Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Monitoring
BAER Crews
The “Old Fire”
Crosses the Rim
of the World
Highway
Contingency fire-control line bulldozed
through Pan Hot Springs Site
Evaluating damage
at the Pan Hot
Springs Site
Sierra Ancha Fire Analysis
Sierra Ancha Fire Analysis Study
• Prepared regional overview:
– To assess potential for presence of fire sensitive
heritage resources;
– Analyzed records from a total of 798 archaeological
sites and 342 archaeological survey and excavation
projects encompassing an area of almost 194,000
acres;
– Gathered information on hundreds of unrecorded
historical period site locations.
• Conducted pedestrian surveys:
– To determine presence of fire sensitive resources in
targeted areas suggested by overview.
• Conducted GIS-study
– To depict confirmed locations of fire sensitive
resources and possible locations of other resources
Al Rose Cabin, last
surviving structure from the
Pleasant Valley War,
burned down by lightning
strike, August 1998, during
Sierra Ancha Fire Analysis
study.
CALFIRE Archaeology Program
• Identified 166 archaeological sites and 29
historical buildings on properties under
CALFIRE jurisdiction;
• Developed program to manage and protect
these heritage resources;
• Provides archaeological training to CAL FIRE
staff, Registered Professional Foresters, fire-
fighters, and resource professionals working in
the private sector;
• Trains staff and contract archaeologists to work
with fire fighters to protect heritage resources
during fire-fighting activities.
Conclusions
• Collect existing available data to develop detailed
and comprehensive overviews of heritage
resources;
• Identify those that are especially sensitive to fire
damage;
• Develop measures to protect fire sensitive
resources;
• Provide locational maps of heritage resources to
fire-fighting personnel when incidents occur;
• Cross-train fire-fighters to recognize and avoid
archaeological sites;
• When damage cannot be avoided, develop
measures for evaluation and stabilization;
• Also, deal with archaeological sites that might be
impacted by stabilization or rehabilitation efforts.