Services
Services
Natural and Cultural Resources
Heritage Historical Services staff prepares a broad range of natural resource management histories for private businesses and public agencies such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian tribes, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
Our ability to provide cost-effective services stems from our years of experience in working with public agencies, tribal councils and staff; our expertise in retrieving relevant documents in agency, area, and tribal offices; and our ability to identify and interview involved and interested parties. Our studies assist resource planning and policy evaluation by tracing the development of a corporation or agency and documenting the history of natural resource ownership, use, and management. They serve to inform other agencies and the public of forestry programs and of their positive effects on the local and regional economy.
Heritage has written many book-length forest management histories or updates.
Case Study:
Excerpt from the Quinault Forest History
Heritage also provides professional historical consulting services to help clients meet requirements of federal and state historic preservation laws. Our cultural resource specialists inventory such resources as historic roads and trails, trading posts and forts, mines and mill sites, logging camps, ghost towns, ranches, homesteads, industrial sites, urban sites, military installations, and historic districts.
Among our services are historic overviews and context statements, historic resource surveys, National Register evaluation and nomination, mitigation plan and research design and geographic information system (GIS) data. We develop historic preservation plans, historical and architectural overviews, historic cultural resource inventories, and HABS/HAER documentation.
Case Study:
Cultural Resource Survey and Architectural Inventory, 2001
In 2001, Heritage Research Center contracted with the Colorado Community College and Occupational Education System to survey and evaluate 25 historic and non-historic structures scattered on campuses within the System. The structures represented numerous architectural styles, materials and periods of construction. Heritage used records and information held by the respective colleges, local archives and libraries, and knowledgeable staff to document the history of individual structures.
Heritage established historic contexts for the roles of junior/community colleges in advancing education in Colorado, individual schools in their communities and regions, and individual structures. Evaluation of each building included comparison of original and current uses for several structures built for other purposes, such as a church in one instance, to assess significance. Heritage completed Cultural Resource Survey Architectural Inventory Forms for each resource, but determined that only seven structures had sufficient age, integrity and signifcance to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.