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• maned into the Park, and hay fazmirrg and ranching became important. These activities continue today, and have been supplemented by energy minerals de- velopment as a mayor economio force in the Park. The reader is referred to Anderson and Bleacher (1979) for a more thorough summary of the cultural background of North Park. Inventory Methodolo~t After the initial literature search conducted in March 1980, a pre- Yield check was conducted by GdrK for each of the three studies with the BIH K9 Resource Area Office prior to each field session. The objective of the field investigations performed by G4c[C was to com- plete an intensive inventory designed to locate, record, and evaluate all cultural resources eligible for NRHP nomination that were currentljr exposed within areas of proposed coal development. One hundred percent pedestrian survey was accomplished by the survey personnel walking parallel zigzag • corridors of from 5 to 30 meters in width, depending on terrain and ground surface visibility, throughout the project areas as delineated on topographic maps provided by Wyoming Fuel Comparyy, and in some adjacent areas (see Figure 2). Core drill sites investigated were marked by flagging and lath. Cultural evidence was sought in the forms of surface litter, structural remains, cultural exposures in banks and road cuts, and unnatural environ- mental disturbances. Upon discovery of non-recent (pre-AD 1931) cultural re- mains, survey corridors were abandoned and the vicinity of the find(s) was intensively examined to determine the nature and extent of the rem~~ns. Two categories of non-recent resources were encountered in the Mine Plan areas surveyed by G&K, and are described as follow: an isolated find (IF) is a single cultural item recorded with no other related materials oc- tarring within a 30 meter radius of the find, and a locality is a small activ- ity locus containing six or fewer aboriginal items, or containing an historic structure or feature (e.g., a dump) representing a single type of limited, non-habitational use, occurring within an area up to b0 meters in diameter. No sites, which are defined as containing more concentrated and~or varied • components, were recorded by CBdC, though a previousl,}r recorded site, 5 JA163, -4-