Klamath Falls Record of Decision and Resource Management Plan

Klamath Falls Record of Decision

Klamath Falls District Resource Management Plan Table of Contents:

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Cultural Resources Including American Indian Values

Objectives

Identify cultural resource localities and manage them for public, scientific, and cultural heritage purposes.

Conserve and protect designated cultural resources for future generations.

Support ecosystem management by providing information on long-term environmental change and the interactions between humans and the environment in the past.

Continue to fulfill government-to-government and trust responsibilities to appropriate American Indian tribes regarding heritage and religious concerns.

Land Use Allocations

Sites with significant values will be protected from management actions and from vandalism to the extent possible. Cultural resource sites are not mapped in this plan or described in detail due to the sensitivity of resource values.

The Klamath Falls Resource Area manages more than 400 cultural resource sites. Two of these areas are now in the process of nomination to the National Register of Historic Places as archeological districts and cultural landscapes.

Management Action/Direction

Identify and evaluate Native American traditional use areas requiring protection and management during watershed analysis or site-specific planning.

Evaluate cultural resource sites to determine their potential for contributing to public, cultural heritage, and/or scientific purposes. Evaluate the Klamath River Canyon and lands on Bryant Mountain for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places as Archaeological Districts.

Investigate landscape features such as bogs, ponds, and packrat middens, and cultural sites that contain information regarding long-term environmental change.

Develop mechanisms for describing past landscapes and the role of humans in shaping those landscapes,

Address the management of cultural resources through watershed analyses and project plans.

Develop educational and interpretive programs to increase public awareness and appreciation of cultural resources, as part of the "Adventures in the Past" initiative, and the "Heritage Education" program.

Develop partnerships with local American Indian tribes and other interested parties to accomplish cultural resource objectives.

Take appropriate law enforcement or other actions when necessary to protect cultural resources. (Such actions may include physical protection measures such as riprapping and barrier installations to reduce deterioration.)

Work with federally recognized American Indian tribes to develop Memoranda Of Understanding so that their heritage and religious concerns may be appropriately considered. These tribes may include but are not limited to the Klamath Tribes, the Shasta Tribe, the Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Consolidated Modoc and Paiute Tribe.

Consider acquiring significant cultural resource properties for public, cultural heritage, and scientific purposes.