Forest Service Heritage Times V12 N2 2002 William Reed, Editor

February 2002 -- Volume 12, Number 2A note about the National Heritage Program Meeting:

As in years past, the national program Spring meeting coincides with the SAAs. This year we return Denver. We are hoping that the location will make it possible for many of the FS Heritage workforce to attend both the SAAs and part of the Heritage program meeting. We have set aside some time on the agenda for Forest and District employees to present short papers on Wednesday morning.

In addition, as is our tradition, there will be an Open Forum as part of the national program meeting – an opportunity for Forest and District employees to meet with the Regional and Washington Office program leaders. The forum will start at two o’clock Wednesday

The Heritage Program - It’s About Time!

In This Issue:

The Editor’s CornerProgram UpdatesThe View from NHQPassport in TimeNew Century of ServiceTribal Relations

Infra NoteMaking Infra work for

you!

Web Notes 1Laws, Regulations, and

Policy

Web Notes 2Training sources

Archaeofiction

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Heritage Program

The Editor's Corner

The View from NHQ

afternoon. If you have particular issues, opportunities, problems or concerns you would like to discuss with the program leaders. There isa catch. The facilitator will be collecting the questions before lunch so the program leaders can prepare responses over lunch. If youare arriving after lunch and want to get a question or topic on the list for the Open Forum, send it to me by March 19th.-- Will Reed, Boise National Forest

As we move into thesecond quarter of the year I would first like to say that I hope your Holiday Season was both safe and joyous. This is the time of year when we blend the seasonal optimism with the reality of the work stillbefore us. We have both with the Heritage Program - serious issues still with us on cost pools and budget, and some room for optimism andpositive direction. Last fall we completed an historic meeting with the Tribal Relations Program designed to open up communications and enhance program functions. We have just added a new Heritage Program Specialist for Stewardship, Larry Lesko. His presence is already being felt with a long needed re-alignment of duties here with the heritage staff, which will greatly assist in implementing the HeritageStrategy. We are working on strategic linkages with the REC agenda and Chief's call for a "Quantum Leap" in carrying this forward. We have been visited by the SAA leadership in January to serve as a reminder that Heritage needs to be a part of this. Integration with other program areas and agencies will be paying some dividends - the tireless work of the NHIMI Steering and Business Team with work connected to INFRA and Ecosystems I&M efforts; working with the WCF and Facilities Decommissioning Subcommittee; with HR on standardizing PD's; establishing partners with Heritage of Diversity program

development and grants; and pursuing National Fire Plan funds to establish regional technology teams and training, to name a few. There is much to do, but we have a good start - both for us and for the regional leadership team who look forward to some positive programadvances for this year!

Mike Kaczor, Heritage Program Leader

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Passport in Time:Jill Osborn, Washington Office Detached Unit – Boise

The PIT Traveler, Vol. 13 Nr. 1 will be on the streets the first week of March. There are 100 projects for the summer and fall of 2002 and lots of cool photographs. Thanks to all for continuing to participate in this program! This issue

features forest fire lookouts due first, to my personal passionfor the structures, and second to the current challenge cost share agreement between the FS and the Forest Fire Lookout Association, a group of truly fanatic people dedicated to the preservation of fire lookouts – and I mean that in the nicest way! See the following on the FFLA for more about the cost share agreement.

There is concern among the ranks about the decline in PIT projects. We normally have between 120 and 130 projects in thesummer/fall season; the drop to 100 is significant. Myguess is there are a couple reasons. Budget, obviously isthe biggest one. Not only is it low, it has been for 8years, and now we have BFES and cost pools on top of analready dismal situation. I’m also hearing that there isburnout among PIT leaders. It’s not easy supervising abunch of very enthusiastic volunteers, and you’re doing itwith little fiscal help and little acknowledgement. Evenwith fun things, burnout is a real issue.

There is time set aside at the National Heritage Team meeting in Denver next month to discuss PIT, including how and if to keep it alive. Please consider attending that session, Wednesday afternoon, March 20. I would really like to hear from a lot of PIT folks to get ideas on how to approach the next few years in the program.

