Attachment_5_-_Assessment_Form.pdf

BLM COLORADO SITE NUMBER: ________________

TRAVEL ROUTE SITE ASSESSMENT FORM FY: ____________________________

Version 1 2020 Severity: _______________________

Effect Determination: ____________

*PLEASE COMPLETE THIS FORM PER THE INSTRUCTIONS*

1) Was the Site Relocated ⬜Yes; ⬜ No

If no, why (100% collected in previous recording, ground disturbance, etc.)?:

2) Route Number:

3) Site Type:

4) Culture/Date:

5) Contents:

Depth of cultural materials:

6) Is the Site Located in a District/Cultural Landscape/TCP ⬜ Yes; ⬜ No

If Yes, Name and Smithsonian Number:

7) Previous Recordings:

8) Most Recent Site Eligibility ⬜ Eligible; ⬜ Needs Data; ⬜ Not Eligible; ⬜ Not Evaluated

Date: Applicable Criteria/ion:

Is the Eligibility determination still accurate based on this revisit? ⬜ Yes; ⬜ No

Why?

9) Property Owner(s): ⬜ BLM; ⬜ State; ⬜ Private; ⬜ other federal

10) Natural Environment:

Vegetation:

Landform:

Soil Description:

Estimated Soil Depth (cm):

11) Site Condition (and justification):

12) Recent Human or Animal Activity:

13) Weathering Forces or Threats:

14) Ongoing and Reasonably Foreseeable Travel Impacts:

⬜ Displacement of artifacts and surface features: □ Negligible □ Minor □ Moderate □ Major

⬜ Effects to TCPs/cultural landscapes: □ Negligible □ Minor □ Moderate □ Major

⬜ Erosion/downcutting/rutting (Motorized): □ Negligible □ Minor □ Moderate □ Major

⬜ Erosion/downcutting/rutting (Non-motorized): □ Negligible □ Minor □ Moderate □ Major

⬜ Firewood collection: □ Negligible □ Minor □ Moderate □ Major

⬜ Graffiti: □ Negligible □ Minor □ Moderate □ Major

⬜ Looting/removal/alteration of historic structures: □ Negligible □ Minor □ Moderate □ Major

⬜ Off-route travel/social trailing/tire tracks: □ Negligible □ Minor □ Moderate □ Major

⬜ Road construction/maintenance: □ Negligible □ Minor □ Moderate □ Major

⬜ Recreational Use (e.g., Visitation, hunting, camping, pull-offs, turn arounds, parking areas):

□ Negligible □ Minor □ Moderate □ Major

⬜ Vandalism/surface artifact collection: □ Negligible □ Minor □ Moderate □ Major

⬜ Visual/atmospheric/audible effect(s) to historic setting, feeling, or association:

□ Negligible □ Minor □ Moderate □ Major

⬜ Other: ____________________________________ □ Negligible □ Minor □ Moderate □ Major

⬜ None

15) Description of Travel Impacts:

16) Determination of Effect: ⬜ NHPA ⬜ NAE ⬜ AE

17) Recommended Mitigation:

⬜ Access/Route Designation □ Close □ Reroute □ Limit Vehicle Type □ Limit Season of Use

⬜ Data Recovery

⬜ Intensive Site Recording □ Historical Research □ Interpretation □ Photo Documentation

⬜ Periodic Monitoring □ Biannual □ Annual □ Every ___ years

⬜ Physical Barriers □ Fencing □ Boulders □ Other:__________

⬜ Public Education □ Responsible Trail Use/Ethics □ Vandalism/Unauthorized Collections

⬜ Signing □ ARPA □ Interp □ Closure □ Other:________

⬜ Site Stabilization/Erosion Control □ Backfill □ Install Drain □ Contour □ Pad Ground Surface

⬜ Tribal Benefit □ Access for Collecting/Foraging □ Accommodations for Religious or Other Activities

⬜ Other (Specify):__________________________________________________________

⬜ No Further Work

18) Recorder(s):

Date:

19) Organization:

Attachments:

