Lone Mountain Archaeological Services
Lone Mountain is a certified small woman-owned business dedicated to conducting efficient, practical, and professional cultural resource compliance work since 1994. Lone Mountain became an employee-owned consulting firm in January 2010, we are committed to assisting our clients in achieving compliance with the laws and regulations that govern cultural resources. Our staff of archaeologists and technical specialists has extensive experience in many western states including New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, and Kansas. Our main office is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico with a branch office in El Paso, Texas that provides a convenient base from which to work. We have direct knowledge of the diversity present in the legal and regulatory environment as it relates to cultural resource management. Our experience working with state, federal, tribal, and municipal agencies allows us to expedite projects in a timely fashion at a reasonable cost to our clients.
Services include all aspects of cultural resource management including survey (archival research and literature review, sample surveys, and intensive pedestrian surveys), testing, data recovery, National Register evaluations, analysis of prehistoric and historic artifact assemblages, architectural analysis, ethnographic studies, geomorphology, and more.
CULTURAL RESOURCE SERVICES
Lone Mountain is a full service cultural resource firm offering a wide range of services relating to cultural resource management, Native American consultation, and ethnography. Governmental agencies are required to identify, evaluate, and preserve significant cultural resources on lands under their jurisdiction and to insure that government funded, initiated, authorized, or sponsored activities do not negatively affect significant cultural resources. Such requirements are mandated by the Antiquities Act of 1906 (Public Law 59-209), Historic Sites Act of 1935 (Public Law 74-292), National Historical Preservation Act of 1966 as amended (Public Law 89-665), National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (Public Law 91-190), Preservation of Historic and Archaeological Data, as amended (Public Law 93-291), American Indian Religious Freedom Act (Public Law 95-341), Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 (Public Law 96-95), and other legislation relating to cultural resources.
Lone Mountain's cultural resource program is designed to assist our clients in achieving compliance with these laws and regulations in a cost-effective, scientifically credible manner. Our goal is to satisfy the needs of our clients as well as the regulatory agencies with whom we work. We always keep the interests of our clients at the forefront while providing solutions that assure compliance with the regulatory requirements.
Our team of experienced staff effectively manages a wide variety of cultural resource projects. This team includes archaeologists, historians, and ethnographers with regional specialties relevant to various areas throughout the West. As a result of years of field, analytical, and management experience our specialists have developed efficient and practical approaches to cultural resource solutions. Our staff is experienced with the design and implementation of multidisciplinary, complex cultural resource projects involving multiple elements and phases. Moreover, such experience makes our staff highly effective in assisting our clients in problem solving and coordination with agencies and regulators. We are committed to first class service for each of our clients and will accept nothing less than their complete satisfaction.
PERMITS HELD
Lone Mountain holds State, Forest, and BLM permits and repository agreements in many western states including New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and Texas, as well as on Navajo Nation Lands and with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Specific to New Mexico, we hold BLM permits in every resource area for both Principal Investigators/Project Directors and Supervisory Archeologists, for all National Forests, and on all Tribal Lands through a blanket permits with the BIA.
