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Under
contract to the Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Region, Alpine
conducted reevaluation and testing on select sites along the Green
River within areas of potential impacts from proposed water flow
changes from Flaming Gorge Dam. Six
sites in Moffat County, Colorado
were revisited during the project, including three historic sites and three
prehistoric sites. All were evaluated
in relationship to potential impacts, testing and reevaluation conducted on
the sites found three of the sites to be significant and three to be
non-significant. All of the sites
revisited during this scope of work were on lands owned by the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge. Testing at Fort Davy Crockett determined
that the cultural deposits exist outside of the area mitigated in 1980. In addition, the assessment for potential
impacts also determined that the site will be impacted by the proposed flow
increases. Additionally, site
reevaluations found two sites to be eligible to the National Register of
Historic Places. The latter were also
found to be within the area of potential impacts and will likely be adversely
effected by impacts incurred from proposed water fluctuations. Testing was also implemented on site
5MF1232 to establish a period of occupancy for the site. The remaining three sites were all assessed
as insignificant. Artifacts collected
in the course of the project were submitted to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service for curation at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.
Pfertsh,
Jack E.
2003 Archaeological Documentation and Testing
of Six Sites for Flaming Gorge Dam Flow Study Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge Moffat
County, Colorado.
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Cowboy Wash Archaeological District
Alpine was hired by the
Bureau of Reclamation to write a preservation plan for the Cowboy Wash
Archaeological District in Montezuma County, Colorado. The
document is the outcome of a 1990 programmatic agreement among the Bureau of Reclamation,
the Colorado State Historic Preservation Office, the Advisory Council on
Historic Preservation, the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe, and the Bureau of
Indian Affairs for the Ute Mountain Ute (UTU) Irrigated Lands Project. It is intended to serve as a guide for the
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and Ute Mountain Farm and Ranch Enterprises (UMUFRE)
for both the preservation of known archaeological resources and for dealing
with any archeological discoveries made during maintenance or construction
activities associated with the UMU Irrigated Lands Project. The preservation plan addresses three
tracts of land, totaling 23,051 acres, that contain 109 center pivot
irrigation systems on Th UMU Irrigated Lands Project. The tracts, in turn, are encompassed by the
National Register-eligible Cowboy Wash Archaeological District (CWAD). A total of 477 cultural resource sites have
been documented within the CWAD, including 210 that have been officially
determined to be eligible to the National Register of Historic Places. Finally, 104 sites are within or very near
the boundaries of irrigation circles.
Fifty-six have been mitigated and 8 have been determined officially
not eligible to the NRHP; these 64 sites require no further archaeological
work. Forty eligible and "need
data" sites have not been subjected to mitigative excavation or have
been only partially mitigated; the preservation of these and
as-yet-undiscovered sites in the project area is the goal of UMUFRE and the
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and the purpose of this preservation and discovery
plan.
Redman, Kimberly L, and Rand A. Greubel
2003 The Ute Mountain Ute
Irrigated Lands Project Preservation and Discovery Plan for the Cowboy Wash
Archaeological District.
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Nucla Ash Station
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc.
(Tri-State) is planning to expand their ash disposal facility associated with
its Nucla Station, a coal-fired generation station in western Montrose
County, Colorado. The expansion will encompass a 40-acre
parcel adjacent to the existing ash disposal facility and will require
improvement of a dirt access road.
Project lands are owned by Tri-State. The lead agency for the project
is the Rural Utility Service. Alpine conducted a site file search and
intensive pedestrian inventory of the 40-acre parcel and access road in the
Fall of 2002. Four cultural resource
sites and one isolated find were identified within the project area. All represent use of the project area by
prehistoric or protohistoric Native Americans. Two
of the sites are recommended as eligible for nomination to the National
Register of Historic Places. The two other sites, along with the isolated
find, are regarded as insignificant and ineligible for nomination to the
National Register of Historic Places.
No artifacts were collected.
Reed,
Alan D
Cultural Resource
Inventory of Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association's Planned Ash
Disposal Facility Expansion near Nucla Station, Montrose County, Colorado.
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The Tri-County Water Conservancy District proposes to
extend a water line along the Buckhorn Road
northeast of Colona,
Colorado, from the terminus of an
existing water line to private land.
Part of the route of the water line extension passes through federal
land managed by the Uncompahgre Field Office of the Bureau of Land
Management. Alpine conducted an
intensive cultural resource inventory of the route of the proposed water line
on BLM land in advance of project development. Approximately 701 linear meters (5.3 acres)
were inspected in the Spring of 2003, resulting in the identification of one
prehistoric isolated find and one prehistoric cultural resource site. These resources are believed to have no
potential to yield additional important scientific information and,
therefore, are evaluated as not eligible to the National Register of Historic
Places. One cone tinkler was collected
and was curated at the Anasazi Heritage
Center.
Greubel,
Rand A.
2003 A Cultural Resource Inventory of a
Proposed Water Line Extension Along Buckhorn Road near Colona, Montrose County, Colorado.
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Alpine conducted
archaeological inventories in La Plata County, Colorado for areas burned along the west shore of Vallecito Reservoir during the June 2002 Missionary Ridge fire. The original
scope of the project was to inventory five land parcels owned by the Bureau
of Reclamation adjacent to County Road 501 for the purpose of removing
hazardous trees and mechanical fuels.
