CHAPTER 3 Protecting Historic Properties
COLLABORATION WITH UNIVERSITIES AND COMMUNITY GROUPS Agencies also described partnerships with local organizations and universities to undertake identification efforts.
HIGHLIGHTS
» BLM, in partnership with New Mexico State University (NMSU), completed a research-focused archaeological survey and site recording on the Paraje San Diego and several sections of the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. The NMSU survey clarified some trail segments, which greatly aided in the current and future work in the area, including the Spaceport America development.
First flight to Spaceport America (Mark Greenberg)
» DOE’s Los Alamos National Laboratory supported a University of New Mexico archaeological field school in the summer of 2022. The Cultural Resources Program taught 13 student field school participants—including three from local Indigenous communities—cultural resources survey, site recordation, and in-field artifact analysis methods in a previously unsurveyed area of the Laboratory. Through this effort, the agency surveyed approximately 40 acres of rough terrain and documented 16 archaeological sites and one Traditional Cultural Place. » DOL consulted with the 33rd Avenue School Alumni Association and invited them as a concurring party to the memorandum of agreement between DOL and the ACHP regarding the Gulfport Job Corps Center redevelopment project in Gulfport, Mississippi. Consultation assisted DOL with identifying and maintaining historic properties under its jurisdiction and executing new projects while preserving and protecting them. » The USIBWC has been consulting on the Falcon Grazing Leases Environmental Assessment at Falcon Reservoir and Dam in Texas, a project initially completed in 1954. The agency is currently working on identifying sites and preparing oral histories of the area with the local descendants of the landowners who were displaced from largely Hispanic communities along the river’s edge.
FOR THIS REPORTING CYCLE, federal agencies were asked to report to the ACHP on their efforts to protect historic properties over the reporting period. Through guidance issued by the ACHP, agencies were asked to describe how their programs and procedures for protection have changed, and how program alternatives or other tools were used to manage and protect historic properties. Agencies were also asked to report on increases or decreases in the number of cultural resources management staff they employ, the incorporation of climate change adaptation/mitigation principles, and the application and use of Indigenous Knowledge and digital information in the protection of historic properties in the context of climate change.
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance volunteers work on restoring the roofing and chinking of the historic Watson Cabin within the Paria River District, UT. (Valerie Russell/BLM)
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