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DOCUMENT Full-Text United States Air Force, Joint Base San Antonio.

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. It outlines and assigns responsibilities for the management of cultural resources, discusses related concerns, and provides standard operating procedures (SOPs) that will help to preserve the cultural resources of the installation within the context of the mission. The ICRMP...

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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...

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Report and SHPO correspondence regarding the plan to remove and close twenty (20) underground storage tanks (UST). Project activities will consist of removing the USTs, remediating contaminated soil as necessary, improving site conditions, and backfilling the UST holes with clean fill.

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Unit Level Forms and photographs for LA110524

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Unit Level Forms and photographs for LA110530

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Unit Level Forms and photographs for LA133088

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Unit Level Forms and photographs for LA66373

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In compliance with Air Force Regulation 126-7 “Historic Preservation,” this plan describes procedures that will be taken by Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. The general scope of the Holloman Historic Preservation Plan concerns three major areas of activity: (1) The Main Cantonment Area, (2) Ground Operations on installation lands outside the Main Cantonment, and (3) Air Operations.

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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. It outlines and assigns responsibilities for the management of cultural resources, discusses related concerns, and provides standard operating procedures (SOPs) that will help to preserve the cultural resources of the installation within the context of the mission. The ICRMP...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christine K. Hensley.

Report presenting the results of an assessment of historical properties inventory and compliance efforts, identifies data gaps, and develops a strategy for evaluating cultural resources for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. With these goals in mind, an evaluation was made of the cultural resources management program at Maxwell AFB and recommendations are given.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brant G. Loflin.

This report was written under an Interagency, Agreement for Professional and Technical Assistance in Managing and Protecting Cultural Resources on Air Force property entered into by the U.S. Air Force and the National Park Service. This report describes the results of an assessment of historical properties inventory and compliance efforts, the identification of data gaps, and the development of a strategy for evaluating cultural resources, for listing in the National Register of Historic Place

DOCUMENT Full-Text James D. Gallison. David Kilby. David Wilcox. Roberto Herrera.

Beginning in January 2003, engineering-environment Management, Inc., (e2M), under contract with Kirtland Air Force Base, conducted a Section 110 cultural resources investigation of 6,654 acres of USFS lands withdrawn to Kirtland Air Force Base (4,824 ac) and the Department of Energy (1,830 ac) located in the Manzanita Mountains of New Mexico (DACA45-03-D-0005). The primary objectives of the survey were to revisit and update previously recorded archaeological sites that were determined to be...

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URS Legacy Grant Proposal: Achieving Force Protection Goals in Historic Buildings Within a Green/Sustainable Building Context

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 Cynthia Benedict. Liz Agpaoa. Jeanine A. Derby.

USDA Forest Service, Inventory Standards and Accounting - No Properties form in support of a prescribed burn. A linear survey of 3.1 acres was conducted for the construction of fire handlines. The survey falls entirely within the current project area. No sites were located. The firelines were never constructed. New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) concurrence is also included.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John S. Hayden.

A cultural resources survey was done on 36 acres for a proposed powerline on the Military Withdrawal for Sandia National Laboratories portion of Cibola National Forest. The area had been surveyed in previous years and this survey was done to ensure that known sites would not be damaged. Five areas were identified where caution should be applied in completing this project: The entire underground portion of the powerline should be monitored white being excavated. Area 2 should also be monitored...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert Dello-Russo. Roy W. Foster. Eric Petersen.

USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Form completed in support of an assessment by the Environmental Restoration Project of Sandia National Laboratories. The project has proposed to seal vertical and horizontal shafts at three historic mine sites in order to mitigate perceived safety hazards. on lands withdrawn from the Sandia Ranger District by the Department of Defense. The three historic mine sites are located on lands withdrawn from the Sandia Ranger District by the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Aleta J. Lawrence. Jeanine A. Derby.

USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Form (R3-FS-2300-4a) and Cibola National Forest Isolated Occurrence Form completed for the Bonito Canyon Handline Survey project proceeding a prescribed burn. No heritage sites were located in the project area. However, two Isolated Occurrences (IO) were discovered and recorded. Heritage resource clearance is recommended. Includes correspondence from the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service to the New Mexico State...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John S. Hayden.

Survey was conducted of an area 57.3 acres in size on Sandia Ranger District, Cibola National Forest for construction for additional facilities at the M-60 Range, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Two separate areas were surveyed. No evidence of cultural resources was found. Cultural Clearance is recommended.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John S. Hayden.

A project to construct a powerline and communication line to serve the Department of Defense High Energy Research and Technology Facility (HERTF) Site was found to be out of compliance viz, construction having been initiated prior to obtaining Cultural Clearance. A cultural resources survey was done on approximately 15 acres. Two prehistoric sites and one historic site were encountered for which project plans were changed to avoid. Cultural resources clearance is recommended.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John S. Hayden.

Survey was conducted of an area 57.3 acres in size on Sandia RD, Cibola National Forest for construction of additional facilities at the M-60 Range in SW/4, Sec 29 and the central portion of Sec 32; T9N, R5E, NMPM, Bernalillo Co. NM, (Mount Washington 7 1/2 min Quad.) Two separate areas were surveyed. No evidence of cultural resources was found. Cultural clearance is recommended.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John S. Hayden.

A cultural resources survey was done on approximately 6.7 acres on the Sandia Ranger District of the Cibola National Forest on the Department of Energy (DOE) Withdrawal for a project involving digging fox holes for military maneuvers. The area was part of two previous surveys and nothing was found. This survey also found no cultural remains. No cultural resource will be effected.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joan Wilkes.

The results and recommendations for the live fire range expansion project at Kirtland Air Force Base.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joan Wilkes.

A survey was done on 6 acres of the Sandia District of the Cibola National Forest on the Military Withdrawal for a project to install a fiber optic cable. Two Sites were relocated, AR-03-03-05-218 and AR-03-03-05-219 and the project was route~ around them. The Sites will not be impacted by the project. Two isolated finds were located and described: IF-1 and IF-2.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John S. Hayden.

This report documents the performance and findings of a cultural resource clearance survey for the temporary installation of a fence and communication (buried) line adjacent to the High Energy Research and Technology Facility (HERTF). The project involves the fencing of both sides of an existing native surface roadway for safety and to prevent entry by animals. A trench approximately 1' wide x 1' deep x 200' long will be excavated for a buried communication line. A series of experiments will be...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John S. Hayden.

Results of a survey for potential laser tracking sites. No archaeological sites were found.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Benedict.

USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Form for a survey in support the proposed Aerial Cable Site Fireline construction project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Benedict. Liz Agpaoa.

Completed USDA Forest Service 'Inventory Standards and Accounting: Negative Report - No Sites Present Form' (R3-FS-2300-4a) in support of a prescribed burn project entitled, Military Withdrawal Fuelwood/Burning. New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) concurrence is also included.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tom Cartledge. Jon Lutz.

USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Negative Report - No Sites Form completed for a survey in support of an Air Force Research Lab experiment. New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) concurrence is also included.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tom Cartledge. Christopher B. DeWitt.

USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Negative Report - No Sites Form completed for a survey in support of the replacement of 18 existing power poles in the vicinity of Coyote Canyon. Includes response from Kirtland Air Force Base Environmental Management Division with suggested modifications on the project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert Dello-Russo.

USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Negative Report - No Sites Form completed for a survey in support of the delineation of a hazardous waste area. Because no significant cultural resources of any kind were located in the project area, the Escondida Research Group recommended an archaeological clearance for this undertaking proposed by the Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Environmental Restoration Project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tom Cartledge. Sam Gooch.

USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Negative Report - No Sites Form completed for a survey in support of replacing and adding eight new powerline poles on Kirtland Air Force Base. New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) concurrence is also included.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John D. Schelberg.

USDA - Forest Service "Inventory Standards and Accounting Negative Report - No Sites Present" form (R3-FS-2300-4a) and correspondences related to the construction of a temporary building to house test equipment for research conducted at the nearby High Energy Research and Technology Facility (HERTF). An ARMS database records search revealed the proposed project area had been surveyed seven times in the recent past, with the closest archaeological site located 0.8 miles (1.2km)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Benedict. Liz Agpaoa. Cheryl Clark.

USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Form for a survey in support of the Otero Meadow Restoration Project. New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) concurrence is also included.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joan Wilkes.

A Cultural Resources Survey was done on acres on the Sandia Ranger District of the Cibola National Forest on the Military Withdrawal for a project involving digging fox holes for military maneuvers. The area was part of two previous surveys and nothing was found. This survey also found no cultural remains. No cultural resource will be effected. Cultural resource clearances recommended.

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.

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.

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....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

Survey was conducted on 1,447 acres in the vicinity of the Burn Site on Kirtland Air Force Base. The survey was conducted for Sandia National Laboratories in Lurance and Sol se Mete Canyons and the surrounding hill slopes. The survey yielded 40 archaeological sites and 80 isolated occurrences. One previously recorded site in the area was also included in the survey results. Another site was not relocated. The archaeological remains document Archaic, Anasazi, and historic use of the area. With a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard B. Sullivan.

Ogden Environmental Consultants conducted cultural resource survey of 39 helicopter landing zones (HLZs) at various locations in central New Mexico on behalf of Kirtland Air Force Base. Three HLZs are located on the Sandia Ranger District; one is on the Mountainair Ranger District; and one is on the Magdalena Ranger District. The remainder are not on Forest Service land. No sites were located at any of the five Forest Service locations, so there will be no effect to historic properties on Forest...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia B. Benedict.

A total of 315 acres were surveyed for Phase 4 of a LA rge ecosystem management project. Of these 3156 acres, 2188 were newly surveyed, and 968 were previously surveyed. There are a total of 26 sites in the project area. 14 of the sites are new, 12 are previously recorded. Sites AR 05-50 (LA 13283), AR 05-67 (LA 77130), AR 05-220 (LA 78483), AR 05-340 (LA 107707), AR 05-349 (LA 108122), AR 05-361 (LA 114781) are considered eligible for the National Register under criterion D. Sites AR 05-337...

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.

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.

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 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 Laurence W. Spanne.

This document discusses the emergency excavations conducted at SBA-1010 the Barka Slough Site. The excavation yielded stratified cultural deposits buried five feet below the surface. The occupational sequence, with an estimated age of between 3000 B.C. and A.D. 500, produced abundant remains of what appear to be those of Canadian Elk, along with Mule Deer and other mammals. The artifact assemblage suggests hunting, butchering, and hide processing activities at the site which was probably...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne. Michael A. Glassow.

This document is a preliminary report that presents the details of mapping 80 sites (maps not included) known in the project area, brief descriptions, and an initial evaluation of the significance of each site tested in the project area. Only 32 of the 80 sites were tested. As such this report was not considered adequate to provide supporting data for a draft EIS for the proposed Space Transportation Systems (STS) facilities at VAFB. A comprehensive final report on all aspects of field and lab...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne.

This report is a document that describes the results of an archaeological survey that has been conducted at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California (see Map 1) over the last three years by the author while working in the capacity of Research Assistant and Research Anthropologist for the University of California at Santa Barbara. Two separate contracts funded by the U. S. Air Force and administered by the National Park Service have helped to support an on going archaeological inventory survey of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne.

