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INTRODUCTION <br /> At the request of Uinta Mining, LLC and the Colorado State Land Board, Office of <br /> Solid Minerals, Grand River Institute (GRI)conducted a Class III (intensive) cultural <br /> resources inventory for a proposed affected area for mining sand and gravel in Moffat <br /> County, Colorado. Approximately 127 acres of State Board land was inventoried. All work <br /> was performed under State of Colorado Permit No. 75594. The project was completed by <br /> Carl Conner(Principal Investigator and Field Supervisor), Barbara Davenport, Natalia <br /> Conner, and Nicole Inman. The Class III cultural resources intensive(pedestrian) inventory <br /> was conducted between the 9`h and 11`'of August 2019. <br /> This project was conducted and completed to comply with State legislation governing <br /> the identification and protection of cultural resources on publicly owned lands. Accordingly, <br /> this survey was done to meet requirements of CRS 24-80-401-411: Title 24 Government- <br /> State: State History, Archives, and Emblems: Article 80 State History, Archives, and <br /> Emblems: Part 4. Consequently, the purpose of this cultural resources investigation was to <br /> identify previously recorded resources within the proposed project areas that maybe <br /> adversely affected by the proposed action. These laws are concerned with the identification, <br /> evaluation, and protection of fragile, non-renewable evidence of human activity, occupation, <br /> and endeavor reflected in districts, sites, structures, artifacts, objects,ruins, works of art, <br /> architecture, and natural features that were of importance in human events. Such resources <br /> tend to be localized and highly sensitive to disturbance. <br /> LOCATION OF THE PROJECT AREA <br /> The project is located approximately ten miles east of Blue Mountain, Colorado, in <br /> Moffat County. The block inventoried area occurs on State Board land within T. 4 N., R. 101 <br /> W., Section 36; 6' P.M. (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 southwest portion of the fold belt which <br /> consists of a number of large anticlines—such as Skull Creek—and intervening synclines. <br /> Other well known anticlines in the region include Blue Mountain, Cross Mountain, and <br /> Danforth Hills. Geologically, it began to rise during the Paleocene and separated the Green <br /> River Basin into two parts. Its upward movement was reactivated during the Tertiary and <br /> since then most of the Tertiary-age rocks have been eroded away(Young and Young 1977: <br /> 57). However, within the study area, the bedrock is Cretaceous age Mancos Shale Formation <br /> consisting of shale and sandstone which intertongues with the Frontier and Mowry Members. <br /> 1 <br />