Using Predictive Modeling to Proactively Avoid Sites for Natural Resources Conservation Service Practices in Southern New Mexico
Author(s): Tanner Guskey
Year: 2025
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Within the United States Department of Agriculture lies the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Its mission is to aid American Farmers through a variety of assistance programs. Archaeological work is intimately intwined in carrying out these programs. While it is necessary and good work, often the Archaeological work can slow or halt program implementation as there are too few Cultural Resource Specialists. Seeking ways to limit site encounters and thus reducing Archaeological workload and shortening project approval times, the NRCS South Area Office in New Mexico created and implemented a Predictive Model to provide Project Planners parameters for avoiding contact with locations likely to contain cultural resources.
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Using Predictive Modeling to Proactively Avoid Sites for Natural Resources Conservation Service Practices in Southern New Mexico. Tanner Guskey. Presented at The 90th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2025 ( tDAR id: 510835)
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Abstract Id(s): 52738