Cultural Resources Practitioners is a certified Small Business dedicated to the management of California’s diverse cultural resources. We employ experts in the profession who provide quality cultural resources management (CRM) services to a variety of clients including private developers, landowners, other CRM firms, and local, state and federal agencies.
Cultural Resources Practitioners, LLC
Desktop Reviews & Sensitivity Assessments
- Buried site (geoarchaeological) sensitivity assessments
- Built environment sensitivity assessments
- Paleontological sensitivity assessments
- Desktop review of publicly accessible maps, literature, aerial imagery, and listing from other online databases
- Record and analyze paleosols (formally stable ground surfaces)
- Identify an analyze natural vs. cultural (archaeological) site formation processes
- Paleoenvironment reconstruction
Cultural Resources Management Services
CHRIS REcord Searches
- CHRIS Record Searches
- Records Search Result letters
- Records Search Results Report Sections
- Records Search Result Maps
GEoArchaeology
Archaeology
- Reconnaissance Surveys / Inventory (Phase 1)
- Testing / Evaluation (Phase 2)
- Data Recovery (Phase 3)
- Construction monitoring
GIS Mapping & Data Management
- Project and Resource location / boundary mapping
- Survey coverage mapping
- Record Search results mapping
- Site and artifact distribution and predictive modeling
- Georeferencing (historic-maps overlaying project areas)
- Data management (shapefiles, metadata, spreadsheets)
Our staff consists of professionals that exceed the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualification Standards in Archaeology. The following is a general overview of the services we provide.
Compliance Reports
- Preparation of CRM environmental compliance documents (e.g., EIR / EIS, ISMND, and Phase I, II, and III technical reports).
- In compliance with local, state, and/or federal law(s) (e.g., CEQA, NHPA Section 106, and NEPA).