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Limited-Results Cultural Resource Survey Form
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<br />31. Using your professional knowledge of the region, why aze there none or very limited cultural remains
<br />in the project azea?: exceat for alternate access corridor alone Deep Creek and a side drainaee, all
<br />survey azeas were on hieh ridees and mesas or alone steep slopes a substantial distance from water
<br />sources; the Deeo Creek alternate access was along existine roads mostly at the base of steep slopes -
<br />these deep canyons mieht have favorable summer camQs, but would suffer cold air draina¢e in other
<br />seasons. See Soath, 1994, Mountain Coa! Company West Elk Mine Expansion Permit Area. T 13 S R
<br />90 W Gunnison County. Colorado. Class II Cultural Resource Assessment
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<br />Gooding, J. D.
<br />1978 State Highway 133 Expansion, Hotchkiss to Paonia Dam, Class 111 Cultural Resource Survey. Colorado
<br />Department of Transportation.
<br />Hibbets, B. N., J. Grady, J. Halasi, H. Huse, and F. W. Eddy
<br />1979 West Central Coal Leases. Archaeological Associates, Inc., Boulder, Colorado. Prepared for and on
<br />file with the Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service under contract with Interagency
<br />Archeological Services, Denver.
<br />Shields, Wm. L.
<br />1994 Mountain Coal Company's West Elk Mine Box Canyon Lease Area Exploration Drilling Program, Drill
<br />Locations and Access Routes, Gunnison County, Colorado, Class III Cultural Resource Inventory.
<br />Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc., Eagle, Colorado. Prepazed for Mountain Coal Company,
<br />Somerset, Colorado. On file, US Forest Service, Collbran Ranger District, Collbran, Colorado, and
<br />Bureau of Land Management, Montrose District, Montrose, Colorado.
<br />Spath, Carl
<br />1993 Raven Gulch 1993 Drilling Program, Four Proposed Core Drilling Pads, Field Camp and Access,
<br />Mountain Coal's West Elk Mine, Gunnison National Forest, Gunnison County, Colorado, Class III
<br />Cultural Resource Inventory. Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc., Eagle, Colorado. Prepazed for
<br />Mountain Coal Company, Somerset, Colorado. On file, Bureau of Land Management, Montrose District,
<br />Montrose, Colorado, and US Forest Service, Collbran Ranger District, Collbran, Colorado.
<br />1994 Mountain Coa! Company, West Elk Mine 1994 Exploration Drilling Program Eleven Drilling Locations,
<br />Three Staging Areas, and Five Access Routes T 13 S, R 90 W, Gunnison County, Colorado Class III
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