(1) Instructions for Travel Route Site Assessment Form

(2) Site Sketch Map (include observed site impacts) □ Attached □ N/A (site not relocated)

(3) U.S.G.S. 24k Map □ Attached □ N/A (site not relocated)

(4) Photo Log □ Attached □ N/A

(5) Features and Artifacts □ Attached □ N/A

(6) Shovel Test Form □ Attached □ N/A

ATTACHMENT 1: INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE BLM COLORADO TRAVEL ROUTE

SITE ASSESSMENT FORM

Please use the Management Data Form and supporting forms (archaeological component, linear, etc.)

when changes are required to:

• Original form is incomplete, outdated, or otherwise inadequate

• Site type

• Linear resources

• Additional artifact assemblages and/or features

• Boundary Size/Location (If the error is not GIS related)

• Vandalism

• N.R.H.P. Recommendations (“need data" sites that are up-to-date and accurately recorded will not need new Management Data Forms when changing eligibility to Eligible or Not Eligible based on shovel testing)

1) Was the Site Relocated: Indicate whether you were able to relocate the site. If you were not able to locate the site, explain why. For sites suspected of being misplotted, include the search radius conducted from the mapped location.

2) Route Number: BLM route or County Road number if applicable. If none, assign none and describe

(nearest) route.

3) Site Type: Indicate whether the site is Prehistoric, Protohistoric, and/or Historic (indicate all that apply)

4) Culture/Date: Associated culture or date if known/applicable

5) Contents: Summarize the assemblage/cultural materials observed at the site and the general site setting. The description should include both a synthesis of any observed artifacts and features and any additional important information (e.g., artifact concentrations). Include a description on the potential/observed depth of cultural materials and how determined.

6) District/Cultural Landscape/TCP: Is the site part of an archaeological district or a documented cultural landscape/TCP? If so, indicate the district/TCP/cultural landscape and associated Smithsonian number.

7) Previous Recordings: List any information concerning the dates, organizations, and personnel involved in earlier documentation(s) of the resource.

8) Most Recent Site Eligibility and Date: Indicate the most recent National Register eligibility assessment, including the applicable criteria/criterion and aspects of integrity. Note: sites that are up-to-date and accurately recorded do not need to be re-recorded on a new set of site forms when changing eligibility from needs data to eligible or not eligible upon shovel testing. If you are otherwise changing the assessment as per the introduction to these instructions, you must also fill out a Management Data

Form and appropriate component form(s).

9) Property Owner(s): Indicate BLM, state, private, or other federal (indicate all that apply).

10) Natural Environment: Include both site-specific as well as general geographical setting, including aspect, landforms/topographic features, vegetation, soils, depositional environment, water, slope, and ground visibility.

Consider including, as appropriate:

• Nearest water source and the nature of the source. Example: unnamed intermittent. Do not include modern man-made sources unless applicable for an historical site.

• List vegetation associations/communities on site and surrounding site. Examples: pinon/juniper, riparian, steppe. An association is defined as a natural unit of vegetation characterized by a relatively uniform species composition often dominated by particular species.

Common topographic feature(s). Examples:

• MOUNTAIN: Mountains are the largest elevated landforms in the landscape. They exhibit great areal extent with peaks and crests and are named as ranges and mountains on U.S.G.S. quad sheets. Mountains are over 1,000 feet in elevation above the surrounding landforms and have been created by volcanic depositions and/or uplift.

• HILL: A more or less isolated prominence with a peak or crest, generally less than 1,000 feet in elevation relief and limited in area.

• TABLELAND/MESA: An elevated landform with a flat or gently undulating top, usually isolated, and bounded on at least one side by a steep cliff or slope.

• RIDGE: An elevated, relatively narrow landform, often with steep sides and usually sharp-crested.

• SADDLE/PASS: A flattish ridge connecting the summits of two higher elevations.

• ALCOVE/ROCKSHELTER: A space within or below a natural overhang or a cavity in rock, including caves.

• CLIFF: A high, steep face of rock (or sometimes earth).