The scope of work was also expanded to include a 100-foot-wide strip
of land along the shores of the reservoir between the high water mark and the
current water level for the purpose of stabilizing the eroding
shoreline. Due to inclement weather
and snow obstruction, the project was conducted in two Phases. Phase I was carried out and constituted the
areas devoid of snow (72 acres). Phase
II was inventoried and entailed the remaining 98 acres of the project
area. The Vallecito Reservoir
Phase I survey resulted in the identification of two newly recorded historic
sites, two isolated finds, and the reevaluation of the Vallecito Government
Camp. Also encountered in Areas #2 and #4 was the footprint of an aerial
powerline; however, the line did not meet the 50 year criterion, having been
built in the early 1960s. Phase II of the Vallecito Reservoir survey resulted
in the identification of one newly recorded historic site and one isolated
find.
Pfertsh,
Jack E.
2003 Cultural
Resource Inventory for Shoreline Stabilization and Proposed Removal of Hazardous
Trees and Mechanical Fuels Reduction for Bureau of Reclamation Lands Burned
at Vallecito Reservoir, La
Plata County, Colorado.
Pfertsh,
Jack E.
2003 Addendum Report: Cultural Resource Inventory for Shoreline
Stabilization and Proposed of Hazardous Trees and Mechanical Fuels Reduction
for Bureau of Reclamation Lands Burned at Vallecito Reservoir, La Plata
County, Colorado.
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Cultural Resource Inventory of the TransColorado
Compression Project, Mesa, Montrose, Montezuma, and La Plata Counties
Alpine was hired by Kinder
Morgan to conduct an intensive cultural resource inventory of three
compressor station locations and two access roads associated with the
TransColorado Compression Project.
Kinder Morgan plans to construct new compressor stations near
Whitewater, Redvale, and Mancos, Colorado. Existing
compressor stations near Dolores and Olathe, Colorado will be expanded within their current
boundaries. The new compressor
stations will each encompass roughly 5 acres.
An additional 300 feet (91 m) was surveyed around each side of the
compressor stations to serve as a buffer, resulting in total survey areas of
25.1 acres at the Whitewater Compressor Station site on lands administered by
the Bureau of Land Management Grand Junction Field Office, 24.1 acres of
private land at the Naturita Compressor Station site, and 24.5 acres at the
Mancos Compressor Station site on the San Juan National Forest A 181-m-long access road was surveyed at
Whitewater, and a 276-m-long access road was inventoried at Mancos. A total of 73.7 acres were inventoried for
the compressor stations and 5.6 acres for the access roads. The cultural resource inventory resulted in
the discovery and recordation of two prehistoric sites at the Redvale
[Naturita Creek] Compressor Station location.
No artifacts were collected.
Eckman,
Jason C.
2003 Cultural
Resource Inventory of the TransColorado Compression Project Mesa, Montrose, Montezuma, and La Plata Counties, Colorado.
Pfertsh,
Jack E.
2003 Cultural Resource Inventory of the
TransColorado Compression Project, Montezuma and La Plata Counties, Colorado.
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Cultural Resource Inventory of BLM Wildfire Urban Interface Areas, Montrose
and Ouray Counties
Alpine was hired by
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association (Tri-State) of Denver, Colorado to conduct an intensive, pedestrian cultural
resource inventory of vegetation treatment areas proposed by the BLM for the
Wildfire Urban Interface associated with the
Uncompahgre Plateau Project.
This project consists of the removal of existing vegetation, primarily
pinyon, juniper, and Gambel oak by mechanical or other, yet to be determined
methods. The areas would then be
re-seeded to an early seral stage of grass and forbs. An intensive pedestrian inventory was
conducted at 29 treatment locations varying in size from 2.5 to 58.5 acres,
for a total of 477.27 acres surveyed.
Twenty-eight sites and 34 isolated finds were recorded. Four previously recorded sites were
reevaluated and three previously recorded sites were reevaluated and
rerecorded. Twenty-eight sites are
within the project areas. Of the 28
recorded sites, 16 are recommended as eligible and 12 are recommended not
eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. Avoidance is recommended for all sites that
are recommended as eligible for inclusion on the National Register of
Historic Places. Two diagnostic
Paleoindian projectile point fragments were collected for
classification. These are the only two
artifacts collected from the project area.
They have been curated at the Anasazi Heritage Center (AHC), Dolores,
Colorado (Accession #2003.38).
McGuire,
Jack K.
2003 Cultural Resource Inventory of the
Wildfire Urban Interface Areas for the Uncompahgre Project Montrose and Ouray Counties, Colorado.
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Cultural Resource Inventory of Montrose to Nucla and Nucla
to Cahone 115 kV Transmission Lines and Access Roads Dolores, San Miguel,
Ouray, and Montrose Counties
Alpine was hired by
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association (Tri-State) to conduct an
intensive pedestrian cultural resource inventory of Tri-State’s
Montrose to Nucla and Nucla to Cahone 115 kV transmission lines and access
roads. Portions of the access roads
are in need of maintenance that will require varying levels of vegetation
removal and grading. The project area
extends from just west of Dolores to the just west of Montrose, passing
through Dolores, San Miguel, Ouray and Montrose counties, Colorado. An
intensive pedestrian inventory was conducted along the 100-foot-wide
(30-m-wide) right-of-way corridor.
