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Site Descriptions <br />This section provides a general description of sites SDT1325 and SDT1326. Cultural <br />resources location data is provided in Appendix A, Detailed information about the sites is <br />provided in Appendix B: OAHP Site and Isolated Find Forms (these appendices aze restricted <br />from pubfic publication). <br />Site SDT1325 is a sheltered camp that was historically inhabited (albeit intermittently) <br />by Reuben Dove from about 1908 until his death in 1926. His occupancy of the rockshelter is <br />documented in a biography entitled The North Fork Hermit that was published in 1989 by <br />Hazley Orahood, a retired Forest Service employee. Appazently, Dove lived in as many as <br />five such shelters throughout the azea, but lived in this one full-time during the last yeazs of his <br />life. <br />The site encompasses a rockshelter formed by a ledge overhang, a cleared gazden azea <br />along the gulch bottom, and a spring. The ledge overhang runs for about 100 feet and is <br />northeast-facing. The azea of apparent occupation is about 60 feet long although storage of <br />food-stuffs could have occurred in the remainder ofthe shelter. Soils aze shallow throughout <br />most of the overhang which measures a maximum of about 10 feet deep and 5 feet high. The <br />• focus of the shelter is its deepest, highest section on the south end. An arc of rock outside the <br />dripline of the shelter may have provided most of its heat. Under the shelter is a stack of <br />wood and a large manurial bone. Both ofthese aze on a bench in the shelter that has been <br />slightly excavated into the bedrock shale. Neither were likely left by Dove. In fact, the shelter <br />contains only one artifact, a glass fragment found on the edge of the vandal's pit located <br />outside the dripline. <br />After Dove was removed from this shelter sick and neaz death in June of 1926, two <br />young cowboys dug azound in the overhang looking for gold (Orahood 1989:28). Two azeas <br />exhibit excavation, a hole that is situated at the edge ofthe overhang where runoffhas <br />accumulated sediments, and a trench that runs from there toward the back of the shelter. The <br />pit measures approximately lm xlm, and was probably dug over 60cm deep into the soft <br />alluvial soils, although it has filled in. A lOcm section ofthe west wall of this hole was faced <br />to a depth of 40cm to reveal a profile and determine if there aze any buried cultural deposits. <br />None were found. Chazcoai was observed on the southeast edge of that pit, but it originated <br />from the adjacent hearth azea, which again was positioned on the shale ledge. The vandals' <br />trench is about 1.Om wide, 2.5m long and l Ocm deep. The back edge of the trench was also <br />faced in a lOcm wide area This provided a profile [hat indicated the trench was dug into <br />shale bedrock and there aze no subsurface deposits. <br />Just downstream from the shelter is a flat azea that measures about 100 feet long (N-S) <br />by 60 feet wide. It has been cleared of rocks and was likely the gazden azea. A pile of <br />. sandstone clasts is found at the northwest corner of this azea. Several clasts are set in the <br />drainage to slow the water and probably flood the garden azea. Dove reportedly grew <br />