A04_(SOW)__(West_Jolly_Jack_Habitat_Mgmt).pdf

FWS IDIQ Cultural Resources Contract Cultural Resource Inventory for the West Jolly Jack Habitat Management Project

Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, Spokane County, Washington

Scope of Work A. Key Information

Project Name Cultural Resource Inventory for the West Jolly Jack Habitat Management Project Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, Spokane County, Washington

Location The project is located in the Southeast corner of Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, Spokane County, Washington. Township 22N, Range 42E, Sections 9, 10 and 15, Cheney and Spangle West USGS Quads (Figures 1-3).

Acres 930 Acres

Approximate fieldwork start date Upon Award of Contract (around August 6, 2022)

Final Report Completion February 3, 2023

B. Purpose The contractor will conduct background research, field survey, cultural resource identification and documentation, and report and site form preparation for the West Jolly Jack Habitat Management Project, Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), Spokane County, Washington.

The contractor will also conduct background research and field documentation of the Mullan Military Road route within the survey area, as well as an historic homestead located immediately north of the presumed route of the Mullan Road.

The contractor will analyze the collected data to:

1. Describe the artifacts and other cultural materials,

2. Characterize the cultural and natural environment,

3. Advise on the general integrity, content, and function of cultural resources, and

4. Recommend measures to protect and manage cultural resources during project activities.

The contractor’s method and deliverables will conform to the IDIQ contract, and the details presented below.

C. Background

The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is proposing to conduct a variety of activities to manage fuels and to improve wildlife habitat within the West Jolly Jack Unit on Turnbull NWR, southeast of the town of Cheney, Spokane County, Washington (Figures 1 - 3).

Project activities may include thinning small diameter trees, commercial harvest of medium to large diameter trees, piling brush and thinning debris, and prescribed burning on a total of 1300 acres. The FWS used DAHPs WISAARD Probability Model to select areas with the greatest potential for cultural resources, resulting in the 930 acres for survey under this contract.

The Mullan Military Road traverses the southern portion of the unit, however the exact location is unknown. An undocumented historic homestead is located near the center of the unit north of the presumed route of the Mullen Military Road. The homestead contains the remnants of a well, fruit orchard and foundation. Both of these historic sites will be documented under this contract.

D. Regulatory Context

The project occurs on Federal lands within Turnbull NWR and therefore is subject to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA).

E. Work Location/Project Area

Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, Spokane County, Washington. Township 22N, Range 42E, Sections 9, 10 and 15, Cheney and Spangle West USGS Quads (Figures 1-3).

The project is located in a management unit on the ecotone between ponderosa pine forest and Palouse Prairie habitat. Portions of the project area are forested with a mix of Ponderosa pine with an understory of shrubs, while the remainder are open grass lands with a variety of grasses and forbs. Topography is primarily flat with some undulations from Mima Mounds.

F. Background Research

The contractor will follow the guidelines of the Washington SHPO for cultural resource research, survey, and site recordation on federal land. The FWS will forward to the contractor pertinent site records, reports, maps, and GIS shapefiles (APE and Survey Areas). The contractor will conduct background research, and a literature and archival search for cultural resource information in and near the project area. The contractor will consider the nature and location of existing cultural resources in nearby analogous environmental settings and assess information on geomorphological processes that may affect the preservation and discoverability of cultural resources in the project area. The contractor will include a summary of the background research in the final report.

G. Fieldwork

The contractor will conduct a cultural resource inventory and site recordation that meets the standards of the Washington State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). The Survey Area will be inventoried for cultural resources by pedestrian transects spaced about 30-40 meters apart (maximum of 40 meters apart). All cultural resources that meet the definition of a site by the Washington SHPO will be recorded. Site boundaries will be determined by the extent of surface artifacts, cultural features, and geomorphic features. The contractor will prepare Washington SHPO approved site records, location maps, sketch maps, photographs of all sites and obtain Smithsonian trinomials for each documented site. Isolated artifacts will also be recorded. The contractor will inspect any previously recorded sites within the APE and prepare new site records to meet current Washington SHPO standards. No artifacts will be collected. Diagnostic items such as projectile points, other dateable artifacts, and cultural features will be documented on site records and mapped by GPS.