Sixty-five unimproved access roads were surveyed to a width of 50 feet
(15 m) except on the San Juan National Forest, which were surveyed to a width of 100 feet (30 m). In such a manner, 80 miles of the existing
Tri-State Montrose-Cahone 115 kV transmission line right-of-way corridors and
25 miles of access roads were intensively inventoried, totaling 1,133 acres. Of the 1,133 acres total, 267.48 acres are
administered by the Bureau of Land Management’s Uncompahgre Field
Office, 248.7 acres are administered by the Bureau of Land Management’s
San Juan Field Office, 204 acres are administered by the Uncompahgre National
Forest, 129 acres are administered by the San Juan National Forest, 36.3
acres are on State land, and 247.4 acres are privately owned. Eight-five sites and 48 isolated finds were
recorded. Fifty-one of the sites are
either officially eligible or are recommended eligible for inclusion on the
National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), 14 sites are officially not
eligible for the NRHP, and 20 sites are recommended not eligible for the
NRHP. Those sites should be avoided by
all ground-disturbing activities during transmission line or access road
maintenance. No artifacts were
collected.
McGuire,
Jack K.
2003 Cultural Resource Inventory of Tri-State's
Montrose to Nucla and Nucla to Cahone 115 kV Transmission Lines and Access
Roads Dolores, San Miguel, Ouray, and Montrose Counties, Colorado.
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Sample-Oriented Cultural Resource Inventory for the
Proposed Nucla-Telluride Transmission Line Project, Montrose and San
Miguel Counties,
Colorado
During the fall of 1998, Alpine conducted cultural resource inventories in
support of the Nucla to Telluride Transmission Line, Montrose and San
Miguel Counties,
Colorado. These surveys were in
the form of sample-oriented inventories designed to investigate site
distribution and density within the proposed Nucla to Telluride transmission
line corridor to aid in preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement for
the project. The report describes the results of Alpine's inventories of 13 nonrandomly selected sample units that total
approximately 318 acres. In addition, the report presents the results of the
160-acre Horse Pasture Range Improvement survey, completed in 1993 by the
USDA Forest Service, Uncompahgre National
Forest. The combined inventories resulted in
the identification of 20 new cultural resource sites, 23 isolated finds, and
the reevaluation of one site. One site is twentieth-century Euroamerican, 16
sites are prehistoric, and four have both historic and prehistoric
components.
Pfertsh, Jack E.
1999 A Sample-Oriented Cultural Resource Inventory for the Proposed
Nucla-Telluride Transmission Line Project, Montrose and San
Miguel Counties,
Colorado.
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Cultural Resource Inventory of Western Area Power
Administration's Planned Curecanti-Lost
Canyon
Transmission Line Reroute Montrose, County, Colorado
During the 1999 field season, Alpine conducted intensive cultural resource
inventories along segments of the Curecanti-Lost Canyon 230 kV transmission
line that are to be disassembled and rerouted. Two reroute alternatives were
considered. A total of 32 km of transmission line route was intensively
inspected. Twenty-two cultural resource sites and 27 isolated finds were
identified. Two of the sites were historic, and included a portion of the
Hairpin Ditch and a road. The remaining cultural resources, including all of
the isolated finds, were prehistoric. Prehistoric sites and isolated finds
were most densely clustered in the lower elevations within the project area.
Reed, Alan D., and James P. Davis
1999 Cultural Resource Inventory of
Western Area Power Administration's Planned Curecanti-Lost Canyon
Transmission Line Reroute Montrose, County, Colorado.
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Cultural Resource Inventories at the California
Gulch Superfund Site Operable Unit 6 Lake
County, Colorado
In June 1996, Alpine conducted a cultural resource inventory of a proposed
15-acre soil borrow area and access road in Operable Unit 6 of the California
Gulch Superfund Site east of the city of the Leadville in Lake County,
Colorado. The project area is between Stray Horse Gulch and Little Stray
Horse Gulch on private patented mining claims owned by Leadville Silver &
Gold, Inc. One previously recorded historic site (the Denver City Mine), four
new historic sites (the Shamus O'Brien and Quadrilateral Mines, the McCormick
Mine, the Result Mine, and Finntown, and four
segments of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and Leadville Mineral Belt
Railway (Colorado & Southern Railroad).
Horn, Jonathon C., and Susan M. Chandler
1996 Cultural Resource Inventory of a Proposed
15-Acre Borrow Area and Access Road California Gulch Superfund Site Operable
Unit 6 Lake County, Colorado.
In June 1996, Alpine conducted a cultural resource inventory of two high
priority survey areas in Operable Unit 6 of the California Gulch Superfund
Site east of the city of Leadville
in Lake County, Colorado.
The inventory areas were in two separate tracts, The first tract was an
irregularly shaped corridor running along the lower slopes of Iron Hill
between Stray Horse Gulch on the north and Graham Park on the south; it
measured 43 acres. The second tract was on the northwest slope of Little
Ellen Hill, south of Evans Gulch; it measured 47 acres. Thirteen sites (12
historic mining sites and 1 historic residential community with a small Late
Prehistoric component) and 12 segments of the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad and the Leadville Mineral Belt Railway, and 29 mine prospect pits
were recorded.
