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Limited-Results Cultural Resource Survey Form <br />(page Z of 4) <br />III. Project Location <br />Please attach a photocopy of USGS Quad. cleazly showing the project location. The Quad. should be clearly labeled with <br />the Principal Meridian, Township, Range, Section(s), Quad. map name, and date. Please do not reduce or enlarge the <br />photocopy. <br />14. Description: Location AAA is located on the northern neck of West Flatiron approximately one-half mile <br />east of the head of Box Canyon and about one and one-half mile south of the North Fork Gunnison River. <br />Location BBB is on the east side of West Faltiron about one-half mile south of the narrow base of the flat <br />topped ridge where AAA is located. <br />15. Legal Location: Quad. Map: Somerset Date(s): 1964 Photorevised 1978 <br />Principal Meridian: 6th X NM _ Ute _ <br />NOTE: Only generalized subdivision (quarter-quarters) within each section is needed. <br />Township: 13 South Range: 90 West Sec.: 14 '/.s: SE/SE <br />Township: 13 South Range: 90 West Sec.: 23 ''/,s: W/NE/NE; E/NW/NE; NW/SE <br />Township: 13 South Range: 90 West Sec.: 24 'hs: W/NW/SW <br />Township: Range: Sec.: '/,s: <br />Usection(s) is/are irregular, explain alignment method: for irregular section line between sections 23 and 24, <br />the template was anchored on the half section brasscap location <br />16. Total number of acres surveyed: 55 <br />17. Comments: Surface visibility was exceelent for these locations, but sporadic oak and brush copses and <br />stands of large trees impeded reeular linear transects <br />IV. ENVII20NMENT <br />18. General Topographic Setting: open mesa top of Flatiron <br />Current Land Use: grazing leases and recreation <br />19. Flora: AAA -tall but dispersed ponderosa pine, Douglas fir, juniper (both arborescent and shrubby) with <br />open understory of scrub oak, sagebrush, snowberry, other shrubs, grasses and fortis <br />BBB -Stands of scrub oak and shrubs and open sagebrush meadow. Both areas are heavily grazed. <br />20. Soils/Geology: light brown shallow residual silty loam on massive tabular sandstone with occassional <br />metamorphic pebbles -the underlying bedrock of the mesa is Paleocene and Eocene sandstone, claystone, <br />mudstone and conglomerate of the Wasatch Formation. <br />21. Ground Visibility: Ground surface visibility at the time of survey was very good to excellent (80-100%) <br />22. Comments: Survey conditions were excellent. The mesa ridge top area was open and provided excellent <br />visibility. However, prior to construction of stock ponds, there appears to have been no reliable source of <br />water, and the mesa is bounded by rugged slopes and sheer sandstone cliffs. The principle resources appear <br />to be game (elk, deer, bear, and small game), berries, and acorns. <br />V. LITERATURE REVIEW <br />23. Location of Files Search: Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation Date: 10/06/98 <br />24. Previous Survey Activity <br />In the project area: 1995 and 1996 surveys in immediate vicinity by author for earlier core holes <br />In the general region: Several surveys along river valley to north for highway improvements and mine <br />development, small surveys in the Gunnison National Forest for coal exploration and related access roads, <br />and similar exploration farther east on the north side of the West Elk Mountains. Generally small surveys <br />with most historic and prehistoric sites found along the river valleys and principal drainages. <br />