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Kerr Coal Company of Steamboat Springs, Colorado has submitted • a Temporary Use Permit Application (CO-010-TU-78-17) to conduct coal mining activities on 35 acres of BLM land in North Park, Colorado. The specific location of the area is the E~, Wk, NWT, Section 2, TBN, R78W, Jackson County, Colorado. That area can be found on the Johnny Moore Mountain 7~' topographic USGS quad map (cf. Figure 1). At the request of Kerr Coal Co., a cultural resources inventory • was conducted of the area by Joseph J. Lischka on August 26, 1978 under the authorization of Professional Services Antiquity Permit 78-CO-043 issued by the Departmental Consulting Archeologist, U.S. Department of the Interior to the University of Colorado at Boulder. The legal description of the area to be surveyed was supplied to Lischka in a letter from Kerr Coal Co. dated August 17, 1978. A~topographic map with the area to be surveyed marked on it was also supplied to Lischka. An official of Kerr Coal Co. escorted Lischka to the area to be surveyed and indicated the limits of the area. There is a barbed wire fence marking the north half of the east side of the survey area and the rest of the boundary of the survey area was unmarked. The unmarked portions of the boundary were determined by referring to the topographic map, which was relatively easy to do because of the relatively large degree of topographic variability in the area.' In any case, the cultural resources survey was extended approximately 100 meters beyond the estimated boundary where unmarked. The area was surveyed by walkingnorth-south transects spaced approx- • imately 10 meters apart. In addition, transects were walked along the crests of 3 east-west trending ridges in the survey area. Vegetation in the survey area consists of scattered sagebrush and associated grasses. Ground visibility was estimated to be 70-80% in most of the survey area. A few patches of heavier sagebrush on ridges reduced visibility there