Horn, Jonathon C.
1997 Cultural Resource Inventory of Two
High Priority Survey Areas California Gulch Superfund Site, Operable Unit 6,
Lake County, Colorado.
From June to July 1996, Alpine conducted an intensive cultural resource
Inventory of a 76-acre remediation area within Operable Unit 6 of the
California Gulch Superfund Site east of the city of Leadville
in Lake County, Colorado.
Forty-seven cultural resources were found in the study area, including 22
segments of two historic railroads (the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and
the Leadville Mineral Belt Railway), 23 sites, and 2 isolated finds. The 23
sites include 21 historic mining sites, some with associated habitation
areas, and Finntown, a large residential
settlement.
Horn, Jonathon C., and Susan M. Chandler
1997 Cultural Resource Inventory Report of a Remediation Area at the California
Gulch Superfund Site Operable Unit 6, Lake County,
Colorado.
From June to July 1996, Alpine conducted an intensive cultural resource
inventory of three, small, noncontiguous remediation areas within Operable
Unit 6 of the California Gulch Superfund Site east of the city of Leadville
in Lake County, Colorado.
Twenty-two cultural resources were found in the current study area, including
6 segments of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and the Leadville Mineral
Belt Railway, 15 sites (14 historic mining sites and 1 historic residential
community with a small prehistoric component), and one historic mine shaft
pit location recorded as an isolated find.
Horn, Jonathon C., and Susan M. Chandler
1997 Cultural Resource Inventory of
Three Remediation Areas in the Vicinity of the Matchless Mine, California
Gulch Superfund Site, Operable Unit 6, Lake County, Colorado.
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Cultural Resource Inventory of the Tarryall
Road, Park County,
Colorado
From June to September 1995, Alpine conducted a Class III cultural
resource inventory of Forest Highway 81, also known as Tarryall
Road and County Road 77, in Park
County, Colorado. The project
area begins at the town of Jefferson on U.S. Highway 285 and follows the
entire length of Tarryall Road (Forest Highway 81) to its intersection with
U.S. Highway 24 about 3 km west of the town of Lake George, a distance of 67
km. The road corridor survey resulted in the discovery of 53 newly recorded
sites, 7 previously recorded historic sites, and 15 isolated finds. The 60
sites contained 54 historic components and 7 prehistoric components. All of
the isolated finds were prehistoric except for a historic mine prospect pit.
Horn, Jonathon C.
1996 Cultural Resource Inventory of Forest Highway 81 (Tarryall Road) Park County, Colorado.
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Archaeological Investigations in Support of the
Winter Water Replacement Phase of the Bureau of Reclamation's Colorado River
Quality Improvement Program Lower Gunnison Basin Unit, Delta and Montrose
Counties, Colorado
From February 1990 through June 1994, Alpine conducted archaeological
investigations in support of Years One through Five of the Winter Water Phase
of the USDI Bureau of Reclamation's Colorado River Quality Improvement
Program. That work involved installing domestic water lines to deliver water
for livestock so that winter flows in canals and laterals in the Lower
Gunnison Basin Unit can be discontinued, thus ultimately reduction the
salinity content in the Colorado River. Rights-of-way for pipelines installed
by the Uncompahgre Valley Water User's Association, Chipeta Water Company,
and the Tri-/county Water Conservancy District were either monitored or
surveyed by Alpine. All work was conducted in the Uncompahgre
River Valley,
in Delta and Montrose Counties,
western Colorado. In all, 153
km of right-of-way were monitored during pipeline construction and 214 km of
15-m-wide right-of-way totaling approximately 800 acres were surveyed in
advance of construction. Sixteen sites and eight isolated finds were
recorded.
Chandler, Susan M., Jonathon C. Horn, and James L. Firor
1996 Archaeological Investigations in
Support of the Winter Water Replacement Phase of the Bureau of Reclamation's
Colorado River Quality Improvement Program, Lower Gunnison Basin Unit, Delta
and Montrose Counties, Colorado.
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Cultural Resource Inventory of Naval Oil Shale
Reserve Lands, Garfield County,
Colorado
Alpine conducted an intensive cultural resource inventory of Naval Oil
Shale Reserve (NOSR) tracts 1 and 3 during the 1995 and 1996 field seasons.
The 49,760-acre project area is in Garfield
County in western Colorado,
in the general vicinity of the towns of Rifle and Parachute. The NOSR project
area is particularly rugged, consisting of the Roan Cliffs and the Roan
Plateau. The Roan Plateau is relatively high in elevation and so is
substantially forested. Portions of the project area are particularly rugged
and covered with dense vegetation and, as a result, were excluded from
intensive inspection by archaeologists. Slopes in excess of 20 degrees, aspen
forests, certain mountain shrub communities, and areas extensively covered by
Gambel oak were excluded, for a total of 31,312 acres. In total, 18,448 acres
(9,057 acres in 1995; 9,391 acres in 1996) were intensively inventoried
during the 1995 and 1996 field seasons. The cultural resource inventory
resulted in the identification of 120 cultural resource sites, 5
paleontological locations, and 69 isolated finds. Prehistoric sites include
scatters of stone artifacts and one site with the remains of three brush
structures (wickiups). Euroamerican sites include the Rulison Oil Shale
Plant, which dates to the early part of the twentieth century, and several
possibly associated sites. Euroamerican sites atop the Roan Plateau are
primarily related to livestock grazing.
