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The criteria applied to evaluate properties (other than areas of the National Park System <br />and National Historic Landmarks) for the NR-KP are as follows: "The duality of significance in <br />American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture is present in districts, sites, <br />buildings, structures, and objects that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, <br />workmanship, feeling, and association and: <br />that are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad <br />patterns of our history, or <br />(a) that are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; or <br />(b) that 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 components <br />may lack individual distinction; or <br />(c) that have yielded, or nnay be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or <br />history (36 CFR §60.4)." <br />Field Methods <br />The 80 acre block was inventoried using pedestrian transects spaced no more than 30 <br />meters apart, expect for the extreme southwest corner. Here the terrain approached 30' so the <br />transects ti --ere spaced farther apart, but close enough to visually inspect for evidence of nnininl-T <br />actil'ity. Overall, special attention was given LO UfQaS Of irmcreased surface visibility such as <br />animal trails, drainage cutbanks, roads, rodent back dirt piles, eroded areas and ant hills. <br />If cultural materials were discovered they were to be classified as sites or isolated finds, <br />documented on appropriate Colorado Cultural Resource Survey Forms, and their locations plotted <br />on 7.5° USGS topographic maps. A Garniin WAS enabled GPS unit was used to plot the site <br />boundaries and isolated find location using the 1983 North American Datum, Isolated finds <br />typically reflect a very small range and duration of past human behavior and their depositional <br />settings clearly lack potential for significant, intact, bladed cultural remains, <br />In general MAC defines an isolated find (IF) as less than five prehistoric artifacts or 49 <br />historic artifacts without associated features. LFs typically reflect a very small range and <br />duration of past human behavior. A site would consist of five or more prehistoric artifacts or 50 <br />or inure historic artifacts Willi associated feattues, within 50m of one another, or at least one <br />cultural or structural feature. Single isolated hearths with no other associated artifacts will also <br />be recorded as a site. However, setting and research potential are more importaant criteria than <br />artifact counts or resource size for differeatiating between isolated finds and sites. For sites, the <br />full extent of the site would be established, a site sketch neap drag n, and photographs taken of <br />the site area and any distinctive features. All neaps, field notes, and photographic data are on file <br />at the MAC office in Eagle, Colorado. No artifacts were collected during this project. <br />