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INTRODUCTION <br />As authorized by the Bureau of Land Management Little Snake Field Office (BLM- <br />LSFO), Grand River Institute (GRI) was contracted by Trapper Mining, Inc. to complete a <br />Class III cultural resources inventory for a lease modification area (752 acres) in Moffat <br />County, Colorado. The project consists of the survey of 752 acres in two block areas located <br />on private land. A prefield check in and files search were performed on the 19`h of August <br />2013, and field work was conducted between the 19`h of August and the 4`h of September <br />2013. Curtis Martin was responsible for the fieldwork and site descriptions. He was assisted <br />in the field by Holly Shelton and assisted with site descriptions by Ashley Dieterich. Carl <br />Conner (Principal Investigator) oversaw the project and Conner, Martin, Barbara Davenport, <br />and Dieterich composed the final report. <br />The inventory was undertaken to ensure the project's compliance with Federal and <br />State legislation governing the identification and protection of cultural resources. The <br />purposes of this investigation were to identify cultural resources within the areas likely to be <br />affected by the lease modification, to evaluate these sites' eligibility for listing in the National <br />Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and to make management recommendations for those <br />determined to be eligible or potentially eligible. <br />The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321), the <br />Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), and the Archaeological <br />Resources Protection Act of 1979 (U.S.C. 470aa et seq., as amended) are concerned with the <br />identification, evaluation, and protection of fragile, non-renewable evidences of human <br />activity, occupation and endeavor reflected in districts, sites, structures, artifacts, objects, <br />ruins, works of art, architecture, and natural features that were of importance in human <br />events. Such resources tend to be localized and highly sensitive to disturbance. <br />LOCATION OF THE PROJECT AREA <br />The project is located approximately 6.0 miles southeast of Craig, Colorado, in the <br />Williams Fork Mountains of Moffat County. The block area is located within Township 5 <br />North, Range 90 West, Sections 4, 8 and 9 and Township 6 North, Range 90 West, Section <br />33; 6`h PM (Figure 1). <br />ENVIRONMENT <br />The project area occurs within the Axial Fold Belt, a low arch between the Uinta and <br />the White River anticlines (or uplifts). It is in the central -east portion of the fold belt and at <br />the southern boundary of a large anticline -- the Axial Basin Anticline -- and intervening <br />synclines. Other well known anticlines in the region include Blue Mountain, Cross <br />