Minutes, Cultural and Historical Resources Technical Advisory Team
March 6, 2000

The Cultural and Historical Resources Technical Advisory Team met in regular session in Room 309 at the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona Campus, Tucson, Arizona on Monday, March 6, 2000 at 2:00 p.m. Those present and absent were listed as follows:

Present:
Dr. Paul Fish, Arizona State Museum (Chair)
Dr. Beth Grindell, Arizona State Museum
Ms. Mary Farrell, Coronado National Forest
Mr. Peter Steere, Tohono O'odham Nation Cultural Preservation Office
Mr. Joe Joaquin, Tohono O'odham Nation Cultural Preservation Office
Ms. Linda Mayro, Pima County Archaeological and Historic Preservation Office
(Ms. Mayro joined at the conclusion of the meeting)
Mr. David Cushman, Pima County Archaeological and Historic Preservation Office

Absent:
Ms. Susan Wells, National Parks Service
Mr. Jerry Kyle, Arizona Historical Society
Mr. Max Witkind, Bureau of Land Management
Ms. Marty McCune, City of Tucson

There were two members of the public present:

Mr. Henry Wallace, Desert Archaeology, Inc.
Dr. Jonathan Mabry, Desert Archaeology, Inc.

CALL TO ORDER

The meeting was called to order by Paul Fish at approximately 2:05 p.m.

OLD BUSINESS

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM FEBRUARY 14, 2000 MEETING

A quorum was not present at the time the meeting was called to order. David Cushman informed the Team that he had not finished preparing a draft of the minutes anyway. The Chair postponed approval of the February 14, 2000 minutes until the next meeting.

NEW BUSINESS

UPDATES
Ms. Mayro was not present at the time the meeting began, so Mr. Cushman suggested that he speak on the next topic.
4. SUBAREA REPORTS/SITE DISTRIBUTION/SITE PREDICTION

Mr. Cushman presented a short update to the Team on the San Pedro planning unit report, a draft of which he handed out. He explained the tables, figures, and use of the data in the report. He noted that the survey information on the San Pedro was present in the GIS print out that the county produced using the ASM AZSITE data base, but that the sites were not also plotted. He requested comments from the Team, especially the format since he plans to use this for future reports on the other subareas. Comments due by March 8th. He informed the team that he will be completing reports on the Altar Valley and the Cienega Rincon subarea by Friday, March 10.

Mr. Wallace suggested he had more data available for Table 2 showing the temporal and functional breakdown of the archaeological sites; although it is too late to substantively modify this draft, he would be happy to provide it for the next iteration.

Mr. Cushman asked for suggestions for the March 25 public presentations to the
Steering Committee. Mr. Wallace offered a slide of the Redington ball court that could be scanned and used in a powerpoint presentation.

Dr. Grindell commented that she could fix the problem with the survey and site data for the small portion of the San Pedro River project that is part of Pima County. She was at a loss as to why the site data didn't print noting that the data were in the AZSITE data base. She thought maybe the reason there was this problem had to do with the way the data were supplied via the Arizona State Museum. She will look into it.

Mr. Wallace said he may have some data already prepared as graphic files, that could be used. He also offered to provide UTM data on site locations if this would help to prepare a site distribution map for the report. Mr. Cushman said would need to check with John Regan about whether we have the capability to create a data layer with UTMs.

Linda Mayro joined the meeting late, and provided her update that she would have presented under agenda item #3. She told the Team that Pima County is preparing a presentation to the Steering Committee meeting for March 25. The Technical Advisory Teams will present baseline information with a focus on quantifiable, objective data on each of the first three subareas: the San Pedro, the Altar Valley and the Cienega Rincon Valley. County staff is preparing preliminary reports on each of the six planning elements, including ranches and cultural resources, which will be about 10 pages in length, with maps and figures. The April Steering Committee meeting will focus on the Upper and Middle Santa Cruz subareas and maybe the Tortolita Fan subarea. The regional synthetic reports on ranching and cultural resources are due in June. County staff will be compiling this information in May. She then added that the Notice of Intent to pursue the Environmental Impact Statement for the SDCP will be published in the Federal Register in June.

Mr. Cushman reported that the NCPTT has informed him that the county's grant application to develop a probability model has been received and deemed complete. Now it must go through the review process. The county should hear about the grant later this summer.

Just before adjournment, Mr. Wallace raised a concern about the survey map Mr. Cushman included in his draft report on the San Pedro subarea showing site locations at a gross scale. He questioned whether this map could be used to locate sites on the ground and whether this might pose a security risk to the sites. There was some discussion about this. Mr. Cushman thought that because there were no good landmarks on the map and given its scale, finding any one site based on the map would be hard to do. There was agreement that showing site locations in this manner during the short presentation before the Steering Committee would not be a problem. Mr. Cushman did admit, however, that he had planned to use the map in the report to be made available to the public, but that now he would have to reconsider.

NEXT MEETING

Next meeting will be on Monday, April 3rd, 2000 at 10:30 a.m. at the public works center room A. Possible topics for next meeting include further discussion of how to
assign value to cultural resources.

6. ADJOURNMENT

As there was no further business to come before the Cultural and Historic Resources Technical Advisory Team, the meeting was adjourned at 2:55 p.m.

(Notes taken by Mary M. Farrell, Archaeologist, Coronado National Forest)