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TABLE OF CONTENTS I. MANAGEMENT SUMMARY ................................................................................................................. 1 II. INTRODUCTION AND SETTING ......................................................................................................... 2 Project Goals ............................................................................................................................................. 2 Environment: Climate, Topography, and Geology .................................................................................... 6 Geology ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 III. PREHISTORIC CONTEXT ................................................................................................................... 9 The Peopling of California ......................................................................................................................... 9 Local Archaeology ..................................................................................................................................... 9 Late Pleistocene .................................................................................................................................... 9 Early Holocene ...................................................................................................................................... 9 Middle Holocene ................................................................................................................................. 10 The Late Holocene .............................................................................................................................. 10 Cultural Context ...................................................................................................................................... 11 IV. HISTORIC CONTEXT ......................................................................................................................... 14 Spain ....................................................................................................................................................... 14 Mexico ..................................................................................................................................................... 14 The Rancho Period ............................................................................................................................. 14 The Rancho San Jacinto Viejo ............................................................................................................ 15 United States ........................................................................................................................................... 16 Local Development ............................................................................................................................. 16 Property History................................................................................................................................... 17 V. RESEARCH DESIGN ......................................................................................................................... 19 Regulatory Setting ............................................................................................................................... 19 Federal Level .......................................................................................................................................... 19 The National Register ......................................................................................................................... 19 National Registry of Natural Landmarks ............................................................................................. 20 State Level .............................................................................................................................................. 20 Local Level .............................................................................................................................................. 22 Predictive Model and Hypothesis ............................................................................................................ 22 VI. METHODS .......................................................................................................................................... 25 Record Searches .................................................................................................................................... 25 Eastern Information Center (EIC): Cultural Resources Record Search ............................................. 25 Sacred Lands File Search ................................................................................................................... 26 Archival Searches ............................................................................................................................... 26 Field and Survey Methods ...................................................................................................................... 26 VII. RESULTS ............................................................................................................................................ 27 Record Searches .................................................................................................................................... 27 Eastern Information Center (EIC): Cultural Resources Record Search ............................................. 27 Sacred Lands File Search ................................................................................................................... 37 Historic Records and Archival Results .................................................................................................... 39 Field and Survey Results ........................................................................................................................ 43 Predictive Model Results ......................................................................................................................... 47 VIII. ANALYSIS OF STUDY RESULTS ..................................................................................................... 49 Significance Criteria ................................................................................................................................ 49 National and State Significance .......................................................................................................... 50 Local Significance ............................................................................................................................... 51 Mitigation Analysis .................................................................................................................................. 51 Cultural Resources .............................................................................................................................. 51 Thresholds of Significance ...................................................................................................................... 52 IX. RECOMMENDED MITIGATION ......................................................................................................... 53 Cultural Resources .............................................................................................................................. 53 X. REPORT CONCLUSION .................................................................................................................... 54 XI. CERTIFICATION ................................................................................................................................ 55 XII. REFERENCES CITED ........................................................................................................................ 56 APPENDICES PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS SURVEY PHOTOS AND PHOTO LOG CONFIDENTIAL: DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION FORM (DPR) CONFIDENTIAL: NAHC SACRED LANDS FILE SEARCH AND TRIBAL RESPONSES CONFIDENTIAL: RECORD SEARCH RESULTS LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1. General location of proposed project area USGS 1979 Santa Ana 1:250,000 map. .................... 3 Figure 2. Map of project area location as noted on Hemet USGS 7.5' Quadrangles 1953 PR 1987. .......... 4 Figure 3. One proposed option for the San Jacinto Valley Academy expansion. Note, current campus is located in the north while the proposed expansion is to be on the southerly parcels. ................................. 5 Figure 4. View of project area vegetation looking east. ................................................................................ 6 Figure 5. Map of Southern California Ecoregion. .......................................................................................... 8 Figure 6: Map of the ancestral territories and the location of the project area (indicated with a star). ....... 13 Figure 7: Map of the California Ranchos. ................................................................................................... 15 Figure 8. Location of project are in relation to historic GLO and Plat maps. .............................................. 40 Figure 9. Location of project area in relation to historic USGS Quadrangles. ............................................ 41 Figure 10. Project area as seen on historic photos. ................................................................................... 42 Figure 11.