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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 Williams Fork Land Company to <br />complete a Class III cultural resources inventory for a block survey area in Moffat County, <br />Colorado. The project consists of the survey of an 1752 acre block area (divided) located on <br />private land. A prefield check in and files search were performed on the Ft of May 2014, and <br />field work was conducted between the 5`h and the 19`h of May 2014. Carl Conner (Principal <br />Investigator) oversaw the project. Curtis Martin, Lucas Piontkowski, and Holly Shelton were <br />responsible for the field work, and Conner, Curtis Martin, Barbara Davenport, and Hannah <br />Mills 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 block area, to <br />evaluate these sites' eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), <br />and to make management recommendations for those determined to be eligible or potentially <br />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 5.0 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 3, 4, and 10, and Township 6 North, Range 90 West, <br />Sections 27, 28, 33, 34, and 35; 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 />Mountain, and Danforth Hills. Geologically, it began to rise during the Paleocene and <br />