was observed. Therefore, archeological clearance is recommended along the route of the additional (Area II) survey with the proviso that if the route is changed outside the boundaries of the right of way surveyed additional survey would be required.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

Report on Phase II investigations of a historic trash pit. The buried trash consisted of aqua colored alcohol bottles (40%), ceramic dishes (may be soap dishes) (15%), cans (5%), cut bovine bones (30%), burned wood (5%), and small objects (including a burned shoe) (5%).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Marcus Grant.

The purpose of this project is to conduct a characterization sampling study for the EC South which includes a portion of Quartz Mountain. They are mountainous areas that research has demonstrated has high potential for identifying significant sites. This project is a 4% sample of 200,000 acres to identify eligible sites for preservation, management with the mission, and Native American visitation.

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An ongoing task of cultural resource inventories on the NTTR is the characterization of various numbered ranges and/or environmental regions as archaeological landscapes. How to characterize an archaeological region is an intentionally vague and open-ended question. This engenders a variety of research approaches that in turn generate data on a range of topics relevant to the study of prehistory and ethnography in the southern Great Basin and northern Mojave Desert.

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Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc. (Far Western), was retained by Nellis Air Force Base (AFB) to complete a research design to conduct an archaeological characterization study of the Belted Range and southern Kawich Valley as part of the Air Force’s ongoing Section 110 compliance. The following research design includes a synthesis of existing data on the environmental context and known archaeology of the area, and provides an issue-oriented research and sampling methodology for...

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This Summary Report presents the research context, methods, and results for an archaeological survey of approximately 2,000 acres of playa margin habitat in the Three Lakes Valley South on the Nellis Air Force Range (NAFR), Clark County, Nevada.

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The Treatment Plan identified three research issues as vital for adequate scientific understanding of the prehistory and paleoenvironments of Pintwater Cave and the vicinity: (1) the meaning of variability seen in southern Nevada dart points; ( 2) local effects of climatic variability on human occupation; and (3) Archaic period subsistence. Report comments attached.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Renee Kolvet. Richard Deis. Susan Stornetta. Mary K. Rusco. Fred Nials.

The Cactus Flat Lakeside Margine Study was conducted on the Tonopah Test Site of the Nevada Test and Training Range a the Nellis Air Force Base. The goal was to: 1) identify the types of cultural resources around the margins of this dry lake system; 2) test a geomorphological model relating specific landforms to the distributions of prehistoric cultural resources; and 3) determine the hydrographic history of this closed basin through examination of stratigraphic sequences. The model and the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Arnold.

This document describes the results of interviews from 1999 to 2002 among 31 members representing 16 tribes to identify artifacts in the NAFB collection that meet NAGPRA criteria for repatriation. The artifacts were recovered from Air Force lands in southern Nevada, with the boundaries shown in Figure 1. Interviews occurred among Native Americans at NAFB work sessions, with documentation by Richard Arnold, Spokesperson CGTO. A total of 131 of 2,195 artifacts were selected as meeting criteria for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert McCracken.

Transcripts of an interview with Roy Neighbors.

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A report on boom and bust mining cycles in the NTTR.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael D. Windham.

Northland Anthropological Research, Inc. (NAR), conducted an archaeological survey of five seismic exploration lines sited by Grant Geophysical Company on the northern slopes of the Spring Mountains in Clark County, Nevada. The survey was performed to insure that the proposed exploration activity would not adversely effect cultural resources. The lines, totalling 38.9 miles in length, were inspected between 3 and 11 January 1981. The survey recorded two archaeological sites, one representing a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

Nellis Air Force Base comments on the 1983 report of "Seismo-Acoustic Effects of Sonic Booms on Archeological Sites, Valentine Military Operations Area." The following is a description of deductive reasoning and results related to studies that Nellis AFB has conducted that may be referenced concerning the Effects of Sonic Booms on Archaeological Sites. Policy: Rock art sites on Nellis AFB lands have been and continue to be immediately removed from flight paths and surface disturbance. The north...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Eloisa V. Hopper. Alice Baldrica.

Nevada State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) initiated its review of the subject undertaking. The U.S. Air Force is deferring a determination of National Register eligibility for the following sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Spoerer. Michael A. Freeman.

This structure is known as an H-Frame transformer that feeds overhead and connects to transformers. The structure is in a bad state of disrepair, and if it collapses will lose power to several buildings on the base. The shape is that of a H constructed out of wood and installed in 1961 at Nellis Air Force Base. Location is near Building 415 circa 1961.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Eloisa V. Hopper. Alice Baldrica.

A transmittal letter to SHPO.

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SHPO Letter: H-Frame Removal Nellis Air Force Base.

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Includes correspondence from Colorado River Indian Tribe, City of North Las Vegas Public Works Department, SHPO, Nellis AFB, and the Final Draft Assessment for the Range Wash from Las Vegas Boulevard to the Confluence Detention Basin Project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Spoerer.