This document is a letter report for the archaeological survey and subsurface testing conducted by Laurence Spanne on December 5, 1975 to determine the impact of the installation of a cable trench near Launch Facility No. 23 on Vandenberg Air Force Base. The archeological survey focused on the east and northeast margins of CA-SBA-733, a previously recorded prehistoric site. The report also provided four recommendations in order to avoid or mitigate project impacts.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne.

This document is a letter report that serves as an Archaeological Impact Statement for the proposed construction of an antenna base immediately adjacent to Building 23251 at its western edge. According to information provided by the Federal Electric Corporation, sponsors for the construction, the proposed effort would involve emplacing a five foot square concrete pad to a depth of one foot at this location. No additional disturbance of the surface would result. Construction is located near...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael A. Glassow. Laurence W. Spanne.

This document is a Section 106 report that discusses a project that was designed to collect planning information for location of the Space Transportation System (STS) facilities on VAFB. This study was to include a survey or inventory of archaeological resources within the project area defined as a twenty-one mile long, 3,000' wide, coastal corridor extending from just north of the Santa Ynez River to a point south of Point Arguello. In addition, selected sites were to be tested, mapped, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne.

This document is for visits made on 6 February and again on 11 February, 1976, Laurence Spanne to the site of the proposed location for a new cable trench between Bear Creek, Old Surf and Coast Roads on South Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The proposed route for the cable trench was found to transect archaeological site CA-SBA-549 for a distance of approximately 1250 feet along a line beginning at a point about 300 feet southwest of the inter section of Bear Creek and Old Surf Roads...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael A. Glassow.

This document is a report that presents the results of an intensive archaeological survey of five separate areas on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, that range in size from approximately one to 400 acres. Based on information collected in a 1974 survey of other portions of the base, two sites were predicted to be present in the largest of the areas and one site in another. The survey failed to locate any sites, but isolated finds of three chert flakes and a flake tool in the localities...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Toni Carrell.

This document is for an inter-tidal and underwater archaeological survey of the VAFB Boathouse embayment conducted April 28-29, 1978. This survey was undertaken to obtain additional cultural resources data for the Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO) and to complete a Phase I archaeological survey and resource evaluation. No cultural resources were located within the project area, and additional underwater survey work is not recommended. Intertidal survey was a pedestrian survey...

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Archaeological survey of a 29-acre tract of land owned by the US Coast Guard at Point Conception. In addition to the survey, the scope of work included limited testing with a soil auger of a small section of property in which the Coast Guard wished to install a leach line and field. The scope of work also specified that National Register of Historic Places forms be filled out for any cultural resources deemed eligible for inclusion on the Register.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne. John Edwards. Robert Sydnor. E. A. Jackson.

This document is a study that was prepared as part of the archaeological monitoring program for the DOD Space Transportation Systems (STS) Ground Support Systems Integration Environmental Tasks at VAFB. Explains the general and project, or location specific, predictive criteria and ranking system employed for evaluating the probability of encountering subsurface archaeological sites at each Station Set Location. Includes detailed descriptions of previously encountered subsurface sites, and the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Gebhard. David Bricker.

This document is a Section 106 report that was written for public consumption as partial mitigation to minimize the adverse effects from planned Space Shuttle operations on this historical complex located on Vandenberg Air Force Base. The Department of the Air Force's Headquarters Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO), now space Division (SD), commissioned a detailed Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) report on the Boathouse along with this report for the public. The report...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David F. Stone. Anabel Ford. Albert Bixler.

This document is a report that discusses mitigation of impacts to CA-SBA-1176, the MAB-2 site, by construction grading of an access road connecting Pega Road with the Missile Assembly Building. Excavation of twelve cubic meters of soil helped to delineate and define two loci at the site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pandora Snethkamp. Duncan Ford. Anabel Ford.

This document is a letter report to Steve Craig of Henningson, Durham and Richardson, dated 3 July 1980, that reports the results of subsurface testing at CA-SBA-1036 located along El Rancho Lateral Road on VAFB in support of the environmental review process associated with the MX missile program. The purpose of the subsurface testing program was to define the scope of the mitigation required by providing accurate assessments of the depth of constituents and categories of information present...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brian Haley. Jeffery B. Serena.