Reed, Alan D., and Jonathon C. Horn
1995 Report of the 1995 Cultural
Resource Inventory of Naval Oil Shale Reserve Lands, Garfield County, Colorado.
Tickner, Paul A., Alan D. Reed, and Jonathon C.
Horn
1996 Final Report of the Cultural
Resource Inventory of Naval Oil Shale Reserve Lands, Garfield County, Colorado.
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Cultural Resource Inventory of the Picket Wire
Canyonlands, Southeastern Colorado
In 1991, the United States Congress transferred management of 16,700 acres
of the U.S. Army's Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site in
southeastern Colorado to the
USDA Forest Service's Comanche National Grassland. As part of the transfer
legislation, Congress dictated that the area, referred to as Picket Wire
Canyonlands, be completely surveyed for archaeological resources. Alpine
conducted intensive cultural resource inventories of two adjacent tracts,
together comprising 7,150 acres, in 1993 and 1994. The surveys resulted in
the identification of 299 sites. Three sites, including one with cultural
remains, represent discoveries of fossilized bones, thought to date to the
Mesozoic era. The cultural resource sites comprise 263 aboriginal components
and 46 historic Euroamerican components. Most of the aboriginal sites are
thought to date between A.D. 200 and 1200, representing Early ad Middle
Ceramic period occupations. No Paleoindian components were found, and only a
few possible Archaic stage and protohistoric period
components were identified. The archaeological record of the Picket Wire
Canyonlands area is remarkable for the number and quality of rock art sits
and structural habitation sites. A total of 376 individual rock art panels,
containing 2,781 motifs, were recorded. Nearly all are petroglyphs.
Prehistoric structures recorded include walled rockshelters and stone foundations.
Most of the historic sites recorded are associated with late nineteenth
century settlement. Initial Euroamerican settlement of the canyon commenced
in the late 1860s. Many of the first settlers were Hispanic farmers and sheep
ranches; they were gradually replaced by Angloamerican cattle ranchers.
Alpine also prepared a National Register nomination for the Rourke Ranch, located in the project area.
Reed, Alan D., Jonathon C. Horn, Susan M. Chandler, James Firor, Rand
Greubel and M. Clark Pope
1995 Cultural Resource Inventory of a
Portion of the Picket Wire Canyonlands, Comanche National Grassland, Las
Animas and Otero Counties, Colorado.
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Cultural Resource Inventory of the Keystone-Sawpit
Transmission Line San
Miguel County,
Colorado
In September 1993, Alpine conducted a cultural resources inventory of the
Keystone-Sawpit Transmission Line, an existing transmission line scheduled
for rebuilding. The project area is in San Miguel
County and crosses a combination of private
patented mining claims and land administered by the Uncompahgre Basin
Resource Area, Montrose District of the Bureau of Land Management. The
inventory recorded five new sites: a historic artifact scatter, a machinery
mount, the Newmire/Vanadium townsite, the site
of a residence on the Primos No 1 Lode Mill Site,
and a cabin site related to placer mining. The previously recorded Rio Grande
Southern Railroad grade was revisited.
Horn, Jonathon C.
1993 Cultural Resource Inventory of the
Keystone-Sawpit Transmission Line, San Miguel County,
Colorado.
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Cultural Resource Inventories of the Ames-Rico
Transmission Line, Dolores and San
Miguel Counties
Colorado
During the 1993 field season, Alpine conducted cultural resources
inventories of the existing Ames to
Rico transmission line to be rebuilt or removed, a new alignment of the
transmission line route, and an electric service extension to a new home
site. The project area is in San Miguel
County and crosses a combination of private
patented mining claims and land administered by the Dolores
District of the San
Juan National Forest
and the Norwood District of the Uncompahgre
National Forest. Sixteen sites
and one historic isolated find were documented in the project area, including
six mining-related sites, a portion of the Ilium Flume that served the Ames
Power Plant, two historic roads, two segments of the Rio Grande Southern
Railroad, the remains of a railroad trestle, several prehistoric lithic
scatters, and two multicomponent historic and prehistoric sites.
Horn, Jonathon C.
1993 Cultural Resource Inventory of the
Ames-Trout Lake Section of the Ames-Rico Transmission Line and Reed Tie Line,
Uncompahgre National Forest, Norwood Ranger District, San Miguel County,
Colorado.
Horn, Jonathon C.
1993 Cultural Resource Inventory of the
Trout Lake-Rico Section of the Ames-Rico Transmission Line, San Juan and
Uncompahgre National Forests, Dolores and San Miguel Counties, Colorado.
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Cultural Resources Inventory and Mitigation for Western
Area Power Administration Curecanti-Blue Mesa-Salida 115kV Transmission Line
Access Roads Rehabilitation Project
During the fall of 1992 and spring of 1993, Alpine conducted a cultural
resource survey of approximately 241 km of access roads to Western's
Curecanti-Blue Mesa-Salida 115 kV transmission line. Western plans to upgrade
some of these existing access roads and construct some new access roads along
these transmission lines. The field survey resulted in the recording of 121
archaeological sites, 2 historic ditches, 89 isolated finds, the recording of
a new segment of a previously recorded railroad grade, and the reassessment
of 6 previously recorded archaeological sites.