NAFB notified Nevada State Historic Preservation Office on April 21, 2015 that nine buildings had been demolished (6 at NAFB and 3 at Creech Air Force Base) prior to NAFB initiating consultation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael A. Freeman.

SHPO: Cultural Resource Survey Associated with the Beddown of Tactical Air Support Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, Clark County, Nevada.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julie H. Ernstein.

This letter identifies the broad-brush edits the SHPO strongly recommends be made to the Draft ICRMP.

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The Nevada State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) receipt acknowledgment of the modified plan.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julie H. Ernstein.

Correspondence indicated the SHPO is precluded from comment.

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Spoerer.

SHPO review of the ICRMP with handwritten edits/notes on the report.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julie H. Ernstein.

SHPO: Notification of Demolition of Nine Buildings--Six at Nellis Air Force Base and Three (3) at Creech Air Force Base (Nellis Air Force Base Report Number 04-2015-NAFB; DRI Report Number HE062513-1/SHPO UT 2015-3740 #20297)

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Spoerer.

These include six buildings at Nellis Air Force Base (601, 780, 4856, 10208, 10213, 10214) and three at Creech Air Force Base (65, 260, 261).

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Spoerer.

This letter serves to notify the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) of NAFB's plans to demolish ten buildings (432/433/434/436, 438 (Gym and Pool Complex), 604, 778, 867, 899, 80, 81 , 82, and 95) of which four are historic (circa- pre 1965) and six are Cold War-era resources (circa pre-1991) located at Nellis and Creech Air Force Bases, Clark County Nevada.

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SHPO correspondence regarding the demolition of 73 buildings.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Holly Hughes.

Three research questions were addressed. Two were related to the historic events surrounding the LV&T Railroad, specifically with regards to the presence or absence of the Hell on Wheels phenomenon and the standardizations of sidings. The third research question was related to the prehistoric use of the area, addressing possible areas of agave or yucca stock processing.

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Project maps for the Silver Flag Alpha Training Site, Nellis Air Force Base, in the Indian Springs Area, Clark County.

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Map, Base Civil Engineer Work Request, and photos related to Silver Flag.

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IMACS Site Forms at old GSRC sites for Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lamb Associates, Inc..

Thirteen former Weapon Storage Areas (WSAs) were built between 1948 and 1956 for the storage, maintenance, and operational read iness of the nuclear weapon stockpile. The former WSAs were operated under joint Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and Department of Defense agreements. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) had technical responsibility for the AEC weapons and their nuclear components. AEC and SNL personnel left the WSAs in 1960 and the WSAs were transferred to their host base by 1966. These...

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Conclusions about Cuprote Sulfur.

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The following document was written by ethnographers to initially determine the authenticity of groups in the region who has ancestral ties to the southern Great Basin. These people were hunter-gatherers who moved over 1000 or more square miles of territory.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Renee Kolvet. Richard Deis. Susan Stornetta. Mary K. Rusco.

The Nellis AFR Low Elevation Stratified Sample inventory was conducted in low areas of the range where most mission-related activities occur. This study, which was performed in accordance with Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act, had the following goals: 1) characterize the prehistoric cultural resources of low elevation areas on the range; and 2) use this information to construct a model for identifying areas of low to high potential for cultural remains. Data from this study...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lonnie C. Pippin. Ronald L. Reno. Gregory H. Henton.

Data recovery studies were initiated at Drill Hole Ul9aq to retrieve cultural resources information concerning the settlement and subsistence systems followed by the aboriginal hunter and gatherers in the area. Studies included the excavation of 28 separate units, ranging in size from less than one square meter to 32 square meters, and the collection and mapping of surface remains over a 84.8 hectare area.

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Documentation regarding the construction of the Las Vegas Flying School No. 10.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lonnie C. Pippin.

In 2010, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) proposed to install a 10.6 mile (17.1 km) long fiber optic line between the Tolicha Peak Compound and the top of Black Mountain, on the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), Nye County, Nevada. The proposed route of the fiber optic line coincides with corridors of existing utility lines and other disturbance, as much as possible, to minimize potential effects to the overall environment and to known historic properties. Only a short portion (600 m; 1,968 ft) of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert P. Dickerson. Amy Foreman.

Field studies for geomorphology, paleoenvironment, paleohydrology, plant ecology, and isotope geology were conducted at Stonewall Mountain and Stonewall Flat during the spring and summer of 2010 in support of Nellis AFB archaeological and ethnographic studies of the Stonewall Mountain region. These studies revealed natural resources for water, shelter, lithic tools, sulfur, and certain earth pigments exist at Stonewall Mountain and the Goldfield Hills. The playa in Stonewall Flat hosted a robust...

