SW Jemez CFLR: Cultural Resources Preservation as

part of Forest & Watershed Restoration

Connie ConstanSanta Fe National Forest

Ana SteffenValles Caldera National Preserve

Monitoring Goals and ObjectivesGoals:• Increase the resilience of cultural resources to natural disturbances, • Protect sites from impacts during restoration treatments actions, • Provide for the sustainability of traditional cultural properties and

other resources associated with traditional practices.

Objectives: • Account for cultural resources and potential effects through

inventory and assessments,• Minimize fire effects by reducing fuel loadings on CR sites,• Avoid or control erosion at archaeological sites, especially to

protect subsurface deposits,• Maintain forests that provide continued availability to engage in

traditional practices.

Cultural Resources Activities

• Inventory: identify and document sites within planning areas

• Assessment: standardized assessment of cultural resource sensitivity, fuel loadings, and erosion risks, prioritize protection locations and actions; develop treatment plans for protection

• Archaeological site treatments: avoid site impacts, adjust treatment areas and activities, reduce fuel loading,

• Tribal consultation: incorporate tribal concerns and recommendations in planning and implementation; build tribal partnerships

Inventory, Assessment, and Monitoring

CR Activity (2010-2014) SFNF VCNP Jemez Pueblo

Cultural resources inventory(acres surveyed) 12,300 7,100 636Sites documented during inventory (# of sites) 464 187 31Site assessments prior to forest & watershed restoration treatments(#s sites)

460 160 33

Protective treatment at CR sites(# sites) 800 104 30Post-fire monitoring for effects(#s sites) 225 60 --

Fire/Rx monitoring locations(# installations) 12 locations 2 locations --

Erosion monitoring (# installations) 13 locations 7 locations --

SW Jemez CFLR

Cultural Resource

Monitoring Locations

Erosion monitoring+ Fire/Rx monitoring Wildfire

Rx/managed fire

Reducing Fuels at Cultural Resource Sites

Fire and Prescribed Burn Monitoring

Pino Fire 2014 Video (site 2815)

Post-Fire Cultural Resource Monitoring

Pino Fire 2014 Video (site 2787)

Post-Fire Cultural Resource Monitoring

Joint Fire Science Program ArcBurn, and CFLR Adaptive Management

Linkages between CFLR monitoring and ArcBurn Project:• Quantify effects of heat exposure: temperature and duration• CFLR provides field/prescribed burning contexts• ArcBurn provides lab/controlled furnace and burn bed contexts

• Examine real-world interaction of fuels and environmental variables for differing types of archaeological resources

→ Use CFLR field outcomes to refine lab experiments

• Lab experiments and field monitoring outcomes inform on fuel treatments on sites and Rx burn actions/prescriptions:

→ Use lab and field outcomes to adjust protective measures→ Assess methods and costs for archaeological site treatment→ Improve site protective treatments (e.g., stumps)