Rood, Ronald J., with contributions by M. Clark Pope, Paul A. Tickner, and Carrie White
1993 Cultural Resources Inventory for
Western Area Power Administration's Curecanti-Blue Mesa-Salida 115 kV
Transmission Line Access Roads Rehabilitation Project.
Chandler, Susan M., and Alan D. Reed, with contributions by Ronald J. Rood,
Carole L. Graham, Jonathon C. Horn, and M. Clark Pope
1993 Addendum to Cultural Resources
Inventory for Western Area Power Administration's Curecanti-Blue Mesa-Salida
115 kV Transmission Line Access Roads Rehabilitation Project: the 1993 Field
Season.
During September and October 1993, Alpine conducted archaeological
investigations at 10 sites, all near the town of Gunnison,
Colorado, to mitigate the
affects of road improvement developments by the Western Area Power
Administration. Mitigative work consisted of test excavations, surface
artifact collection, and analysis of lithic raw material. Data collected from
the sites permitted refinement of the model of prehistoric use of nine of the
project sites and allowed for the formulation of recommendations concerning
site significance for two of the project sites.
Pope, M. Clark
1994 Cultural Resource Mitigation for
the Western Area Power Administration's Curecanti-Blue Mesa-Salida 115 kV
Transmission Line Access Roads Rehabilitation Project.
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Cultural Resource Inventory of Existing Hydropower
Penstock Lines Supplying the Bridal Veil Powerstation,
San Miguel
County, Colorado
In August 1992, Alpine conducted a cultural resources inventory of 9 km of
penstock lines and the Lewis Lake
Dam that supply the Bridal Veil Powerstation. Three sites and one isolated find were
recorded: 5SM2497, the Bridal veil penstock system including dams on Blue
Lake and Mud Lake, headgates on Bridal Veil Creek
and a tributary of Bridal Veil Creek, and the portal bored into the bottom of
Blue lake; 5SM2498, the Lewis Lake Dam; 5SM2499, the site of the Blue Lake
pumping station; and 5SM2500, a mining audit recorded as an isolated
find.
Horn, Jonathon C.
1992 Cultural Resource Inventory of
Existing Hydropower Penstock Lines Supplying the Bridal Veil Powerstation, Uncompahgre National Forest, Norwood Ranger
District, San Miguel County, Colorado.
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Hovenweep Resource Protection Zone Class III
Cultural Resource Inventory, Montezuma
County, Colorado
and San Juan County,
Utah
The Hovenweep Resource Protection Zone (Hovenweep RPZ) comprises 4,090
acres surrounding or adjacent to four units of Hovenweep
National Monument in southwestern
Colorado and southeastern Utah.
A Class III cultural resources inventory of the Hovenweep RPZ was conducted
in October and November of 1990 by Alpine. The survey resulted in the
recordation of 372 archaeological sites and 710 isolated finds. The majority
of the sites are ascribed to the Anasazi of the Pueblo II and Pueblo III
periods, although fewer numbers of Archaic, historic Native American, and
earlier Anasazi sites were discovered in addition to a substantial number of
prehistoric sites of unknown cultural affiliation.
Greubel, Rand A.
1991 Hovenweep Resource Protection Zone
Class III Cultural Resource Inventory, Montezuma County, Colorado and San
Juan County, Utah.
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A Cultural Resource Inventory of the Busted Arm
Timber Sale and the Bull Pond Timber Sale and the Reevaluation of the Lindsay
Spring Site, San Miguel County, Colorado
In June 1991, Alpine conducted a cultural resource inventory of the Busted
Arm and Bull Pond Conifer Timber Sales, which together comprised
approximately 780 acres in the Norwood District of the Uncompahgre
National Forest in San Miguel
County, Colorado. Twelve sites and 24 isolated finds were discovered and
recorded; one previously recorded site was re-recorded; and another site was
monitored and photographed.
Greubel, Rand A., Amy Jo Knowles, and Jonathon C. Horn
1991 A Cultural Resource Inventory of
the Busted Arm Timber Sale and the Bull Pond Timber Sale, and a Reevaluation
of the Lindsey Spring Site (5SM139), Uncompahgre National Forest, Norwood
District, San Miguel County, Colorado.
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Synthesis of Cultural Resource Investigations in the
Rocky Point Pumped Storage Project Facilities Area and Proposed Spoil Sites, Gunnison
County, Colorado
In 1990, Alpine compiled and synthesized all of the known cultural
resources data for the Rocky Point Pumped Storage Project Facilities Area and
spoil area alternatives, on the Taylor River District of the Gunnison
National Forest. The potential effects of planned project developments upon
the 23 recorded archaeological sites and 18 isolated finds in the project
area are assessed and recommendations for mitigation of potential adverse
effects to significant cultural resources are made.
Reed, Alan D., and Jonathon C. Horn
1990 Synthesis of Cultural Resource
Investigations in the Rocky Point Pumped Storage Project Facilities Area and
Proposed Spoil Sites, Gunnison County,
Colorado.