Advance warning: The call letter for winter/spring projects -December 1, 2002 through May 31, 2003 - will go out the first

week of April. Be prepared!Call for Proposals Proposals Due PIT Traveler

Published Project Dates _


October 1......December 1......March 1......June 1 - November30

April 1........June 1..........September 1. .December 1 - May31

New Century of Service and the Forest Fire Lookout Association:Jill Osborn, Washington Office Detached Unit – Boise

New Century of Service is a new 5-year effort focusing on public service as the Forest Service approaches its 100-year anniversary and culminates in 2005 with celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the Forest Service (from www.fs.fed.us/newcentury). This initiative is funded for planning and partnerships. One of the partnerships already signed is with the Forest Fire Lookout Association. The goals of the agreement between the FFLA and the FS include

1. Prepare a white paper assessing the current situation of FS lookouts and identifying opportunities through this CCS(FFLA lead)

2. Develop an operating plan for the celebration for lookoutsduring 2003-2005

3. Develop a plan to combine FS and private sector information into a database accessible to the general public

4. Develop a strategic plan for ongoing care of lookouts thatintegrates FS and private sector resources.

I would like to see this partnership result in some concrete benefits for the folks in the field trying to manage historic fire lookouts, and not turn into one of those dreaded WO initiatives that just sucks up money. I’m open to any and all suggestions.

It seems to me the database and strategic plan (#s 3 and 4) arewhere we could accomplish the most. Just getting existing datathat the FFLA and the FS have into one accessible database


http://www.fs.fed.us/newcentury

would go a long way toward a reasonable thematic management plan. We could schedule evaluations for NRHP eligibility, determine which structures are likely future cabin rentals, schedule restoration, and provide an accurate listing for the public of historic lookouts currently in the cabin rental program. Right now, the public has to look at a lot of different web sites to get a national picture of what’s available. For a program as popular as the cabin rental program, this is not good.

I would like to see the Heritage Program take a national role in this partnership, helping with a reliable national databaseand strategic plan including historic evaluation and restoration scheduling and the seed money to help the unitswith lookouts targeted for evaluation and restoration.Right now, lookouts are being restored because individualson districts and forests have a passion to do it. ThisCCS gives us the chance to look at this nationally, planit with an eye toward historic preservation and public service, and then to put our money where our mouth is! Mike Kaczor, Larry Lesko, and I are all on the working committee, so we’ll keep you posted. Let Larry us know if you have any questions, comments, or ideas!


Tribal Relations and the Heritage Program: A Meeting of Hearts and Minds

Our joint Heritage/Tribal Program meetings in Marksville, LA, went very well, in both the approach and goals realized. We were able to define issues, put others on the table, discuss, resolve, and articulate the jobs and goals that we are both doing for the FS. If there was a central theme, it was learning more about each other and communication. Our facilitation was excellent, and we were able to come away with a solid list of communication products. I believe that this will be the start of a much improved relationship that will lead us to better efficiencies in our respective work areas. Iknow that I can speak for the Heritage program personnel who

attended that we felt a lot better after the meeting and look forward to working much closer with the Tribal program liaisonsand leadership. Taking the time to understand and work together will result in better integrated policies and relationships, both internal and external. I believe that we all took a significant step forward with the cooperative attitude that I saw displayed at this meeting. We are all looking forward to our next meeting. Mike Kaczor


Tribal Government Relations and Heritage Program Meeting attendees: fromleft to right – Debra Barner (R6), Judy Propper (R3), Halcyon LaPoint (R1), John Foss (R1), Dick Waldbauer (NPS), Sue Marvin (R10), Sandi Forney (R9) Will Reed (R4), Kent Schneider (R8), Pat Spoerl (R3), Alan Dorian (R8), Dorothy Firecloud (R3), Mike Kaczor (WO), Carol Jorgensen

Making Infra work for you!Heather Busam, NHIMI Business Team Liaison

While entering data into Infra-Heritage is fun, exciting, and even rewarding; getting data out of Infra is positively exhilarating! A little known tool, released in Infra 4.9, provides users with a spreadsheet view of the most recent data about Heritage Resources in the application. Through the use of this tool, most of the Heritage Module data can be exported to Microsoft Excel, Access, PC ArcView, and Brio. Heritage data needed for upward reporting, projects, and research is made easily available. To access the export tool, follow thesesimple steps:

1. Open the Infra Heritage Module2. Click the “Resource Info. Button” on the Initial Input

Form3. A new screen will appear entitled “Resource Information

Summary” 4. Click on the button entitled “Refresh”5. The database will present the user with the most recent

information about each resource in the application. a. Multiple values will be separated by semicolonsb. The two fields below the form title show the date

of last refresh and the person who performed the refresh.

c. You can scroll through and peruse the data in the screen

6. Click the “Export/Report” button next to the “Refresh” button

a. This opens an Infra report screen with one Infra Heritage View listed

7. Click the “Excel” button


a. This exports the data viewed on the “Resource Information Summary” screen into Excel. Once in Excel the user may manipulate the data as they wishwithout changing data in the Infra application.

