GeomorphIS Team to Conduct Encroachment Survey for USFS North Dakota

The U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Intermountain Region, has tasked GeomorphIS to conduct a Class I and Class III Cultural Resources Inventory and Damage Assessment in support of possible land encroachment in the Little Missouri National Grassland, McKenzie County, North Dakota. The team includes GeomorphIS, Hope Archaeology Inc. (HAI), and U.S. West Research (USWR). The team is tasked with identifying any cultural resources within the extent of the possible land encroachment on USFS managed lands; identifying the full extent of the possible encroachment; documenting the current conditions of any previously recorded or newly identified cultural resources and producing, or updating, relevant North Dakota Cultural Resources Survey Site Forms; documenting disturbance (impacts) to any cultural resources resulting from the possible encroachment; recommending determinations of eligibility for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places for cultural resources (to the extent possible); and producing an archaeological damage assessment.