Fort Hunter Liggett Cultural Resource Management Project Managers: Clinton Blount and Jennifer Farquhar Date: 1998 - present Albion Environmental, Inc. has completed over seven years of intensive cultural resource investigations for the U.S. Department of Defense at Fort Hunter Liggett, a 165,000-acre army training facility in southern Monterey County. Initial work on the installation was to conduct several intensive surveys, one totaling 7,000 acres for a Grazing Lease Environmental Assessment, another set within an historic mining district, and a third totaling 1,550 acres in remote areas of the Nacimiento River corridor. Recent projects include pedestrian survey of a 1000-acre parcel, and a site recording effort focused on previously identified sites on the Installation. In addition to these projects, Albion has completed test excavations at three large, complex prehistoric sites at Fort Hunter Liggett, CA-MNT-237, MNT-519, and MNT-879. Subsurface investigations were intended to evaluate each site in terms of its potential scientific value and relative significance, and to provide an eligibility assessment for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. All told, Albion crews excavated nearly 40 cubic meters of cultural deposit at the three locations, encountering a variety of cultural components dating from about 3000-500 years ago. Each of these projects was required to follow the guidelines set forth in the Fort Hunter Liggett Historic Preservation Plan. Albion has worked closely with the Installation's cultural resources manager and the director of the Department of Public Works to develop treatment plans that meet Department of Defense mandates concerning resource stewardship and at the same time minimize constraints on the army's training mission at the fort. The company has also taken a leading role in public outreach through the production of publications and displays that present the goals and achievements of the installation's preservation plan. Return to "Natural & Cultural Resource Management."
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