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Kern River 2003 Expansion Project:
Cultural Resource Inventory
During the Spring and
Summer of 2001, Alpine Archaeological Consultants, Inc. conducted a cultural
resource inventory of the proposed 2003 Kern River Expansion Project pipeline corridor in Utah. The
work was conducted at the request of Williams Gas Pipeline (Williams). Over much of its extent, the 2003 Kern River Expansion Project pipeline will be built
25 feet west of the Kern River
Pipeline. The Kern River pipeline passes from southwestern Wyoming through Utah and Nevada to Bakersfield, California. In Utah, the proposed pipeline extends northeast to
southwest across the state, from the border crossing southwest of Evanston, Wyoming, to the Nevada border crossing near Gunlock, northwest of St. George, Utah. In all, the pipeline looping
in Utah includes 341.43 miles of 36-inch diameter
pipeline. A new compressor station
with an associated access road and transmission line will also be constructed
in Salt Lake
City. A
13.24-mile-long alternate route was also inventoried in the vicinity of Pinnacle Pass in Millard and Beaver counties.
This report details the findings of the cultural resource inventory
for the Utah segment of the proposed pipeline loop. The intensive cultural resource inventory
documented 260 archaeological sites (both historic and prehistoric) and 73
isolated finds. Sites were evaluated in terms of significance and potential
impacts from planned construction. Potential
viewshed impacts to 34 National Register-eligible historic sites were also
analyzed. General treatment
recommendations were formulated to mitigate potential direct and indirect
impacts.
Backer, Anna, Alan D.
Reed, Rand
Greubel, Jack E. Pfertsh, and Brandon Sybrowsky
2001 Cultural
Resource Inventory and Reevaluation for the 2003 Kern River Expansion Project: Beaver, Iron, Juab,
Millard, Morgan, Salt Lake, Summit, Utah,
and Washington
Counties, Utah.
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Cultural Resource Inventory of Browns
Park Road, Daggett
County, Utah
In October and November 1999, Alpine conducted a cultural resource
inventory of 31.4 km (832 acres) along the Browns
Park Road from Red Creek to the Colorado
State line in Daggett
County, Utah. The Browns
Park Road inventory resulted in the
identification of 26 new sites and the reevaluation of 6 sites. Of that
total, 5 are historic sites, 21 are historic linear sites, and the remaining
6 are prehistoric sites. In addition, two historic properties outside of the
proposed corridor were photographically documented and historically
researched.
Pfertsh, Jack E.
2000 Cultural Resource Inventory of the
Browns Park Road, Daggett County Road 1364 from Red Creek To The Colorado
State Line, Daggett County, Utah.
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Cultural Resource Inventory of the Provo
River
Restoration Project, Wasatch County,
Utah
In November 1999, Alpine conducted an intensive cultural resource
inventory of the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission's Provo
River Restoration Project Area. The project area consists of a corridor of
varying widths along both sides of the Provo
River in Wasatch
County, Utah. It extends a
distance of approximately 9 km and encompasses 779 acres. The cultural
resource inventory resulted in the recordation of six historic sites,
including a historic log structure, historic concrete foundations, a historic
road segment present on the 1869 GLO map, historic outbuildings, and the
levees along the Provo River
and associated headgates and diversion dam
features.
Eckman, Jason C.
2000 Cultural Resource Inventory of the
Provo River Restoration Project, Wasatch County,
Utah.
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Cultural Resource Inventory of Mid-America Pipeline
Company's Proposed Rocky Mountain Expansion Project, Utah
and Colorado
From 1998 through 1999, Alpine and our subcontractors conducted cultural
resource inventories of the proposed Mid-America Pipeline Company's Rocky
Mountain Expansion loop pipeline. The entire route of the 660-km-long
pipeline passes from northwestern New Mexico
through southwestern Colorado
and southeastern Utah into
northwestern Colorado and
finally terminates north of the Green River in
northeastern Utah. In addition
to the intensive inventory 61-m-wide pipeline corridor itself, temporary use
areas, access roads, and ancillary facilities were examined. In all, 354
prehistoric and historic sites and 150 isolated finds were documented in the Utah
and Colorado portions of the
project area. Site components identified include Paleoindian, Archaic, Fremont,
Anasazi, Gateway, Ute, and Navajo archaeological sites and historic sites
related to railroads and wagon roads, homesteads, and gilsonite mining.
Archaeology in conjunction with geomorphological studies have
also enabled the age and depositional environment of particular soil units to
be better understood.
Horn, Jonathon C., Susan M. Chandler, Kimberly Redman, Diana L. Langdon, Diane
Perry, and Alan D. Reed
1998 Cultural Resource Inventory of
Mid-America Pipeline Company's Proposed Rocky Mountain Expansion Project:
Colorado Part 1 of 2: Mesa, Garfield, and Rio Blanco Counties Northwestern
Colorado.
Horn, Jonathon C., Kimberly L. Redman, Jerry Fetterman,
Linda Honeycutt, Diana L. Langdon, Diane Perry,
and Alan D. Reed
1998 Cultural Resource Inventory of Mid-America
Pipeline Company's Proposed Rocky Mountain Expansion Project. Colorado Part 2 of 3: Dolores and San Miguel Counties, Colorado.