This document is a report that presents the results of a site survey, delimitation, mapping, and limited subsurface testing program for proposed construction of MX missile test facilities. Six areas of potential cultural sensitivity were investigated to determine their archaeological sensitivity, define site boundaries, and generate preliminary data on site content. The proposed project will likely have adverse effects on SBA-1153, though more thorough investigation would likely be needed.

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Doelle. L. Mayro. S. Craig.

The initial fieldwork (1979) was designed to identify areas in which the construction of proposed MX facilities on San Antonio Terrace would result in impacts to cultural resources. Areas of projected impact were systematically surveyed, sites idetified, recorded, and mapped. All the cultural resources identified during this mitigation planning study were sites ranging in size from small lithic scatters on presumed trails to the archaeological remains of major settlements characterized by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence Spanne.

This document is a letter report responding to Parson's query about the potential significance of sites CA-SBA-1106, -1107, and -1149 located within the GSSI or Space Shuttle Project area. Previous work at these sites indicated that they likely held limited significance, but that final examination/evaluation and surface collection of artifacts should be conducted prior to construction. Subsurface testing was not previously conducted due to the sparseness of surface materials.

DOCUMENT Full-Text WESTEC Services.

This document describes how the Union Oil Company of California is proposing to conduct a geophysical data evaluation of reserved mineral lands within VAFB. The collection and compilation of this data entails a seismic survey of approximately 90.3 line-miles (14.5 line-kilometers). Prior to commencing the seismic survey, an investigation of potentially impacted biological and archaeological resources was initiated encompassing a 50-foot (15-m) centerline corridor involving 82.6 miles (132.2 km)...

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During February, 1981, the Office of Public Archaeology undertook a limited historic background study of a historic ranch site (SBa-1148) on Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California. The purpose of the study was to develop adequate information on the historic significance of the property as part of the Space Shuttle construction program. The study included review of primary and secondary literature sources, a site inspection, and four oral interviews. Historic research...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brian D. Haley.

Archaeological investigations were conducted by the Office of Public Archaeology at sites Sba-534 and Sba-680 in March, 1981, to mitigate impacts resulting from the construction of STS 69 KV Transmission Line on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Excavations in peripheral areas of both sites yielded chipped stone assemblages consisting primarily of chert debitage. Preliminary analysis of these materials suggests that the sites served in part as loci for the maintenance and modification of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roberta S. Greenwood. John S. Foster.

Archaeological investigations were undertaken by Greenwood and Associates for 12 archaeological sites (CA-SBa-603, 625, 722, 962, 978, 1007, 1008, 1009, 1011, 1019, 1020, and 1111) of which four sites are located on South Vandenberg and the remaining eight are located in North Vandenberg. It is the focus of this study to determine if the Range Improvement Project will have an adverse effect on cultural resources located within the project area. The investigations indicated that one site...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pandora E. Snethkamp.

This document is a research design prepared in support of archaeological research undertaken relative to construction of the MX Missile test facility on Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), Santa Barbara County, California. Archaeological surveys for this development were initiated in April, 1979. The first excavations were performed during the summer of 19S0 and are currently underway. Additional survey, test excavation programs, and mitigation of impact programs are expected to continue through...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffery B. Serena.

This document is a Section 106 report for salvage excavations at CA-SBA-1686 that were conducted to mitigate impacts from the Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) Space Transportation System (STS) related construction of V-33 (External Tank Processing and Storage Facility). The emergency field program resulted in the discovery of a large flaked stone assemblage representing a variety of aboriginal activities including reduction of cores to bifacial preforms, biface thinning, and tool maintenance....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence Spanne.

