Cultural Resource Management Services
Our staff has extensive experience and specialized skills to assist you in managing your cultural resource project. We offer services beyond just archaeological survey and evaluation and are committed to mutually cooperative preservation and management of our shared resources.
Some of the services we offer in CRM include:
- Agency and Native American consultation services.
- Oral history interview assistance (working directly with tribal cultural resource departments).
- Cultural resource investigations for Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impact Statements.
- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulatory compliance.
- Formal agreement document preparation - Memorandum of Agreements and Programmatic Agreements.
- Project Effect determinations.
- National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility assessments and NRHP nominations.
- Section 106 (NHPA), NEPA, and Governors Executive Order 21-02 compliance assistance.
- Preparation of research designs, sampling strategies, mitigation plans, and alternatives.
- Preparation of Archaeological Site Forms.
We also offer specialized assistance to Native American tribes seeking Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) grants and can help you navigate the requirements for THPO designation through the National Park Service.
Our staff has direct experience satisfying the THPO grant requirements and preparing Tribal Historic Preservation Plans.
Contact us at 360-754-2208 to explore how we can assist you on a per-project basis. Download and complete the Pre-Project Worksheet, then send it to scoperequest@aquaterracrc.com.
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Terrestrial Archaeology
Terrestrial Archaeology Services Include:
- Archival Research.
- Area of Potential Effect determination.
- Remote sensing.
- Culturally modified tree identification.
- National Register Eligibility nominations.
- Mitigation alternatives.
- Construction/field monitoring.
- Clark County Archaeological Pre-Determination Reports.
- Design of Treatment Plans.
- Nomination to the National Register and Washington State Register of Historic Places.
- Phase 1, 2, and 3 archaeological survey, testing, evaluation, and data recovery.
- Cemetery survey and documentation.
- Geographic Information Systems.
- Lab analysis and treatment of cultural materials.
- Museum transfer agreements, preparation/packaging of cultural materials.
Marine Archaeology
Marine Archaeology services include:
- Underwater (marine or inland) archaeological survey.
- Mitigation, excavation, and site monitoring.
- Permit compliance as required by the National Historic Preservation Act, for Impacts to Navigable Waters and other agreements.
- Hull inspection services.
- Pipeline inspection.
- Archival research.
- Lab analysis of recovered cultural materials.
- Underwater photography/video of survey.
- Submerged landform evaluation.
- Remote sensing survey location identification, data analysis by third-party specialists.
- Archaeological Site File and National Register nomination forms.
Architectural History
Architectural History services include:
- Architectural Surveys and Structure Inventories.
- Historic Property Inventory Forms.
- Landscape Surveys.
- Viewshed Analysis.
- HABS/HAER evaluation and documentation.
- Historic Structure Maintenance Guidelines.
- Historic Studies.
- Archival photography.