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1_inrited-Re•s Cultural Resource Survey Form (pa•2 of 17) 111. Project Location Please attach a photocopy of USGS Quad. clearly showing the project location. The Quad. should be clearly labeled with the Principal Meridian, Township, Range, Section(s), Quad. map name, and date. Please do not reduce or enlarge the photocopy. - l4. Description: Drill holes are scattered in the upland area in the Williams Fork Mountains and in the rolling foothills of the Williams Fork Mountains south of the Yampa River Valley between the towns of Hayden and Pagoda in Routt and Moffat Counties. I5. Legal Location: Quad. Map: Hayden Gulch; Hayden; Breeze Mountain; Mount Harris; Pagoda Date(s): 1971 (PI 1973); 1971 (1973); 1971; 1971; 1971 Principal Meridian: 6th X NM _ Ute NOTE: Only generalized subdivision (quarter-quarters) within each section is needed. Township: See table page 5 Range: Sec.: '/,s: Township: Range: Sec.: %.s: Township: Range: Sec.: '/.s: Township: Range: Sec.: ''/.s: IC section(s) is/are irregular, explain alignment method: Anchored on SE comer of irregular sections. ]6. Total number of acres surveyed: Approx. 122 acres 17. Comments: 150 foot radial areas at most core holes. Some lazger areas were inventoried due to uncertain core hole placement (FED-10, 27 & 32). Smaller azeas inventoried (minimum of 100' radial areas) due to topography andlor very heavy vegetation (FED-1, 2, 26, 28, 43). FED-4, 6, 7, 8, 38, 47 were in a previous inventory block (Pioneer Archaeology 1982) and were not inventoried during this investigation. Fed-26 located on old drill hole with existing access. IV. ENVIRONMENT 18. General Topographic Setting: Upland area south of Yampa River Valley. Northern portion of project area consists of rolling topography with broad, gently sloping ridge tops and shallow, broad galleys. Relief in southern portion of project area is much greater consisting of finger ridges and deep, steep sided gulches where bedrock outcrops forming cliffs and overhangs. Drainage in the area is via numerous intermittent and permanent drainages that flow south-southeast to the Yampa River. Current Land Use: Agriculture (farming and ranching); energy development (coal mining). 19. Flora: Upper elevations in southern portion of project area has thick overstory of Gambel Oak, Serviceberry, Current (?), and Aspen with thick understory sagebrush, forbs (including yarrow, herbaceous cynquefoil, purple daisies, Penstemen, Purple Aster), and tall thick grasses. Lower elevation areas at northern end of project area greasewood, sagebrush, and short grasses. 20. Soils/Geology: Thin sandy foams on the ridge tops with bedrock frequently outcropping on the surface. Galleys contain thick alluvial and colluvial deposits of sandy foams. Deposits aze generally more clayey and thicken from south to north toward the Yampa River Valley. Sandstones, shales and coal beds of the Cretaceous age Williams Fork Formation outcrop on the ridgetops and galley walls in the southern end of the project area. The northern portion of the project area is underlain by the Cretaceous age Lewis shale. Some cobble armored ridges of probable Pleistocene age were also observed. 21. Ground Visibility: Poor to non-existant in heavily vegetated (90-100% ground cover) galleys and ridge top locations in the southern portion of the project azea. Good to excellent in rolling foothills at the northern portion of the project azea (0-40%). Some holes and accesses located in newly plowed cultivation fields with 100% visiblility (FED-16, 19, 37)LOthers loafed in thickly vegetated hay fields with 95-100% ground cover (FED-17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 36). 22. Comments: Open places, drainages, and existing road cuts were cazefully examined in heavily vegetated areas.