PERMFILE128845

• Permit No: C1980005
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Doc Name: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYS 008 POND TR 12
• Section_Exhibit Name: TAB 05 APPENDIX 5-3
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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present allow it, each site can be assigned to a temporal/
• cultural period. Site type and function can also be derived
from the attributes recorded. To test the hypotheses
given above, the inventory will note the presence and
location of all cultural resources. The site type, function,
--` features, and artifacts present will also be described
and evaluated.
6.0 METHODOLOGIES
The following section describes the field and laboratory
methods used in the cultural resources investigation.
6.1 FIELD METHODS
The project area contains approximately 180 acres. Of
this amount, at least 408 (72 acres) was covered by intensive
pedestrian survey, using transects spaced 30 m apart.
This portion of the total acreage represents the terrain
with less than 90o slopes, and consists principally of
ridgetops, valley floors, and relatively gentle toeslopes.
The west side of the large sandstone outcrop in the NW1 /4NW1 /4
of Section 7 presents a continuously vertical wall or
cliff, some 50 feet high by 1200 to 1300 feet long (Figure
• 3B). This cliff, which incorporates several overhangs,
was closely examined throughout its length for rock art,
rock shelters, etc. The east side of the outcrop, which
dips sharply eastward, could be examined with binoculars
only, since it could not be safely traversed without climbing
gear (Figure 3A).
The remainder of the survey area (approximately 108 acres),
was almost entirely covered with dense oak brush, the
latter being virtually inpenetrable. The areas of oa4;
brush cover have an understory of shrubs and dense grasses,
providing 1008 ground cover. Low profile cultural resources
(such as lithic sites) are virtually undetectable under
this ground cover. However, several widely spaced (up
to 50 m) contour transects were walked through those areas
with the least dense oak brush. Several abandoned road
cuts in the W/12SW1/9 Section 6, up to one-third mile
in length and running northeast/southwest, were also walked.
These cuts provided cutbank exposures up to one meter
deep. Also, aspen trees were closely examined for graffiti
more than 50 years old. This methodology is believed
to have ensured adequate inventory coverage of the project
area, since it allowed for the study of places with liigl~
cultural resources potential, such as valleys, ridgetops,
rock overhangs, aspen groves, and gentle open slopes.
• Those areas which were surveyed only by several opportunistic
transects are considered to have low potential for cultural
resources, because of their steepness.