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<br />Data associated with the effects of mining and other human disturbances <br />on winter raptors continues to be collected. The field work for the entire <br />study will be completed in April of 1998. A comprehensive statistical <br />analysis will follow, and a final report will be submitted later in 1998. <br />Dowe Flats American Indian Advisory Council <br />The last meeting was held in November of 1995. No meeting was held in <br />1996 since no major project construction had taken place at that time. <br />The next meeting is scheduled for October 31 and November 1 of this <br />year. The agenda will include a field tour of the mining site, discussion of <br />project construction, reports on the field monitoring of topsoil in the mining <br />area and archaeological sites outside of the mining area, and <br />management of the Indian Mountain property. <br />Archaeoloav . <br />Monitoring of topsoil removal in the mining area for prehistoric resources <br />is a requirement of the project Cultural Resources Management Plan. <br />The project field monitor is Walker Nightwalker. He was selected by the <br />plant manage and approved by the Dowe Flats American Indian Advisory <br />Council in 1995. Michael Burney is the backup monitor. Both field <br />monitors have served in these roles since the beginning of the project. <br />Monitoring logs are filed with the plant manager. <br />Annual monitoring of archaeological sites outside of the mining area on <br />Southdown's buffer properties was conducted in 1996 and 1997 by <br />Marcus Grant, the project archaeologist. The 1996 monitoring report was <br />submitted to Boulder County. The 1997 report is currently being <br />completed. <br />i ri <br />As part of acounty-wide recordation of historic structures, the Harroun <br />Farm/Garner Dairy was inventoried by cultural resource specialists. <br />Portions of the site were recommended as eligible for nomination to the <br />National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The Dowe Flats project is <br />anticipated to have minimal impact on this site since the mine operations <br />center was moved from this site to a location approximately one-half mile <br />to the west. <br />The Montgomery School, an off-site NRHP listed resource, has been <br />monitored by the project historian. The monitoring for 1997 found no <br />change in the condition of the site. Seismographic monitoring during <br />blasting in the mining are found no impacts (zero readings) from blasting. <br />A 1997 monitoring report has been submitted to Boulder County. <br />9 <br />