›› Nevada: Reclamation’s Lower Colorado Regional Office works in partnership with the Southern Nevada Water Authority and the Clark County Department of Parks and Recreation to manage, preserve, and interpret cultural resources along Las Vegas Wash within the Clark County Wetlands Park. ›› Wyoming: BLM’s Wyoming Newcastle Field Office partnered with a Wyoming Conservation Corps team to remove fire killed trees and deadfall from areas near 38 petroglyph panels to protect them from future wildfires and clear access along walking routes used on public tours. The crew also removed tangled fencing and fence posts that had been uprooted during a flash flood, which had hindered access to a large petroglyph panel. ›› New Mexico: In 2014 the USACE’s Albuquerque District implemented the “Cerrito Recreation Area Site Protection Measure Study,” in partnership with the New Mexico SHPO and tribes at Abiquiú Lake, to address recreational access and impacts to historic properties. This will provide valuable data to resource managers regarding effective site protection measures in high traffic areas. Highlights of federal agency and tribal partnerships: There is significant room for more varied partnerships with tribes. Tribes can be especially effective partners; they have special expertise about what makes a property significant, and often have strong historical and cultural connections with them. Federal agencies report very few historic preservation partnerships with NHOs. ›› New Mexico: Reclamation partnered with the Nambe, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, and Tesuque Pueblos to complete four large archaeological surveys of the impact corridors for the Aamodt Project, a large project to deliver water to four New Mexico pueblos. ›› Pacific Northwest: USACE’s Portland District partners with the Columbia River Inter- Tribal Fisheries Enforcement (CRITFE) department to patrol more than 150 miles of shoreline on the three lower Columbia River reservoirs, resulting in reduced looting of historic properties. CRITFE also provides training to local law enforcement, park rangers, and tribal members.
BLM Ethnographic Outlaw Cave, Montana (Photographs courtesy of Chief Dull Knife College, provided by BLM)
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