This document is a letter report summarizing results of a pedestrian survey of the Jesus Maria Oilfield improvements project area. A single archaeological site (CA-SBA-593) was identified in the vicinity. Trenching was deemed unlikely to have any impacts, but was monitored. A hearth feature was exposed during trenching. Feature was mapped in the trench wall and a sample of charcoal was collected for radiocarbon dating (results not included).

DOCUMENT Full-Text HDR Sciences.

This document contains the field notes, graphics, and other records pertaining to archaeological excavations conducted by HDR staff archaeologists for M-X facilities sitings at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California (September-December 1980). The original field notes have been edited, supplemented, and typed. Most of the pertinent original graphics, such as profiles, have been reproduced from field copies into final forms and their implications are briefly discussed. However, most of the original...

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 Pandora E. Snethkamp. Jerry D. Moore.

This document is a report that outlines an attempt to develop a set of explicit statements for guiding prehistoric research on San Antonio Terrace. These hypotheses fall into three major classes. The first class relates to environmental change with hypotheses linking to specific expectations for the project area, and by extension, to changes in patterns of subsistence and settlement behavior in prehistory. The second class of hypotheses derive from basic anthropological expectations about the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert O. Gibson.

This document is a technical report discussing a series of 12 shovel test pits excavated along both sides of Coast Road on Vandenberg Air Force Base. The test pits are adjacent to CA-Sba-1149H and yielded 8 chert flakes that were recovered on the west side of the road, within the area recently cleared of brush. Preliminary surface examination indicate a prehistoric archaeological site exists adjacent to the historic site. The majority of debitage <20 mm was deemed "natural" based on a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text WESTEC Services.

A biological and cultural resource monitoring program on VAFB, in conjunction with a seismic survey conducted on behalf of the Union Oil Company. The seismic survey represents a minor variation on a previously completed study (WESTEC 1981). These variations include changes in auger hole depth and frequency, and the use of minisocie vibrating device, did not appreciably alter the anticipated impacts on biological or cultural resources. During the monitoring program, three previously unrecorded...

DOCUMENT Full-Text The Office of History, 1st Strategic Aerospace Division.

This document is a report detailing the story of the Marshallia ranch house. It is the oldest structure on VAFB, has been a landmark for more than a century, surviving drastic remodellings and the ravages of two fires. Mexicans and Americans, ranchers and missile engineers, wars and depressions, have all played a role in its destiny. Its fate has been linked with the "Rancho de Jesus Maria," which covered nearly one-half of the land on present-day VAFB. The ranch house's history mirrors the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. O. Gibson. B. J. Schuyler.

This document is a report for the results of the archaeological monitoring in 1982 for the proposed V33 Tow Route identified intact portions of CA-SBA-1149 within the project area. This report summarizes the results of the subsequent monitoring program during construction activities. The construction activities consisted of bulldozers, scrapers, and graders widening and levelling the old Coast Road. A total of 170 isolated artifacts and one feature consisting of a lithic cache of preforms and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Air Force Flight Test Center.

This report documents an archaeological investigation of portions of the San Antonio Terrace and Shuman Canyon was requested in support of proposed undertakings concerning the Peacekeeper in Minuteman Silo Testing Program. Possible modifications of El Rancho, El Rancho Oeste, Pega, Umbra and Point Sal Roads include turnout areas and access roads to launch facilities LF-02, LF-05, and LF-08. Archaeological investigations consisted of a background literature review, field survey, and consultation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence Spanne.

This document provides general descriptions and map locations for known historic Anglo and Hispanic campsites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gail Thompson.

This document is a letter report that presents a summary of the methods and results of archaeological testing at CA-SBA-706 in July 1983. The purpose of this testing was to mitigate impacts to the site as a result of construction activities during the repair of damage to Bass Road.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffery B. Serena.

This document is a report of the analysis of marine shellfish remains recovered in archaeological investigations conducted to mitigate impacts of MX missile development at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence Spanne.

