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manipulations to enhance and explore the visual data should be employed in order to isolate <br />and emphasize pictographic elements. Extremely faded and sometimes virtually invisible <br />figures are occasionally newly identified during this type of image processing. <br />It is also strongly recommended that any proposed plans for expansion of the mining <br />activities into the canyon in which the site is located be curtailed and the entire canyon area <br />be avoided by any surface disturbing activities or blasting. <br />Site 5MF7540.2 is a segment of the historic Craig to Pagoda Road that passes <br />through the project area. A previous segment of the road, not within the current project area, <br />was recorded as 5MF7540.1 by SWCA in 2011, however no description of the resource, its <br />location, or evaluation had been entered into Compass at the time of this writeup. The <br />segment of north -south trending road documented by the current project entails a section of <br />existing dirt road measuring approximately 0.5 miles in length. <br />The site is in the Transitional Zone at an elevation ranging from 7080 to 7240 feet. <br />The road follows the course of Deal Gulch, an intermittent blue line drainage which flows <br />into the Williams Fork River 3.3 miles south of the road segment's southern end. The nearest <br />permanent water source is the Mine Spring, 0.4 miles to the south. The surrounding hills are <br />vegetated with dense serviceberry and Gamble oak, with an understory of sagebrush, yarrow, <br />mules ears, snakeweed, manzanita, lupine, aster, globe mallow, snap dragons, mint, sego lily, <br />wild rose, wild pea, saw grass, thistle, and Indian paintbrush. The residual and alluvial soils <br />consist of grayish -brown to brown, clay loam and sandy loam of undetermined, but <br />significant, depth --of at least 2m in the cut banks of the road and drainage. The area is <br />currently used for cattle grazing and coal mining. <br />The Craig to Pagoda Road is depicted, and named, on the 1915 GLO plat. No <br />indications of the former historic road bed, or any associated historic features, could be found <br />during the current survey project. <br />Evaluation and Management Recommendations <br />The site retains integrity of Location; the road remains where it was originally <br />constructed. It retains integrity of Design; the site was chosen and designed for efficiency <br />and ease of use for transportation. The site retains integrity of Setting; the surrounding <br />environment is generally representative of the setting during the site's period of significance. <br />In that the road has experienced disturbance from modern upgrades and use, it lacks integrity <br />of Materials, Workmanship and Feeling. The site retains integrity of Association as the 1915 <br />GLO map shows the road servicing two named historic properties. <br />The entire extent of the resource remains unknown and it has not been fully <br />documented. Thus, the entire resource is evaluated as needs data until recorded in full. The <br />segment recorded during the present project is not associated to a specific person or time <br />32 <br />