• SLOPE: Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the horizontal plane whose incline is greater than 3 degrees.

• LEDGE: A narrow, flat surface or shelf that projects from a cliff face or slope.

TERRACE/BENCH: A relatively flat strip of ground bounded on one side by a steeply descending slope and on the other side by a steeply rising slope.

• CANYON: Any steep-walled feature cut by running water into bedrock, the sides of which are comprised of very steep slopes or cliffs rising from its bottom. Canyons are distinct from gullies, which are cut into unconsolidated alluvium or colluvium.

• VALLEY: Low-lying land bordered by higher ground on at least two sides.

• BASIN: A depressed area into which the adjacent land drains, and which has no surface outlet.

• FLOODPLAIN: The strip of relatively flat land adjacent to a river channel, constructed by the river and covered with water when the river overflows.

• CUTBANK: The steep face that is or has been recently eroding into alluvial or colluvial deposits.

• ARROYO/GULLY: A term used to describe the cut resulting from the erosional activity of an intermittent drainage in unconsolidated alluvium or colluvium.

• PLAYA: A dry lake or pond, usually very flat, composed of clays and silts with a high salt content, usually vegetation-free.

• TALUS SLOPE: A steep slope formed by an accumulation of loose rock fragments, usually at the base of a cliff or steep slope.

• ALLUVIAL FAN: A cone or fan-shaped deposit of alluvium made by a stream where it changes gradient.

• PLAIN: A region of generally uniform slope, comparatively level or slightly hilly (0-3 degrees slope), of considerable extent and not broken by marked elevations and depressions. It may be an extensive valley floor or plateau summit.

• DUNE: A low mound, ridge, bank, or hill of loose, aeolian, granular material (generally sand).

• OTHER: Use this category only when it does not meet any of the criteria outlined above. Please specify.

Common depositional environments. Examples:

• AEOLIAN: Materials deposited by wind.

• ALLUVIAL: Materials deposited by water.

• COLLUVIAL: Materials deposited primarily by gravity. This may occur in conjunction with other processes. Example: slope wash produced by sheet erosion.

• MORAINE: Detritus (rocks and sediments) deposited by a glacier at its terminus or lateral edges.

Also includes till from a ground moraine.

• RESIDUAL: Soil formed in place, presumably from the same rock on which it lies.

• NONE: No soil deposition. Example: bedrock, cliff face, etc.

• OTHER: Use this category only when other categories are not applicable. Specify.

Soil Depth and Description

• Calculate depth in centimeters. Give an estimate in centimeters rather than entering a subjective term (i.e., shallow, deep, etc.). Please estimate the depth, or give a minimum depth, if exact depth cannot be determined. Include texture (clay, silt, sand, loam, etc.) and rockiness (gravelly, etc.).

Describe color and include Munsell color code if possible.

11) General Site Condition: Use this space to describe the condition of the site. This is a subjective decision concerning the general condition of the resource, not related to travel management. In justifying your site condition assessment, mention specific details for particular areas, structures, or features, if appropriate, in the following:

(12) Recent Human or Animal Activity: Describe recent human use or vandalism (e.g., collector’s piles, unauthorized excavation, user-made trails or camping areas, etc.), or destructive activity by animals (e.g., burrowing, livestock trailing, etc.). Assess the probable future threats to the resource.

(13) Natural Forces or Threats: Is there damage or potential damage from soil erosion, deterioration of structure logs or other materials, spalling of rock art panels, etc.?): Assess the probable future threats to the resource.

14) Ongoing and Reasonably Foreseeable Travel Impacts: Please note only those travel impacts that are actively occurring or reasonably likely to occur, whether from use or maintenance/repair of a route, or an associated ancillary facility (e.g., parking area). Impacts noted should include (1) those actively occurring as a result of travel and (2) reasonably foreseeable travel impacts (both direct and indirect). Past impacts from travel are not to be noted unless they are still contributing to active effects at a site or could contribute to reasonably foreseeable effects at a site. Refer to the PA for terminology definitions.

