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<br />INTRODUCTION <br />At the request of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in December, <br />1974, the Laboratory of Public Archaeology (LOPA), Colorado State Univer- <br />sity (CSU), agreed to undertake a Class I! archaeological reconnaissance <br />of Proposed Coal Lease Areas in the Williams Fork i+lanagement Framework <br />Plan area. The work was accomplished by a team of graduate and undergra- <br />duate students under the direction of Calvin H. Jennings. Fieldwork com- <br />menced in June, 1975 and concluded in August, 1975. Laboratory analysis <br />and report preparation began after returning to CSU, with the preliminary <br />report being submitted in September, 1975. <br />The survey area is located in the Williams Fork Mountains, south of <br />the Yampa River, roughly between the Steamboat Springs-Oak Creek area and <br />Craig, Colorado. Tracts 1 through 6, 7 through 9, 13, and 14 were ex- <br />amined during the fieldwork phase. Tracts 1, 3, 4, 6 and 1 are located <br />west of Oak Creek and south of Hayden in Ton, R86w; Ton, R87w; T5n, R86w; <br />and T5n, R87w. Tracts 2 and 9 are almost due south of the city of Craig, <br />the former in T6n, R90w; T5n, R90w; and TSn, R89w and the latter in Ton, <br />R90w; Ton, R91w; and Tan, R90w. Tracts 8, 13, and 14 are roughly seven <br />miles southwest of Craig on the Yampa and WiiTiams Fork Rivers. Tract <br />5 is located in the Axial Basin, in 74n, R93w. See Figure G3 (back cover) <br />of individual tracts. <br />Project Design <br />Since the survey was intended to be a reconnaissance rather than an <br />. inventory of the cultural resources present in the Williams Fork area, <br />~. the organization of survey effort was devoted primarily toward deriving <br />