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Cultural Resource Re -Visitation Form <br />Resource Number: 5MF.3996 Temporary Resource Number: <br />12. Condition (describe): The cattle grazing activity along the eastern cutbank has significantly eroded the sediments <br />in that portion of the site, but no evidence that the impacts affected a potential cultural manifestation were observed. <br />Overall site integrity remains unchanged from previous recordation. <br />13. Threats to Resource: ❑ Water Erosion ❑ Wind Erosion ® Grazing ❑ Neglect ❑Vandalism <br />® Recreation ® Construction ❑ Other (specify): <br />14. Existing Protection: ❑ None ❑ Marked ❑ Fenced ❑ Patrolled ❑ Access controlled <br />® Other (specify): <br />Comments: Colowyo is avoiding the site. OAHP is requiring a professional archaeologist conduct regular <br />revisits to assess the effectiveness of avoidness measures. <br />15. Recorder's Management Recommendations: <br />The site should continue to be avoided pending additional subsurface testing to determine whether or not subsurface <br />cultural material is present at the site. <br />16. Known Collections, Reports, or Interviews: <br />Most Recent Report: <br />A Class III Cultural Resource Inventory For Colowyo Coal Company's Collom Mine Project, Moffat and Rio Blanco <br />Counties, Colorado prepared by TRC Mariah Associates in 2006. <br />17. Site Description/Update: <br />Site 5MF.3996 was originally recorded in 1995 by Metcalf Archaeological Consultants for the Colowyo Coal Company <br />Lease and Exploration Areas: Class III Cultural Resource Inventory project. The recorders reported the site as <br />containing three areas of burned bone and charcoal which were eroding out of the eastern and western cutbanks of the <br />West Fork of Jubb Creek. The site was revisited in 2005 by TRC as part of the Collom Mine Expansion project. They <br />did not relocate the datum; however eight large mammal bones were discovered in addition to light staining and a <br />single piece of charcoal. <br />In 2015, Tetra Tech revisited the site as part of the current undertaking. During the revisit, none of the previously <br />reported charcoal, stained sediments, or charred or uncharred bone was observed. The site has been overgrown and <br />the road has been unused in recent years with significant vegetation growth within its grade. One vertebrate and one <br />ilium of a medium sized ungulate, likely a deer, were found in the southern end of the site. The bones are unmodified <br />and are likely due to a recent natural death and not associated with any potential cultural manifestation. No staining <br />was identified and it is still undetermined whether the site is cultural or natural in origin. The eastern cutbank appears to <br />have been heavily impacted by cattle grazing activities including hoof prints, trampled vegetation, and manure piles. No <br />evidence was observed that the cattle grazing impacts have adversely affected any of the originally reported potential <br />cultural manifestations. Overall, site integrity remains fair. <br />18. Photograph Numbers: 114-520317:5-6 <br />Digital files at: On file at Tetra Tech's Salt Lake City, Utah Office <br />Page 2 of 3 <br />