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This historic resources report includes a total of 121 buildings identified by Kish LaPierre, Cultural Resources Program Manager for Nellis AFB, that require survey and evaluation for potential NRHP eligibility because work anticipated for the energy conservation program at the installation may result in impacts that adversely affect these cultural resources.

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A historic context for the evaluation of NRHP eligibility of buildings at NAS Fallon and to survey, document, and evaluate all buildings and structures on NAS Fallon Main Station constructed prior to 1990 for NRHP eligibility with the exception of certain types of infrastructure. The project also was to evaluate whether one or more historic districts eligible for the NRHP exist at NAS Fallon. Nellis AFB is mentioned throughout this document.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

Survey of Alternate Segment of Nissan 400 OHV Race Near Apex, Nevada NV-91-01.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

In 1983, approximately 4,000 acres in the northwest corner of the Nevada Test and Training Range were segregated to construct a runway, headquarters building, office, and support structures including as a cafeteria to test fly the F-117 Stealth aircraft, a classified mission. The results of the surveys for 4,010 were submitted to the proponents but the project and supporting documentation were classified and not disseminated outside these Departments. The facilities were constructed. Nineteen...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

Inventory reports for construction of support facilities for lodging for 5,000 Stealth mission-related project workers and for associated rights-of-way between the habitation compound, called Mancamp, and the Area 10 Operations Center, a total of 375 acres, surveyed from 1983 to 1988, were authorized for release in 2009. The Area of Potential Effect is referenced as the Mancamp Zone. Seventeen sites, all lithic scatters, were recorded. No diagnostics were found. Tcwelve were small sites not...

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Talking Paper on Las Vegas Army Air Field/Nellis Air Force Base: 1941-1950.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ginny Bengston.

The Shoshone families who wintered in Oasis Valley spent most of the year traveling around in search of plants and animals that they used for food, medicine, and other subsistence purposes. This study focuses on one area that was used for these purposes, Thirsty Canyon, and the Shoshone people who used the area until its closure to the public in the 1940s.

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Map of Tingley's Mining sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Leland Johnson.

Tonopah Test Range was established in 1957 by Sandia Corporation and it provided an isolated place for the Atomic Energy Commission to test ballistics and non-nuclear features of atomic weapons. This report is a brief review of historical highlights at Tonopah Test Range. This brief review of historical highlights at Tonopah Test Range solicits corrections and additional memoirs from Sandians serving the range from 1957 to the present. The Los Lunas, Salton Sea, Kauai, and Edgewood testing...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul Murray.

Tribal Letter: Introduction of the Proposed Beddown of a Tactical Air Support Squadron (TASS) Environmental Assessment and Section 106 Consultation Invitation for Nellis Air Force Base.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Natalie L. Collins.

Correspondence regarding a task force on unauthorized collection of artifacts.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Stoffle. Richard W. Arnold. Kathleen Van Vlack. Sean M. O'Meara. Jessica L. Medwied-Savage.

The research presented in this document builds upon the ethnohistoric, ethnographic, ethnobotanical and ethnozoological information that was discussed in the first Black Mountain study. The lands of the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) were traditionally occupied and used by the Numic people.

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Nellis AFB has approximately 1,172 artifacts from 278 archaeological sites that are within the boundaries of Nevada Test and Training Range/NAFB. These artifacts were collected over the last 30 to 40 years. These items are housed at the Nevada State Museum repository in Carson City, Nevada.

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On November 17 and 18, 2016 Garth Hayden from Ecosystem Management, Inc. (EMI) met with Nellis Cultural Resources Manager (CRM) Kish LaPierre to assist in the curation of artifacts at the Nevada State Museum curation facility in Carson City, NV. The artifacts that were curated were designated for Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) repatriation (see attached 2003 and 2004 NAGPRA reports). Mr. Hayden also assisted the CRM in confirming and correcting catalogue entries for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gene L. Drais.

This report presents the results of a Class III inventory of 26.5 acres of public land in Lincoln County for Royal Air Force (RAF) crashed Harrier jet, subsequent burned area, and proposed access road. The proposed project area is located approximately 6 miles northwest of Rachel, Nevada. No cultural resources were located during this inventory.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan Stornetta. Robert G. Elston.

The project is a proposed Nevada Bell fiber optic cable burial route, 51.2 miles in length by 25 feet in width. The route extends between Centel-owned underground facilities located at the corner of Ann Road and U.S. Highway 95 on the southeast, to just northeast of the junction of Mercury Road and US Highway 95 on the northwest, where the new service will enter the Nevada Test Site. In addition, a short stretch of line on BLM administered lands will reach from Nevada Bell's Specter Mountain...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joanna Roberson. Daron Duke. Sarah Rice.

This report details Far Western’s findings, including the results of 1,730 acres of archaeological inventory conducted in 28 randomly selected sample survey units. A total of 56 new archaeological sites were recorded, and two previously recorded sites were updated. The survey also recorded 87 isolated artifacts or features.