8. Click the “Access buttona. This exports the data viewed on the “Resource

Information Summary” form into Microsoft Access. Once in Access, the user may manipulate the data and produce MS Access reports based on data from Infra-Heritage.

9. Click the “PC Arc View” Buttona. This opens PC Arc View and attaches the data to

GIS. b. Review Arc View Heritage Tool in the user guide for

directions10. Click the Brio Button

a. This opens another reporting/exporting format different from the above.

b. Review the Infra main user guide about Brio reporting.

This tool has a myriad of uses, but depends on the data residing in Infra Heritage to be useful. Once the data is populated, tools such as this will be used to extract the data into different formats for a myriad of uses.Look for Infra 5.0 between May and June. All of Infra is goingthrough a complete makeover. New improvements will include form-based on-line help, events module for capturing Heritage activities, and user-friendly navigation and forms. Regions will want to plan training activities for Heritage personnel onthe new 5.0 forms. Just like fine wine, Infra gets better withage!


Web Notes Smoke Pfeiffer, Ozark-St. Francis

Laws, Regulations & Policy

Individual Forests, Regional Offices or the Washington Office may want to link to these sites, which offer a wide variety of laws, or simply link directly to appropriate Federal or state laws on their Heritage Web pages. Linking to these laws on ourinternet web pages lets the public know and understand the parameters within which we operate. Often, having electronic copies of these laws makes it easier to quote them (in policy, overview or management documents) than if one has to manually type in the information.

Laws & Regulationshttp://www.cr.nps.gov/linklaws.htm

Laws and Ethics Statements Pertaining to Archaeologyhttp://www.mtsu.edu/~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Laws.html

International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)http://www.international.icomos.org/out/e_sumtext.htm

The ArchLaw Home Pagehttp://home.earthlink.net/%7Eelamerica/

FedLaw – Historical Preservation, Archaeology, Culture andRecreation

http://www.legal.gsa.gov/legal13.htm


http://www.legal.gsa.gov/legal13.htm

http://home.earthlink.net/~elamerica/

http://www.international.icomos.org/out/e_sumtext.htm

http://www.mtsu.edu/~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Laws.html

http://www.cr.nps.gov/linklaws.htm

U.S. Federal Cultural Property Legislation (U.S. StateDepartment)

http://exchanges.state.gov/education/culprop/uslaws.html

The New 36 CFR Part 800http://www.achp.gov/regs.html

Federal Historic Preservation Case Law, 1966-1996http://www.achp.gov/book/COVER1.html

Archive of Updates on Prominent Section 106 Caseshttp://www.achp.gov/casearchive.html

Protecting Historic Properties: A Citizen’s Guide to Section106 Review.

htpp://www.achp.gov/citizensguide.html

National Register of Historic Places Regulations: 36 CFR Part60

http://www.archnet.uconn.edu/topical/crm/usdocs/36cfr60.html

U.S. Cultural Protection Legislation (Archnet)http://archnet.uconn.edu/topical/crm/crmusdoc.html

State Laws Pertaining to Arkansas Archeological Resourceshttp://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/archinfo/laws.html

National Indian Law Library


http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/archinfo/laws.html

http://archnet.uconn.edu/topical/crm/crmusdoc.html

http://www.archnet.uconn.edu/topical/crm/usdocs/36cfr60.html

http://www.achp.gov/citizensguide.html

http://www.achp.gov/casearchive.html

http://www.achp.gov/book/COVER1.html

http://www.achp.gov/

http://exchanges.state.gov/education/culprop/uslaws.html

http://www.narf.org/nill/Nillindex.htmlThe National Indian Law Library (NILL) functions as a department of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) and servesboth NARF and the public. The collection is devoted exclusively to Native American Law.

State Historic Preservation Legislation Databasehttp://www.ncsl.org/programs/arts/statehist.htm

These are part of the web pages of the National Conference of State Legislatures. One can search by both state and topic.

Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet(a service of the Library of Congress)

http://thomas.loc.gov/This legislative library has an FAQ section and the entire library can be searched for: Bill Summary & Status, Bill Text,Public Laws by Law Number, Roll Call Votes, most recent issue of the Congressional Record, and Committee Reports.