Severity of Effect Description Explanatory for Determination of

Effect

Negligible There is no noted damage to the property and no likelihood of future effects to occur that would diminish the property’s NRHP integrity or qualifying characteristics.

These properties are determined to be in the APE (some length of route or area). If the integrity measure is determined to be negligible there is essentially no measurable effect on the resource. BLM will recommend a NAE finding and no further work is required.

Minor The route may bisect a portion of the historic property. While effects may be actively occurring, these effects are minimal to the extent that they are not expected to reasonably or foreseeably diminish the NRHP integrity and qualifying characteristics

These sites are determined to be in the

APE (some length of route or area) and would have minimal effects with limited potential for future impacts that would diminish the integrity of the site.

Monitoring may be prescribed on a case-by-case bases. These sites will have a NAE finding

Moderate Effect(s) to the historic property are either localized or noted in multiple areas. Aspects of

NRHP integrity exhibit damage, alteration, or are reasonably foreseeable, but can be retained if the detrimental activity is mitigated

Mitigation is required. Follow guidance in Section V. of the PA. These sites will have an AE finding.

Major Effect(s) to the historic property are severe and have resulted in significant loss, or significant loss is reasonably foreseeable, to the NRHP integrity or qualifying characteristics

Mitigation is required. Follow guidance in Section V. of the PA. These sites will have an AE finding.

N/A All “needs data” or unevaluated sites determined to be not eligible. No further fieldwork required

These sites would have a NHPA finding.

15) Description of Travel Impacts: If “yes” to any of the damage/effects above, describe the severity of travel impact(s) in depth. Address direct effects to cultural features, cultural deposits, and natural environment (referencing photos when applicable) as well as indirect effects to the characteristics that make the historic property eligible or potentially eligible for the NRHP. Explain how these effects/impacts affect the property’s aspects of integrity: Location, Design, Materials, Workmanship, Setting, Feeling, and Association. Distinguish between past impacts vs. reasonably foreseeable impacts with the potential for ongoing/additional adverse effects to the site.

Note: Direct effects refer to physical alternations or destruction of a historic property (i.e., ground disturbance). Indirect effects refer to visual, atmospheric, and/or auditory effects to the characteristics of a historic property for which setting, feeling, and/or association are qualifying characteristic(s) of NRHP eligibility.

16) Determination of Effect: The determination of effect is directly tied to the severity of effect as described in number 14 of this sheet (Refer to the “Explanatory for Determination of Effect” column).

Make a determination of: No Historic Property Affected (NHPA), No Adverse Effect (NAE), or Adverse

Effect (AE) based on the severity of ongoing and reasonably foreseeable travel related impacts.

17) Recommended Mitigation: Please reference Section V. Resolution of Adverse Effects in the PA.

18) Recorder(s): Enter the full name of the recorder(s). Do not use initials.

Date: Enter the last day that you were in the field. The date should be in a MM/DD/YYYY format

19) Organization: Enter the name of the organization, agency, or company with which the recorder is affiliated (be specific).

ATTACHMENT 2: SITE SKETCH MAP

(REPLACE WITH SITE MAP)

ATTACHMENT 3: U.S.G.S. 24k Map

(REPLACE WITH PHOTOCOPY OF U.S.G.S MAP)

ATTACHMENT 4: PHOTO LOG

General site overview, noteworthy features or diagnostic artifacts, and, if necessary, attach others showing damage):

Photo # Direction Subject

ATTACHMENT 5: FEATURES AND ARTIFACTS

Non-Architectural Features: Prehistoric or Historic Features (note dimensions in centimeters or meters)

Description Material Dimensions Travel Impacts

Architectural Features: Prehistoric or Historic Features (note dimensions in centimeters or meters)

Description Material Dimensions Travel Impacts

Artifacts: (artifact number, type, dimensions, material, and/or sketch, if collected include

UTMs):

Description Material Quantity

Sketch:

ATTACHMENT 6: SHOVEL TEST FORM

STP# STP#

Comments:

Comments:

STP# STP#

Comments:

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