Horn, Jonathon C., Kimberly Redman, Jerry Fetterman,
Linda Honeycutt, Diana L. Langdon, Diane Perry,
and Alan D. Reed
1998 Cultural Resource Inventory of
Mid-America Pipeline Company's Proposed Rocky Mountain Expansion Project
Colorado Part 3 of 3: La Plata and Montezuma Counties, Colorado.
Horn, Jonathon C., Kimberly Redman, Diana L. Langdon, and Alan D.
Reed
1998 Cultural Resource Inventory of
Mid-America Pipeline Company's Proposed Rocky Mountain Expansion Project. Utah Part 1 of 3: Grand County, Utah.
Horn, Jonathon C., Kimberly Redman, Diana L. Langdon, Diane
Perry, and Alan D. Reed
1998 Cultural Resource Inventory of
Mid-America Pipeline Company's Proposed Rocky Mountain Expansion Project. Utah Part 2 of 3: Uintah and Daggett Counties, Utah.
Horn, Jonathon C., Kimberly Redman, Diana L. Langdon, Diane
Perry, and Alan D. Reed
1998 Cultural Resource Inventory of
Mid-America Pipeline Company's Proposed Rocky Mountain Expansion Project. Utah: Part 3 of 3, San Juan County, Utah.
Davis, James P.
1999 Mid-America Pipeline Company's
Rocky Mountain Expansion Project Addendum Number 1: Cultural Resource Inventory
of Pipeline Reroutes San Juan, Grand, Uintah, and Daggett Counties,
Utah.
Davis, James P.
1999 Cultural Resource Inventory of a
Burn Area in Northwestern
Colorado and Northeastern Utah.
Davis, James P.
1999 Cultural Resource Inventory of
Access Roads, Temporary Use Areas, and Borrow Pits Associated with
Mid-America Pipeline Company's Rocky Mountain Expansion Project San Juan, Grand, Uintah, and Daggett Counties, Utah.
Davis, James P.
1999 Cultural Resource Inventories of
Access Roads, Reroutes, and Temporary Use Areas associated with the
Construction of The Mid-America Pipeline Company's Rocky Mountain Loop
Expansion Pipeline - Garfield, La Plata, Montezuma and Rio Blanco Counties,
Colorado.
Sybrowsky, Brandon
2000 Cultural Resource Inventory of the
Moab Canyon Explosion Area, Grand County, Utah.
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Cultural Resource Inventory of Utah
State Road 36, Tooele
County, Utah
In July and December 1998, Alpine conducted a Selective Reconnaissance
Level Survey of historic structures and a cultural resource inventory of 18
km (1,248 acres) along State Road 36 between U.S. Interstate 80 and the city
of Tooele within Tooele
County, Utah. Three
archaeological/historical sites were recorded within the project area during
the cultural resource inventory. The Selective Reconnaissance Level Survey
resulted in the identification of 19 historic structural properties.
Eckman, Jason C., and Jonathon C. Horn
1998 Cultural Resource Inventory of Utah State Road 36 U.S. Interstate 80 to Tooele, Tooele County, Utah.
Horn, Jonathon C.
1998 Selective Reconnaissance Level
Survey of Utah State Road 36, U.S. Interstate 80 to Tooele, Tooele County,
Utah.
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Cultural Resource Inventory of Western Area Power
Administration Access Roads, Rio Blanco
County, Colorado
and Uintah County,
Utah
In March 1997, Alpine conducted an intensive cultural resource inventory
of 168 km of existing access roads to and along Western Power
Administration's Artesia-Rangely 138 kV transmission line in Rio Blanco
County, Colorado, and Uintah County, Utah; the Flaming Gorge-Vernal #1 138 kV
transmission line in Uintah County, Utah; and the Flaming Gorge-Vernal #3 138
kV transmission line, in Uintah and Daggett counties, Utah. Corridors
15-m-wide, centered on each access road, were intensively examined for
cultural resources. The inventory resulted in the documentation of eight
cultural resource sites and four isolated finds. Five sites are prehistoric;
the remaining three sites comprise a historic ditch, a historic wagon road,
and a well pad dating from the early twentieth-century. All of the isolated
finds consist of prehistoric lithic artifacts.
Greubel, Rand A., with contributions by Alan D. Reed, and James L. Firor
1997 A Cultural Resource Inventory of
Access Roads for the Artesia-Rangely, Flaming Gorge-Vernal #1, and Flaming
Gorge-Vernal #3 138-kV Transmission Lines Rio Blanco County, Colorado and
Uintah County, Utah.
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Grand Resource Area Class I Cultural Resource
Inventory
Alpine prepared a Class I Cultural Resource Overview for the Bureau of
Land Management's Grand Resource Area. The overview synthesizes historic and
prehistoric data in the context of 10 physiographic subdivisions. Its purpose
is to provide information to address archaeological management concerns and
enable long-term preservation planning and programming for the Grand Resource
Area. The distribution of generalized soil units, lithic tool stone sources,
big game species, and arable lands is examined, and a paleoenvironmental
model for the project area is provided. All major projects conducted in the
Grand Resource Area that have made substantive contributions to the
understanding of human use and occupation of the region are summarized. The
synthesis of prehistoric data relies on archaeological data recovered from excavations
and from major survey projects. Site-level data were not analyzed. The
aboriginal culture history of the Grand Resource Area is divided into four
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