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Excavation Experience <br /> Large-scale excavation projects undertaken by the firm include the following: <br /> North Fork Stanislaus River Hydroelectric Development Project <br /> Thirteen prehistoric sites were excavated over a 3-year period in areas slated to be <br /> developed under the $640-million North Fork project. Significant finds,including the oldest <br /> known structure in North America and the earliest occupied locale in the Sierra Nevada <br /> foothills, were discovered during this investigation. <br /> Buchanan Reservoir Salvage Project <br /> This project was initiated by the Corps to obtain additional data from three <br /> significant archeological sites located in the minimum pool impound on the Chowchilla <br /> River in the western Sierra Nevada foothills. The principal archeologist defined research <br /> rationale, organized the professional crew, and directed the 1975 excavations of CA-Mad- <br /> 116, CA-Mad-133, and CA-Mad-159. <br /> Cattle Timber Sale <br /> The project involved the test excavation of CA-Mad-448, a site that may be adversely <br /> affected by construction of an access road to the harvest area. The site was evaluated in <br /> terms of National Register of Historic Places criteria, and a report was prepared detailing <br /> research rationale, methodology, results, and recommendations. The site is located at <br /> 7,000 feet elevation in the central Sierra Nevada. <br /> Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie <br /> An intensive archeological survey was conducted for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation <br /> along the 200-foot-wide Kern Valley Edison Company transmission corridor,which traverses <br /> 560 miles of western Nevada from the Arizona border to the Oregon border. The study was <br /> designed to locate and evaluate significance of cultural resources in the corridor. Those 21 <br /> sites that yielded insufficient surface evidence for an evaluation were test excavated to <br /> collect data for further determination. The final report was issued in 1977. <br /> Burns Valley Sites, CA-Lak-741 and CA-Lak-742 <br /> Fieldwork was initiated after identification of the two sites during a cultural resource <br /> assessment. It was determined that they would be adversely affected by the proposed <br /> construction of effluent disposal areas, which were a part of the expansion and upgrading <br /> V-11 <br />