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 paleontological 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.

Fulfill responsibilities to appropriate American Indian groups regarding heritage and religious concerns.

Identify paleontological resources, manage them for their scientific, educational, and recreational values, and protect significant sites and specimens.

Land Use Allocations

Cultural resources are allocated to specific use categories based on scientific, heritage, and interpretive values.

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.

Management Action/Direction

Conduct systematic inventories of areas likely to contain cultural resources.

Evaluate cultural resource sites to determine their potential for contributing to public, cultural heritage, and/or scientific purposes.

Develop cultural resource management plans for areas with fragile resources or intensive prehistoric or historic use. These areas will include Golden Bar, the North Umpqua River corridor, the Little River/Wolf Creek area, the Middle Creek drainage, Camas Valley, the White Rock/Deadman Mountain/Deadman Creek area, and the mining areas in the southern portion of the district.

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

Develop partnerships with local Native American groups and other interested parties to accomplish cultural resource objectives.

Monitor cultural resources being impacted by unauthorized use, such as 35DO100, 35DO147, 35DO153, and 35DO435, and take appropriate law enforcement actions.

Implement physical protection measures, such as riprapping and barrier installations, to reduce deterioration.

Develop memoranda of understanding with federally recognized Indian tribes and other Indian groups so that their heritage and religious concerns may be appropriately considered. These groups may include the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, and the Coquille Indian Tribe.

Acquire significant cultural resource properties for public, cultural heritage, and scientific purposes. These properties include 35DO17, 35DO19, 35DO291, 35DO431, and the portion of 35DO383 located on nonfederal land.

Develop province level inventory plans.

Investigate landscape features such as bogs, ponds, and packrat middens, as well as 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.

Maintain an updated record of paleontological sites in the Roseburg District and manage the sites as appropriate.