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feeling, and association, and a) that are associated with events that have made a <br />significant contribution to the broad patterns of history; or b) that are associated with <br />the lives of persons significant in our past; or c) that embody the distinctive <br />characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or that represent the work <br />of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a significant and <br />distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or d) that <br />have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. <br />In order for a site to be listed in the NRNP, it must not only be shown to be significant <br />under the National Register criteria, but it also must have integrity. Integrity is the ability of <br />the resource to convey significance. If significance has been established, it is necessary to <br />determine if the resource retains the integrity for which it is significant. Within the concept <br />of integrity, the National Register criteria recognizes seven aspects or qualities that, in <br />various combinations, define integrity. The seven aspects of integrity include: Location, <br />Design, Setting, Materials, Workmanship, Feeling and Association. To retain integrity, a <br />property will always possess several, and usually most, of the aspects. <br />FIELD METHODS <br />A 100 percent intensive (Class III) cultural resource survey of the study area, which <br />encompassed 752 acres in 2 blocks for lease modification, was conducted by two <br />archaeologists walking transects spaced at 15 meter intervals to cover the block area. The <br />field archaeologists worked from USGS 7.5 minute series maps. A total of approximately <br />752 acres of private land (fee surface/federal minerals) was subjected to intensive inventory. <br />Cultural resources were sought as surface exposures and were characterized as sites or <br />isolated finds. A site is the locus of previous (50 year minimum) human activity at which the <br />preponderance of the evidence suggests either one-time diagnostically interpretable use or <br />repeated use over time, or multiple classes of activities. For example: a) Isolated thermal <br />features such as hearths are to be designated as sites, even though they may represent a single <br />event, due to the interpretable function of such utilization and the potential for chronometric <br />and economic data recovery; b) Single rock art panels are to be designated as sites due to the <br />interpretable nature of such an event and the potential diagnostic value of the motif; c) <br />Isolated human burials; or d) Loci exhibiting ground stone and flaked stone in association. <br />An isolate refers to one or more culturally modified objects not found in the context <br />of a site as defined above. Note that this definition makes no reference to an absolute <br />quantitative standard for the site isolate distinction. For example: a) A discrete concentration <br />of flakes from the same material regardless of the number of artifacts present likely <br />represents a single, random event and is properly designated as an isolate; or b) A ceramic <br />pot bust is to be recorded as an isolate, regardless of the number of sherds that remain. <br />15 <br />