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<br />a <br />require improvement for the passage of drill rigs and support vehicles. The <br />access for location N will entail the clearing of a new trail along the <br />ridgetop through the oak chaparral. The access for location R follows <br />portions of a previous, partially overgrown access road, but portions will <br />involve clearing of willows, underbrush or trees. Access corridors were <br />inspected using ziy-zag pedestrian transects to cover a 30 meter wide corridor <br />centered on the existing trail or flagged centerline. Where new trail was to <br />be cut on ridgetops, a wider corridor, up to 60 meters wide was inspected. <br />For all survey areas the ground surface was inspected for any <br />indications of cultural materials or features, and particular attention was <br />given to areas of potential deposition and to areas of enhanced visibility, <br />such as road cuts, erosion cuts, game trails, bedding areas and animal <br />burrows. <br />Results and Recommendations <br />Although vegetation cover was highly variable, and sometimes locally <br />dense, ground surface visibility was generally excellent for the <br />identification of cultural resources. Locations N and R were in dense trees <br />and undergrowth that was locally impassable and provided poor surface <br />visibility. However, assessment of the local setting and depositional <br />environment indicated a very low potential for significant intact cultural <br />resources. No cultural resources were found within any of the survey areas, <br />and cultural resource clearance is recommended. <br />