The contractor will report GPS-derived UTM coordinates and boundaries for each cultural site in the APE so that the site can be relocated by work crews, flagged, avoided, and otherwise excised from the APE of the project by the FWS.

H. Fieldwork Standards

A qualified Field Supervisor meeting the Secretary of the Interior Standards for a professional archaeologist will supervise each field crew. All work will conform to Washington SHPO guidelines.

The contractor will draw and photograph chronologically and functionally diagnostic artifacts. Pertinent maps will include site concentrations, diagnostic artifacts, tools, structures, or features, site boundary, photo points, a north arrow, scale bar, legend, geographic details such as land features and prominent contours. The contractor will not establish a permanent, artificial, on-the ground datum. The contractor may map by transit, total station, tape and compass, or GPS.

The contractor will use GPS (NAD 83 Datum) to collect location data on sites, isolates, and transect and other information identified during the survey. The contractor will set GPS units to log date and data such as maximum Position Dilution of Precision (PDOP).

Positional accuracy should be within +/- 3 meters. GPS data will require real time or post processed differential correction to ensure data accuracy. Data must be differentially processed using a base station closer than 200 miles. PDOP less than or equal to 6.

Minimum of 4 satellites (3D) for every position. Rover files (*.ssf) and the corrected files (*.cor) shall be submitted on USB with the reports.

The Contractor will export location data from the GPS into an ArcGIS program (compatible with ArcMap 10.6 or ArcGIS Pro). Attributes exported will include maximum PDOP, GPS date, correction type, receiver type, filtered positions, for lines and polygons average horizontal precision and worst horizontal precision, and for points standard deviation and horizontal precision. Theme attribute tables (*.dbf) will be edited to ensure complete and accurate data. The contractor will submit GIS shape files (.cpg, .dbf, .prj, .sbn, .sbx, .shp, and .shx) in NAD83 and metadata with the reports.

I. Collected materials

No materials will be collected as part of this contract.

J. Reporting

The contractor will prepare a draft and final report according to the standards of the Washington SHPO. The contractor will submit an electronic version of the full draft report to the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR). Following Washington SHPO standards, the draft and final report will include the following or equivalent sections:

1. Cultural Resource Report Cover Sheet and Title Page

2. Abstract, Introduction, Purpose

3. Undertaking and Area of Potential Effects

4. Location

5. Environmental Setting

6. Cultural Setting and Context

7. Literature Review

8. Research Design

9. Fieldwork, methods, crew, etc.

10. Results

11. Analysis, NRHP evaluation across all four criteria plus integrity

12. Conclusions and management recommendations to include the effect of the project on Cultural Resources within the APE

13. Bibliography

14. Maps, appendices, photographs, etc.

15. Site Forms printed and included as an Appendix

Fourteen days after receiving comments on the draft report from the FWS, the contractor will submit an electronic version of the full final report, two hard copies of the final report and site forms, and two USB drives to include the final report, site forms, GIS Shapefiles, and Photographs to the COR. The final report will provide recommendations concerning the eligibility of each site for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (specific criteria shall be assigned to each resource according to 36 CFR 60.4), provide recommendations for the effects of project activities on cultural resources, and answer research questions identified in the historic context of the report.

K. Timeline and Deliverables Field Survey may start upon award of contract (around August 6, 2022) Draft report and site records submitted January 6, 2023.

Final report and all associated forms, documents, and files submitted February 3, 2023

L. Contracting Officer’s Representative Carla D Burnside, Zone Archaeologist – Eastern Washington and North Idaho US Fish and Wildlife Service – Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge 26010 S. Smith Rd, Cheney, WA 99004 Phone: 509-559-3026 Email: carla_burnside@fws.gov

Alternate COR Karla Mingus, USFWS Zone Archaeologist US Fish and Wildlife Service, Cultural Resource Team Phone:208-378-5289 Email: karla_mingus@fws.gov

Refuge Contact Lisa Wilson, Refuge Manager US Fish and Wildlife Service – Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge 26010 S. Smith Rd, Cheney, WA 99004 Phone: 509-559-3021 Email: lisa_wilson@fws.gov