Web Notes -Training sources:Jill Osborn, Washington Office Detached Unit – Boise

Heritage Training Sources

(Updated, February 2002)Bureau of Land Management National Training Center

Web: http://www.ntc.blm.gov/Contact: Marilyn H. Johnson, Director, 602-906-5669 or

[email protected]

Environmental Training & Consulting International, IncWeb: http://www.envirotrain.com/

Contact: Leslie Wildesen, 303-321-3575 or [email protected]


http://www.envirotrain.com/

http://www.ntc.blm.gov/

http://thomas.loc.gov/

http://www.ncsl.org/programs/arts/statehist.htm

http://www.narf.org/nill/Nillindex.html

National Center for Preservation Technology & TrainingWeb: http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/

Contact: Frances Gail, Training Coordinator, 318-357-6464 [email protected]

National Park Service Historic Preservation Training CenterWeb: http://www.nps.gov/training/histpres

Contact: Thomas McGrath, Superintendant, 301-663-8206Contact: Connie Ramirez, 202-343-9569 or

[email protected]

National Preservation InstituteWeb: http://www.npi.org/

Contact: Francis Lumbard; 703-765-0100 or [email protected]

SRI FoundationWeb: http://www.srifoundation.org/

Contact: Terry Klein, 505-892-5587 or [email protected]

University of Nevada-RenoWeb: http://www.dce.unr.edu/hrm

Contact: Crystal Metzenbaum; 1-800-233-8928 or [email protected]


mailto:[email protected]

http://www.dce.unr.edu/hrm

http://www.srifoundation.org/

http://www.npi.org/

http://www.nps.gov/training/histpres

http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/

ArchaeofictionJudy Rose, Heritage Program Leader, Pacific Southwest Region

Foul Play Press: Margot Arnold has written several Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower mysteries. They are all published by Foul Play Press, from a small parent publisher, The Countryman Press of Woodstock, Vermont. They are on thick paperback stock, and appear to be from a British rather than anAmerican publisher. The books have limited distribution, so they may not be easy to find; however, I keep finding them at my local used bookstore in Sacramento.

The Who's Who at the front of the books provides very British synopses of Penny's and Toby's academic backgrounds, including all degrees and academic institutions, with Penny being an anthropologist and Toby an archaeologist, both teaching at Oxford University. Each of the books has at least passing references to, and some of them more intensively incorporate, anthropological and archaeological themes. In The Cape Cod Caper (copyright 1980, published in 1988 by Foul Play), Penny investigates the murder of a mutilated corpse temporarily hidden among the graves of an American Indian archaeological site. The investigation includes historical research in Italy to identify the corpse. You get tidbits of anthropology and archaeology, some comments related to the emerging Native American concerns about graves, and a lot of British anthropological and archaeological flavor.

☼☼☼☼☼☼☼


In Digging up Death, Triss Stein incorporates an archaeologicalexcavation into her mystery about a reporter investigating vandalism and murder at a construction site in New York City. So, in this one, you get a little bit of a taste of urban archaeology, at the site of a late 17th century tavern, reputedly favored by the pirate Captain Kidd, and perhaps harboring his lost treasure. But, the archaeology in this one is just a secondary storyline around which the mystery and duplicity revolve; even the archaeologist has motives beyond those originally revealed. Read it as an intriguing mystery, with a little archaeology thrown in to sweeten the plot. It has a 1998 copyright, with a 1999 publication date for Worldwide Mystery. Enjoy...

Meetings

The SAA meetings page: http://www.saa.org/Meetings/index.html

WAC-5, the Fifth World Archaeological Congress will be held in Washington, D.C. USA, June 21 - 26, 2003 in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History & National Museum of the American Indian and in collaboration with the Getty Conservation Institute

CALL FOR PROPOSALS THEMES, SESSIONS WITHIN ESTABLISHED THEMES, OR INDEPENDENT SESSIONSSend to: WAC-5 Program, Department of Anthropology, American University, Washington, D.C. 20016 USA, FAX: 202.885.1837 email [email protected] DEADLINES: for new themes: July 1st, 2002, for sessions: January 1st, 2003 Congress President: Richard West, Director, National Museum of the American Indian for more information, visit our web site http://www.american.edu/wac5

Crime


http://www.american.edu/wac5

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.saa.org/Meetings/index.html

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