This document is a report on subsurface testing at CA-SBA-1686 revealing a low density cultural deposit consisting predominantly of Monterey Chert flakes. Testing was concentrated along the alignment of a proposed security fence and associated electrical trench. Datable charcoal and charred bone were collected (no dates reported), along with four chert tools. No features or distinguishable artifact clusters were identified within the area tested. These results are similar to those of previous...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roderick Brown.

This document is a letter report that presents the results of archaeological survey for a fence line replacement project at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California that will be completed by the U.S. Prison, Lompoc. Three previously recorded archaeological sites are located along the proposed fence line. No artifacts were observed.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roberta S. Greenwood. John M. Foster.

This document is a Section 106 archaeological survey that was performed to determine if any cultural resources would be affected by proposed modifications to four parcels (59 acres total) on south VAFB. Two previously recorded archaeological sites were in or near the study parcels. CA-SBA-1148 had been previous assessed as not significant and the boundaries of CA-SBA-1149 were unknown. No additional sites or isolated artifacts were discovered during the survey.

DOCUMENT Full-Text US Air Force, AFRCE-BMS.

This document is a data recovery plan for CA-SBA-1060 that was affected by the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison Program. The program was to construct and operate Peacekeeper Missile Program test facilities includes Roads and Utilities components. Phase 1 involves four elements: 1) the modification of 12 overhead utilities along El Rancho road, 2) upgrading of the El Rancho Road - Umbra Road intersection, 3) construction of an at-grade crossing of the Southern Pacific Railroad by El Rancho Road, and 4)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roberta S. Greenwood. John M. Foster.

This document is report for an inventory and limited awareness program that was undertaken to evaluate the potential impacts on cultural resources of two communications cable projects at VAFB. The inventory resulted in the discovery of five archaeological sites (4 prehistoric, 1 historic) and four cultural resource isolates. A limited assessment program was undertaken at the newly recorded sites (CA-SBA-1865H, 1866, 1867, 1868, and 1869) and at five previously identified sites (CA-SBA-513, 939,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert O. Gibson.

This documents describes that an archaeological surface survey was conducted in the vicinity of the proposed V-17 Visual Landing Aids Project's construction of Papi lights at the 6500 foot marker north of the VAFB runway. Two previously recorded archaeological sites (CA-SBA-775 and 776) were noted adjacent to the proposed project area. This report summarizes the results of subsurface testing for the 100x200 foot area that could potentially impact these two sites. Based on a series of 19...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Earth Technology Corporation.

This document is a report that summarizes archaeological field mitigation and monitoring on sites SBA-939, 513, and 1853. These studies include excavation of nine trenches at SBA-939, and monitoring the digging of a fiber optics cable trench through all three sites. As part of the Peacekeeper Program on VAFB, fiber optics cables were installed along a main corridor leading from the Installation Checkout Facility (ICF) complex, near the intersection of El Rancho Road and El Rancho Oeste Road;...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gloria Lauter.

This Memorandum is in reply to a request for a preliminary assessment of archaeological work which may be required for the proposed San Antonio Creek Flood Control Project at VAFB. The project area was as yet undetermined, so mapping and recommendations are aimed at identifying archaeological work that may be needed in the general area. Given the working project boundaries, nine archaeological sites are situated within the project area and will require assessment and evaluation to determine...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roderick S. Brown.

This is a preliminary study of the rates at which the wind alters archaeological deposits on the San Antonio Terrace. The study was undertaken as an adjunct to ongoing archaeological work on the terrace in advance of M-X Missile test facilities construction. The San Antonio Terrace is partially overlain by dunes believed to be less than 2,000 years old (Johnson 1983, Cooper 1967). Johnson labeled the very active dunes near the beach "recent" and the more vegetated dunes farther inland...

DOCUMENT Full-Text US Air Force, AFRCE-BMS.

