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SF]LTION VI <br />• SUItVh'Y MElIiODOIlJC~'Y <br />The 1986 inventory azea of 880 acres was conducted at a Class III or <br />one-hundred percent level. Portions of the area had been previously <br />surveyed at this level in 1977 by Centuries (Baker 1977), in 1978 by <br />Archaeological Associates (Hihbets et al. 1979), in vazious small surveys <br />by Centuries in 1980 through 1982 (Baker 1984a) acid once again on a more <br />substantial basis in 1964 (Baker 1984). Various parts of the study area <br />had also received the Class III scrutiny during Class II random sartQle <br />studies, descretionazy Class III, and high probability Class III efforts <br />associated with the broad scale baseline inventory of the 5,000+ acre <br />parcel in 1984. As the 1986 field rvrk was oartmnoed, this investigator <br />believed that, while it had been pretty thoroughly inventoried, the <br />topography was so rugged and the graud Dover so dense that resources <br />could very easily have been overlooked. The primary focus was thus <br />placed on potential locations of resources which might have been slighted <br />or even totally overlooked in previous surveys. Through agreement with <br />Max Witkird, Montrose District BIM Archaeologist, Colorado Westmoreland <br />was granted clearance to conduct Dore drilling operations as soon as <br />individual areas had been cleared. This was done because of the previous <br />survey coverage in hand and the emergency nature of their portal <br />development planning needs (Baker 1986b and Witkind 19861. <br />Site file searches were oorducted at the State Archaeologists Office <br />at the Colorado Historical Society, the Montrose BIM Office and Delta <br />• Forest Service Office in 1984 as part of the Class I report conducted at <br />that time (Baker 1984a). Additional file searches were made at the <br />Historical Society and BIM offices in 1986 as well. These latter file <br />searches revealed that the only resources recorded in the project area <br />were those summarized in 1984 in the Class I Overview. <br />Much of the study area consists of extremely steep slopes with <br />grades of at least ten percent and frequently twenty percent. The study <br />area accordingly evidences a lot of mass soil movement such as slams and <br />land slides. The wntemporary topography is largely attributable to such <br />actions with frequent small pockets in the hillsides. In addition to <br />this rugged topography, nearly all of the area is covered in oak brush <br />which is almost impenetrable in cost places. Grourd visibility is thus <br />quite limited even in the few flat areas such as terraces along the <br />creeks. There area fea azeas of sage with juniper and pinyon forests <br />and ground visibility is better in such areas. <br />The survey methodology stressed finding ways to si~Qly get into <br />targeted areas, such as flat spots with springs on the steep hillsides. <br />A great deal or effort was expended in reaching specific azeas. These <br />methods included extensive boulderiny and crawling over steep slopes. <br />Horses were used to follow cattle and game trails into more remote <br />portions of tl~e aria away fran the jeep roads and pedestrian transects <br />often ended as excercises in crawling through the oak brush. <br />• Survey emphasis was also placed on rock outcroppings which might <br />yield caves, rock shelters alid clirf art. 'Sources of obvious surface <br />~q <br />