Peformance_Work_Statement.docx

Cultural Resources Overview and Assessment of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Comanche County, Oklahoma Performance Work Statement May 4, 2015 Project Summary The contractor shall prepare a Cultural Resources Overview and Assessment of the 59,000-acre Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, in Comanche County, Oklahoma. The Overview and Assessment shall provide a review and synthesis of the existing archeological, ethnohistoric, and historic information available for Wichita Mountains Refuge, and present this information within the regional context of the prehistory and history of Oklahoma.

Scope of Work The Overview and Assessment shall contain the following elements:

1) A succinct description of the environmental characteristics of the study area.

2) A compilation of existing site records of the Refuge.

3) Copies of site forms for recorded sites.

4) 7.5-minute USGS topographic maps with the site locations plotted (software versions acceptable).

5) A narrative discussion of the past and current archeological and ethnographic/ethnohistoric investigations at Wichita Mountains Refuge and the surrounding region.

6) A narrative section that presents the prehistoric and historic information available for the Wichita Mountains Refuge and surrounding region. This section shall constitute the major portion of the Overview and Assessment. It shall consist of both the Archeological/Ethnographic (prehistory/protohistory) and Historic chronologies of the region.

The prehistoric/protohistoric discussion shall include the appropriate cultural units, temporal components, or cultural sequences and phases utilized in the area. Prehistoric and protohistoric life ways shall be discussed, as identified from the archeological and ethnographic record. This shall include such factors as past technology, subsistence, settlement patterns, material culture, social and religious systems, trade, alliances, and linguistics. Identify applicable sources from which ethnographic inferences can be made.

The Historic narrative shall identify historic events, famous individuals, places, and other occurrences or incidents that are pertinent to Wichita Mountains. In developing the narrative, include information on historic personal, military, and scientific accounts and diaries, historic routes of travel, ethnic histories, and the life ways of the various ethnic groups that occupied the Wichita Mountains or its immediate region. The narrative shall capture the history of homesteading at Wichita Mountains.

The historic narrative shall describe the history of the establishment of the Refuge and the introduction of Bison, the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the history of the filming of “Daughter of Dawn”, and the history of the “Holy City of the Wichitas.”

7) Recommendations for future cultural resource management options and research directions for the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. Discuss the general questions and issues relating to future archeological and historic research, documentation, and management. Indicate gaps in the present database related to these questions and issues. Present suggestions concerning future research goals and investigation needs. Discuss relevant cultural resource management options for the area.

8) A listing of contemporary, Federally-recognized Indian Tribes with sufficient historical, cultural, and ancestral ties to Wichita Mountains, which in the opinion of the contractor should be considered the primary points of consultation for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service projects and actions under the National Historic Preservation Act, the Archeological Resources Protection Act, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, Presidential Executive Order 13007, and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

9) An Appendix listing the titles of pertinent theses, dissertations, published works, research projects and/or investigation projects which have contributed to the knowledge about the cultural resources of Wichita Mountains and the Wichita Mountains region. This listing shall be annotated with a brief summary of each listed source.

10) A listing of the cultural resource collections, if any, from the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. This listing shall include a summary of the museum and university archeological and historic artifacts, collections, catalogs, photographic records, and archival information for the Wildlife Refuge only.

11) Maps and graphics necessary to support the Overview/Assessment

12) An “Executive Summary” of the Cultural Resource Overview/Assessment capsulizing the most significant points of the complete Overview/Assessment.

13 ) Bibliography

Period of Performance:

07/14/2015 to 02/15/2016

Schedule of Deliverables CO=Contracting Officer, COR=Contracting Officer Representative/Regional Historic Preservation Officer, WMWR – Wichita Mts Wildlife Refuge)

Draft review

3weeks after receipt of draft report

E-copy MS Word via email

COR/WMWR

COR

Final draft review

6 weeks after receipt of Draft

Meeting onsite at Refuge

Contractor/COR/WMWR

Final report

2 months after acceptance of Final Draft

25 bound and printed copies

Contractor

Deliverables The contractor shall provide 4 draft copies, and 25 printed and bound copies of the final document suitable for permanent public and university library accession and circulation. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shall approve the graphic design of the final printed version in advance.

The contractor shall provide a PDF of the final document, and each graphic, map and site form shall also be supplied in PDF format separately. The site forms and site maps shall be in a separate format, and not made for public distribution.

The 25 printed and bound copies of the document, and the separate site forms and site maps, and the PDFs, shall be sent to:

Regional Historic Preservation Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 2 500 Gold Ave. SW, Room 4232, Albuquerque, NM 87103.

Further dissemination of additional copies of the completed Overview/Assessment may be made at the contractor’s option, after acceptance of the final draft by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The separate site forms and site maps shall not be disseminated.

The final document shall become the property of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Project Contact:

David Siegel, Regional Historic Preservation Officer U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 2 500 Gold Ave SW, Room 4232 Albuquerque, NM 87103 david_siegel@fws.gov 505-248-7396