This document is a cultural resources evaluation of three archaeological sites located along a proposed fiber optics cable installation route was conducted to determine site characteristics , NRHP eligibility, project effects, and potential mitigation measures. The Air Force has determined that the three sites, SBA-939, 513, and 1853, are eligible for the NRHP. The fiber optics cable installation will adversely affect site SBA-939. SBA-513 will likely not be affected; however, it is of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chambers Consultants and Planners.

This document is a report that presents the results of archaeological research undertaken in support of the construction of MX missile test facilities on northern Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California. During 1980-1982, all lands potentially subjected to construction impacts (the project area) were surveyed, and test excavations took place at 24 sites in order to define their boundaries and assess their significance. At eight of these sites excavations were more intensive...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lois Roberts.

This document is the historical research report for the MX Missile Test Facilities Project on Vandenberg Space Force Base. It provides a historical overview that is important to understanding the archaeology and historical period sites in the study area.

DOCUMENT Full-Text URS-Berger.

This document is a report that describes cultural resources testing and monitoring as part of the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison program, a program to construct and operate Peacekeeper missile test facilities at VAFB. The project included the installation of utilities and modification of roads. A total of 12 overhead utility lines crossing El Rancho and Umbra roads were undergrounded or modified; one was located in a floodplain and three were within or adjacent to a significant archaeological site ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert O. Gibson.

This document is a Section 106 report for archaeological testing performed on the site CA-SBA-212 located on Vandenberg Air Force Base. The testing was performed in support of the proposed installation of a communication line between an area near Point Pedernales to an existing line west of Coast Road. The purpose of the testing was to assess the National Register eligibility of CA-SBA-212. The report details the excavation of the site and presents the results. Although the document focuses...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Martin Marietta Corporation.

This report (ESR 20) describes the implementation of the Environmental Surveillance Plan for the STS Program at VAFB and is a continuation of reports No. 1-19. Construction activities continued at Station Sets V23, FY '84 Physical Security Modifications, V32 in Port Hueneme, and V80 (partial) Towroute. New construction began at V33 Harbor Headquarters Refurbishment, V23 Launch Pad Paving/North Access Road and Security Modifications Phase II (Security Patrol Roads) and V17 Visual Landing...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John M. Foster. Roberta S. Greenwood.

This document is a study that was conducted for Union Oil Company to identify and evaluate cultural resources which may be affected by their proposed Northwest Lompoc/Jesus Maria Project on VAFB. Union Oil proposes to construct 43 well pads with size ranging from an area of 200x200 to 200x420 feet, combined cable/pipeline corridors 10-15 feet wide, and new access roads 20 feet wide. The inventory resulted in the discover of nine archaeological sites and nine cultural resource isolates (eight...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Harmsworth Associates. Robert O. Gibson.

This document is a Section 106 inventory report discusses the results of monitoring and testing for construction activities associated with the V-23 Patrol Roads C and D. A total of 39 stone artifacts were recovered from Road C and 1 stone artifact was recovered from Road D during construction monitoring. A total of 10 shovel test units were excavated in the vicinity of where archaeological materials were unearthed and two new archaeological sites were identified. The two sites probably...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas Bamforth.

This document is a report that presents the results of an archaeological survey of approximately 12.17 miles of a fence surrounding the Point Sal Grazing Area and of an inspection of historic and prehistoric sites along a previously surveyed portion of this same fence. Seven archaeological sites and two isolates were recorded in the course of a survey o the fence around the Point Sal Grazing Area in the Casmalia Hills on VAFB in preparation for fence repair and replacement. In addition to this...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Foster.

This document is a archaeological study undertaken as part of an Environmental Assessment. The purpose was to identify unknown archaeological sites and evaluate emplacement of a buried communication cable (#1976) on Vandenberg Air Force Base. No previously unknown archaeological sites were discovered during the course of this investigation. Two isolated archaeological findings were made, though the materials do not appear eligible for NRHP.