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4 <br />Surve Results <br />Drill Site A <br />This site is located amid a small park of native meadow grasses and <br />covers a few acres on the west edge of the ridge. This park Is surrounded <br />by aspen trees. There is nothing conspicuous about the location, and it <br />would hold a low probability for prehistoric ar historic site locations. <br />No cultural resources were encountered. <br />Drill Site B <br />This site is located on an outcrop of volcanic stone at the extreme <br />south edge of the ridge. The drill site is situated amid small sagebrush <br />and offers an impressive view over the valley of IJorth Thompsc,n Creel. <br />Elk and deer pellets were abundant at the site. No evidence for any cul- <br />tural resources was found. <br />'Drill Site C <br />This site is located on the east edge of the ridge amid a typical park <br />of montane meadow grass surrounded by aspen and fir. There is nothing <br />conspicuous about the location, and it holds a low probability as the site <br />of prehistoric or historic occupation. No evidence of cultural resources <br />was encountered. <br />Drill Site D <br />This site is located on the southeast edge of the ridge amid a typical <br />park of montane meadow grass surrounded by aspen and fir. Like the other <br />sites. there is nothing conspicuous about the location, and it is very un- <br />likely that it witnessed any historic or prehistoric human occupations. <br />As with the other sites, no evidence of cultural resources was encountered. <br />Access Roads <br />As indicated in Figure 2, one major access road extends roughly one and <br />one half miles from the Forest Service boundary in Spring Gulch to Drill <br />Site C. Additional access roads extend south from Drill Site C toward <br />Drill Site D. Altogether there are between three and four miles of road <br />associated with this project. All of these roads traverse typical mon- <br />tane environment consisting of spruce and aspen forests mixed with small <br />grassy parks. The only evidence of human activity in the area is in the <br />form of surface subsidence from old mines which extend into the ridge <br />from Spring Gulch. These features appear as large depressions of up to <br />roughly fifty meters in diameter and ten or more meters in depth. Several <br />of these features occur near, but not in, the right-of-way of the access <br />road leading up from Spring Gulch. They are, however, in no way asso- <br />ciated with cultural resources which could be impacted by the proposed <br />road. They derive from old coal mine shafts presumably located hundreds <br />of feet below the ground surface. Other than these depressions, there <br />is no evidence of cultural resources in the area of the access road. <br />