Public Archaeology in the Nine Mile Canyon
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PRICE, Utah — The Bureau of Land Management Price Field Office and Arizona State University Center for Sustainable Tourism invite the public to attend Nine Mile Canyon Stewardship Day, a free event, this Saturday, Sept. 16. The event is hosted through Project Discovery Utah, a non-profit archaeology education program for high school students. For more information about this event, visit: http://www.facebook.com/ProjectDiscoveryUtah.
Stewardship Day is a capstone event for an ongoing partnership between the BLM, ASU and Project Discovery Utah. Multiple partners are teaming up to engage volunteers in discovering clues about the Fremont people who lived in Nine Mile Canyon centuries ago.
An excavation project in Nine Mile Canyon kicked off on Sept. 8 and will end in mid-October. Throughout this effort, archaeologists will be working with students from Carbon High School students, the American Leadership Academy of Spanish Fork and the Nebo Indian Education Parent Committee. Montgomery Archaeological Consultants – a private archaeological firm based in Moab – will oversee all excavation and data collection.
For more information, contact Christine Vogt, Center Director and Professor, Arizona State University at (810) 588-3293 or chrisv@asu.edu; Amber Koski, BLM-Price Field Office at (435) 636-3618 or akoski@blm.gov; or Lindsey Kester, Project Discovery Utah at lindseykester@gmail.com. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to leave a message or question for Amber Koski. The FRS is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The BLM will reply during normal business hours.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land located primarily in 12 western states, including Alaska, on behalf of the American people. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. Our mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of America’s public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.