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<br />Dr. Steven F. Mehls, brings extensive expertise in cultural <br />resources management, resource planning and Western history to the <br />proposed effort. He has a doctorate in the History of the American <br />West and the United States from the University of Colorado where he <br />studied with Professor Robert G. Athearn, one of the leading <br />scholars of the West. Mehls has more than ten years experience in <br />cultural resources management as well as graduate level coursework <br />in the field. As a historian for the Bureau of Land Management he <br />prepared two award winning class I studies. As a member of a <br />Stearns-Roger study team he did the historic sections of <br />comprehensive cultural resources management plans for five <br />U.S. Army bases throughout Utah on a contract administered by the <br />National Park Service. Mehls also authored or co-authored three of <br />the four regional historic Resource Protection Planning Process <br />(RP3) studies for the Colorado Preservation Office. He has <br />prepared or participated in the preparation of determinations of <br />eligibility for the Uintah Railway, the historic portion of the <br />Pinyon Canyon Maneuver Site in Colorado, and an historic survey and <br />nomination project for Louisville, Colorado, for the Colorado <br />Preservation Office and Colorado Department of Natural Resources, <br />Mined Land Reclamation Division. He was principal investigator for <br />the Historic Resource Study of Dinosaur National Monument, <br />including a multiple resource, multiple state nomination finished <br />recently. As part of that project he took the National Park <br />Service's short course on the National Register and survey. He <br />also acted as principal investigator for the Canyonlands, Arches, <br />Natural Bridges Historic Resource Study, the Grand Teton National <br />Park Historic American Engineering Record Survey during which he <br />supervised two field crews, and the Iowa 3 County Survey. In the <br />area of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal he was historian for the <br />proposed new Denver, Colorado, regional airport environmental <br />studies and has been project historian on a survey of the Lowry <br />Landfill and Front Range Airport. His varied experiences have <br />caused him to record and/or evaluate more than 3,000 buildings and <br />structures over his more than ten years experience. His <br />14 <br />