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fifty meter tape. Notes regazding the site's soil, vegetation, geology and cultural artifacts <br />were also taken. Field notes and photo negatives aze on file at Grand River Institute, while <br />the photographs aze submitted to the Forest Service and OAHP. No artifacts were collected. <br />Study Findings <br />This portion of the report describes the findings and presents a discussion of site <br />significance evaluation. The field conditions were poor. Dense vegetation and steep slopes <br />made the survey difficult, but as expected cultural resources were encountered. Sites <br />SDT1325 and SDT1326 were newly recorded. The former, which had been classified as a <br />sheltered camp suspected ofcontaining cultural deposits, was deterrnined to be heavily <br />vandalized and not eligible for nomination to the NRHP. <br />Site Significance <br />The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA) duects federal agencies to <br />ensure that federally-initiated or authorized actions do not inadvertently disturb or destroy <br />significant cultural resource values. Significance is a quality of cultural resource properties <br />. that qualifies them for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (NRIIP). The <br />statements of significance included in this report are field assessments to support recom- <br />mendations to the FS, OSM and State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO). The final <br />determination of site significance is made by the FS and OSM in consultation with the SHPO <br />and the Keeper of the Register. <br />The Code of Federal Regulations was used as a guide for the in-field site evaluations. <br />Titles 36 CFR 50, 36 CFR 800, and 36 CFR 64 aze concerned with the concepts of <br />significance and (possible) historic value of cultural resources. Titles 36 CFR 65 and 36 CFR <br />66 provide standazds for the conduct of significant and scientific data recovery activities. <br />Finally, Title 36 CFR 60.6 establishes the measure of significance that is critical to the <br />determination of a site's NRHP eligibility, which is used to assess a site's research potential: <br />The quality of significance in American history, azchitecture, azchaeology, and <br />culture is present in districts, sites, bufldings, structures, and objects of State and <br />local importance that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, <br />workmanship, feeling, and association, and a) that aze associated with events <br />that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of history; or b) <br />that aze associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; or c) that <br />embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of <br />construction, or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic <br />values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose <br />. components may lack individual distinction; or d) that have yielded, or may be <br />likely to yield, information important in the prehistory or history. <br />4 <br />