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personnel. All original records and field notes, including photographic • <br />negatives, are on file at the MAC office in Eagle. <br />Three projectile points/knives collected during the 1992 field work are <br />curated at the University of Colorado - Boulder, Henderson Museum. At the <br />request of the BLM, these were retrieved and drawn for this portion of the <br />Yoast Mine Project (and returned to the Museum). Two of the points are from <br />sites investigated during the current investigations, SRTSfi7 and 5RT870, and <br />the illustrations are included with the site forms in Appendix A. The third <br />point is from a site not investigated during this stage of the project, <br />5RT865, but that illustration is also included in Appendix A. The latter site <br />is not discussed in the body of this report. <br />MANAGEMENT SUMMARY <br />A Class III cultural resource inventory was completed along a <br />realignment of the northernmost portion of the proposed haul road (see Figure <br />1). The corridor extended for approximately 5520 feet (ca 1.1 miles) with a <br />width of 200 feet. Thus, about 25.3 acres were inventoried. Much of this <br />corridor overlaps the original corridor survey. However, the entire corridor <br />was examined during the current investigations to insure adequate coverage. <br />Access for the project from Steamboat Springs is west on US Highway 40, then <br />south on Twenty Mile Road. All of the Yoast Mine will be west of Twenty Mile <br />Road. <br />Constraints on the survey include, in order of magnitude, dense • <br />vegetation, saturated areas and large numbers of mosquitoes. Scrub oak and <br />Utah serviceberry thickets dictated the placement of some of the shovel probes <br />during the NRHP assessments. Overall, conditions were favorable and none of <br />the constraints affected the quality of the fieldwork. <br />The cultural resources are evaluated as not significant and it is <br />recommended that they be considered not eligible for inclusion in the t1RHP. <br />It is additionally recommended that no further archaeological investigations <br />are necessary at these sites. It is finally recommended that cultural <br />resource clearance for this project be granted. <br />METHODOLOGY <br />Survey methodology was standard zig-zagging pedestrian sweeps. Two <br />people walked one side of the centerline from Twenty Mile Road and then <br />returned on the other side. Spacing between the individuals was no more than <br />about 15 meters so each sweep covered a 100 foot wide corridor for a total <br />width of 200 feet. Peabody supplied topographic maps of the project area at a <br />1 inch to 400 foot scale (10 foot contour interval). The original survey line <br />was then transferred to this map. The re-alignment was not staked but the <br />lathe for the original route was still standing (Travis 1994). Given the <br />scale of the Peabody maps and the lathe, there was no trouble following the <br />re-alignment. • <br />4 <br />