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The Forest Service Heritage Program The Preserve America Report Presented to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation in fulfillment of Section 3 of Executive Order No. 13287 2011 Report on the Progress of Identification, Protection, Enhancement, and Use of Historic Properties United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service The Preserve America Report 1 Table of Contents I. The Forest Service Heritage Program ..................................................................................... 4 a. Responsibilities and Organization .................................................................................... 4 b. A Brief History of Purpose ................................................................................................. 6 II. Executive Order 13287—Preserve America ............................................................................ 7 a. Themes To Report Forest Service Progress ...................................................................... 7 i. Building Partnerships ................................................................................................ 7 ii. Enhancing and Improving Inventories of Historic Properties ................................. 8 iii. Integrating Stewardship Into Agency Planning ........................................................ 8 iv. Managing Assets ......................................................................................................... 8 III. State of the Forest Service Heritage Program ......................................................................... 9 a. Forest Service Manual for the Heritage Program .......................................................... 10 b. Infra—Forest Service Corporate Database ..................................................................... 11 c. New “Heritage Program Managed to Standard” Measure .............................................. 13 IV. Sharing Values With the Public and Building Partnerships ................................................. 14 a. Windows on the Past ....................................................................................................... 15 i. Passport in Time ....................................................................................................... 15 Exemplary PIT Projects ..................................................................................... 16 ii. HistoriCorps ............................................................................................................. 19 Exemplary HistoriCorps Projects ..................................................................... 20 iii. Heritage Expeditions ................................................................................................ 21 b. Northern Region Heritage Stewardship Enhancement Projects ................................... 22 c. Current Forest Service Partnerships .............................................................................. 22 V. Enhancing Inventory and Evaluation .................................................................................... 26 a. Specific Examples of the Enhancement of Inventories .................................................. 27 b. Specific Examples of the Enhancement of Evaluation ................................................... 28 VI. Integrating Stewardship Into Agency Planning .................................................................... 31 a. Programmatic Agreements and Historic Preservation Plans......................................... 33 VII. Managing Assets ..................................................................................................................... 35 a. Facility Decommissioning ............................................................................................... 36 b. Adaptive Use of Historic Properties ................................................................................. 37 i. Executive Order 13514 ............................................................................................. 37 ii. Recreation Cabin and Fire Lookout Rental Program .............................................. 38 iii. Historic Properties Adapted to Other Uses .............................................................. 40 c. Identifying Historic Properties With Critical Management Needs ................................ 43 d. Condition of Historic Properties on NFS Lands ............................................................. 44 VIII. Protection and Stewardship of Historic Properties ............................................................... 46 a. Volunteers and Partners Help Monitor and Protect Cultural Resources ....................... 47 b. Looting and Law Enforcement Support ......................................................................... 48 c. Archaeological Resources Protection Act Civil Cases..................................................... 50 d. Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act ............................................. 50 IX. Summary ................................................................................................................................. 52 Appendixes ........................................................................................................................................ 53 Appendix A–Forest Service Heritage Program Accomplishment Data ................................. 54 Appendix B–Forest Service National Historic Landmarks .................................................... 56 2 The Preserve America Report Tables, Figures, and Photographs Tables: 1. Heritage Stewardship Enhancement grant distributions ......................................................22 2. Inventory and evaluation summary of Forest Service accomplishments for FY 2010 and FY 2011 ...............................................................................................................26 3. Pacific Southwest Region Section 110 Plan 10-year goals .....................................................34 4. Forest Service Priority Heritage Assets by condition .............................................................44 5. NAGPRA repatriations by Forest Service region as of 2011 ...................................................50 6. Total NAGPRA repatriations by Forest Service by fiscal year .................................................51 Figures: 1. Forest Service regions ...............................................................................................................5 2. A balanced heritage program...................................................................................................10 3. Heritage Infra database. ...........................................................................................................11 4. Number of cultural resource records (in thousands) in the Infra Heritage Module by year, showing the progression of data population since 2002 ..............................12 Photographs: Howland Flat PIT, Plumas National Forest ......................................................................................16 Neil Weintraub, forest archaeologist, showing a student how to split willow to use to make a split twig figurine ..................................................................................................17 Wagon Trails III PIT Project ..............................................................................................................17 Petersburg Ranger District of the Tongass National Forest helping to foster knowledge of traditional lifeways through partnership with the Organized Village of Kake ...................................................................................................................................23 A high-elevation rock cairn documented on Baranof Island through a multiagency partnership ...................................................................................................................24 Vera Asp of Simon Fraser University and the Tahltan First Nations shows a point she has just discovered while participating in the Coffman Cove Community Archaeological Project in Alaska .......................................................................................................24 Sea kayak inventory survey-enhanced rock art in southeast Alaska ...............................................27 Archaeologists and volunteers record a sweat lodge on the Tusayan Ranger District ....................29 Chimney Rock Pueblo on the San Juan National Forest near Pagosa Springs, CO ........................29 The Mount St. Elias dancers at Dry Bay, Alaska ...............................................................................30 Multnomah Falls Lodge in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area in Oregon ...............31 The Tongass Ranger rests at anchor in Misty Fiords National Monument .....................................32 2010 Rehabilitation of Crocker Guard Station .................................................................................35 LEED Gold-certified and National Register-listed Koen Building, Ozark-St. Francis National Forest in Arkansas .................................................................................................37 The Preserve America Report 3 Robbs Peak Lookout and hut on the Eldorado National Forest in California .................................39 Keller Cabin Rehabilitation Project ..................................................................................................40 Interlaken Lodge on the Pike-San Isabel National
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