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Cultural Resource Re-Visitation Form Resource Number: 5MF.4008 Temporary Resource Number: Page 2 of 3 13. Threats to Resource: Water Erosion Wind Erosion Grazing Neglect Vandalism Recreation Construction Other (specify): 14. Existing Protection: None Marked Fenced Patrolled Access controlled Other (specify): Colowyo is avoiding the site. OAHP is requiring a professional archaeologist to conduct regular revisits to assess the effectiveness of avoidance measures. Comments: 15. Recorder’s Management Recommendations: The site should continue to be avoided by any proposed mining related activities. 16. Known Collections, Reports, or Interviews: Karpinski, Mark and Jonathan Dugmore 2015 Cultural Resource Site Assessments for Western Fuels-Colorado, Colowyo Coal Company’s Collom Expansion Project, Moffat County, Colorado. Tetra Tech. Submitted to Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. Copies available through Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. Karpinski, Elizabeth, Cody Haisley, and Mark Karpinski 2019 Cultural Resource Site Assessments for Western Fuels-Colorado, Colowyo Coal Company’s Collom Expansion Project, Moffat County, Colorado. Tetra Tech. Submitted to Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. Copies available through Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. Lowe, James A., Bruce R. McClelland, Mark Karpinski, and Elizabeth Karpinski 2006 A Class III Cultural Resource Inventory for Colowyo Coal Company’s Collom Mine Project, Moffat and Rio Blanco Counties, Colorado. TRC Mariah Associates. Submitted to Bureau of Land Management, Little Snake River Field Office. Copies available through Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. 17. Site Description/Update: Site 5MF.4008 was originally recorded in 1995 by Metcalf Archaeological Consultants for the Colowyo Coal Company Lease and Exploration Areas: Class III Cultural Resource Inventory project. The site consists of a historic homestead and a prehistoric component of two lithic flakes. As originally reported, the homestead is composed of three standing buildings (Features 1, 2, and 4) and two ruins (Feature 3 and 5). The homestead is associated with George W. Wright who patented the land in 1920. Feature 1 is a milled lumber outhouse. Feature 2 is a log cabin that was used as a storage shed or workshop. Feature 3 is the remains of a stick-built brick and wood house that appears to have burned down sometime in the modern era. Feature 4 is a pump house with an electric pump. Feature 5 is the remains of a small log building that is theorized to be an outhouse. The generalized associated historic artifact scatter consists of bottle and window glass, aluminum cans, ceramic fragments, wire nails, and an assortment of domestic items. Several corrals and fences occur throughout the site along with a few utility poles and a metal gasoline storage drum. The site has been revisited since the original recordation. It was revisited in 2005 by TRC as part of the Collom Mine Expansion Class III Inventory project and in 2015 by Tetra Tech as part of the Collom Mine Expansion Site Assessment project. The 2015 revisit found significant changes to the site, but the integrity was not impacted by the changes. In 2005, TRC revisited the site as part of the Collom Mine Expansion Class III Inventory project. The revisit report noted that the integrity of the site had changed very little since it was originally recorded. Each of the recorded historic era features was relocated and the historic and prehistoric artifact scatters were observed to be as they were reported in 1995. Minor condition changes included the door to the cabin (Feature 2) was wedged open and minor weathering had occurred on the exterior of the structures. In 2015, Tetra Tech revisited the site as part of the Collom Mine Expansion Site Assessment project. Features 1 and 3 appeared to be in similar condition as originally reported; however, the condition of Features 2, 4, and 5 had changed. The birdcage shown in 2005 site form photographs was not relocated. The electric pump housed inside Feature 4 appears to have been removed since 2005. Feature 5 could not be relocated during the revisit. Failure to relocate the feature was likely due to a lack of description of where the feature was originally recorded and dense ground cover. Two significant changes to the site were noted. A large bermed earthen cattle pond had been constructed at the southern end of the property southwest of the pump house (Feature 4). The pond does not directly impact any of the recorded features nor does it appear to have impacted the prehistoric and historic artifact scatters. A pit had been dug in the west-central part of the site at the entrance to the large field. Its function is unknown, but it has not directly