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or more culturally modified objects not found in the context of a site as defined above. All <br />cultural resources such as open camps, lithic scatters, historic structures, and isolated fmds <br />were recorded as they were encountered to standards set by the BLM and the OAHP. <br />Sites were recorded using the following methods of mapping and note taking. <br />Mapping of site boundaries, and the locafion of individual tools, features, and IFs was <br />conducted using a BLM certified Trimble GeoExpiorer XT GPS unit. Site boundaries were <br />determined by the extent of surface artifacts and/or a protective buffer wne. One crew <br />member would map, while the other members took photographs and notes regazding the <br />sites' soil, vegetation, topography, geology, and cultural resources. Field notes and photo <br />negatives aze on file at Grand River Institute, while the photographs have been submitted to <br />the BLM and the USFS. Two artifacts were collected and will be curated at the Museum of <br />Western Colorado, a BLM curation facility in Grand Junction. <br />Study Findings <br />This portion of the report describes the findings and presents a discussion of site <br />significance evaluation, and provides a listing of the isolated finds. The field conditions were <br />poor. Dense vegetation and steep slopes made the survey, and the location of sites, difficult, <br />however, as expected, cultural resources were encountered. Previously recorded sites <br />SDT1326, SGN4231 (prehistoric open camps), SGN266 (a site with both prehistoric and <br />historic components), SGN254 (the Oliver Mine), SGN1494 (an historic survey marker), and <br />SGN1560 (the cemetery portion of the town of Somerset) were revisited. Site SGN4232 was <br />not revisited because it did not fall into one of the defined survey areas. Sites SDT 1326 and <br />SGN4231 had been initially field evaluated as need data and the current revisit supports these <br />recommendations. Attempts to relocated SGN266, based upon the original site description, <br />maps, and photographs, were unsuccessful and therefore the original evaluation of need data <br />remams unchanged. Historic sites SGN1494 and SGN1560 were initially evaluated as not <br />eligible (SGN1494) and eligible (SGN1560) and the current study supports these findings. <br />Site SGN1560, the town of Somerset, falls outside the project area with the exception of the <br />town cemetery. Accordingly, only the cemetery was revisited and reevaluated. <br />In addition, two prehistoric sites (SGN4724 and SGN4725), two historic sites <br />(SDT1607 and SGN4726) and 23 isolated finds (IFs) were newly identified and recorded. <br />The UTM data for the reevaluated and aewly recorded cultural resources is found in <br />Appendix B, Table B-3. Figures B-1 through B-4 in that appendix are maps that show the <br />reevaluated and newly recorded sites and isolated find locations in relation to the various <br />project areas. Detailed information for the resources is provided in Appendix C: OAHP Site <br />and Isolated Find Forms (available at the BLM and OAHP). <br />8 <br />