2023-04-19_PERMIT FILE - C1981010 (97)

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4.1.1 Archeological Resources Of the two archeological sites (5MF288 and 5MF290, refer to Section 2.9 and Appendix K) as surveyed and catalogued by Breternitz (1972), only one (5MF288) will be disturbed by mining activities. This site has, in fact, been destroyed already by the construction of sediment control dams in Johnson drainage. The Craig District Bureau of Land Management has approved the survey of these sites (refer to Appendix K) and no further mitigation was necessary prior to disturbance. The survey conducted for Trapper Mine during the summer of 1980 by Archeological Services, Laramie, Wyoming, identified five sites on or adjacent to the proposed mine plan area. (Refer to Sec- tion 2.9 and Appendix K.) Only three of these sites (sites 5MF945, 5MF946 and 5MF947) will be dis- turbed by mining activities. None of these sites were considered worthy of testing for nomination to the National Register and Archeological Services (1980) stated that no further work was needed for them. Both sites 5MF946 and 5MF947 were disturbed in the spring of 1981 with topsoil salvage advance in Ashmore Pit. Site 5MF945 was disturbed by mining activities during the 1993-1997 permit period. This site was inventoried and recorded and no further work was proposed. (Refer to part IX of Appendix K for more detail). An archeological site previously identified by Breternitz in 1972 as site 5MF290 and resurveyed in 1980 by Archeological Services as site 5MF949, was recommended by Archeological Services for nomination to the National Register. (Refer to Section 2.9 and Appendix K for more detail.) This site is outside the proposed mine plan area but inside the proposed permit area. However, the site was not considered eligible to the National Register of Historic Places on August 27, 1982 by the State Historic Preservation Officer (Appendix K, Part I). Site 5MF948 is a pictograph on the outcrop of the Twenty Mile Sandstone on the south side of the Williams Fork Mountains. This site is outside the proposed mine plan area but within the permit area. The site was determined eligible to the National Register of Historic Places by the State Historic Pres- ervation Officer on August 27, 1982 (Appendix K, Part I). The site lies approximately 700 feet south of the closest proposed mining disturbance. Due to this distance from the mining area, the location of the site on the Twenty Mile Sandstone and the relatively inaccessible location, the site will not be disturbed by Trapper Mine Operations. Sites 5MF9891, 5MF9892 and 5MF9894: SW of Sec. 29-T6N-R91W. These sites consist of a complex of prehistoric camps. Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc. recommended the sites as eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. These sites may be disturbed with pit advancement in I Pit. The sites will be mitigated before any mining occurs in the area. No other archeological sites have been recorded within or adjacent (500' or closer) to the proposed mine plan area. 4-3