Meet JBR's New Cultural Resources Group

To better serve our clients in the Pacific Northwest and throughout the JBR footprint, we’re excited to introduce our new Cultural Resources Group. They, along with our teaming partners, will be assisting our clients with their cultural resource needs throughout the West.

JBR’s cultural resource professionals are focused on our clients' compliance needs. Their expertise includes all aspects of cultural resource management, from basic assessments and historical property inventories, to complex archaeological excavations on transportation, infrastructure, energy, development, resource inventory, and habitat restoration projects for public and private clients.

Cultural Resource Services:

• Federal/State Regulatory Compliance/Due Diligence
• Archaeological Resources
• Historic Structure Evaluations and HABS/HAER
• Traditional Cultural Properties
• Historical Research
• Tribal Consultation Assistance

JBR’s cultural resource professionals bring their considerable experience in the Pacific Northwest for your compliance needs. Their expertise includes all aspects of cultural resource management, from basic assessments and historical property inventories, to complex archaeological excavations on transportation, infrastructure, energy, development, resource inventory, and habitat restoration projects for public and private clients.

JBR’s cultural resources team brings over 65 years of combined experience.

Linda Naoi Goetz
22 years of experience
Linda is an expert in Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, Washington State Executive Order 05-05, Section 4(f), NEPA/SEPA, and local regulation compliance throughout the Pacific Northwest.  She has directed research and documentation including archaeological / architectural surveys, testing and data recovery excavations, prehistoric and historic artifact analysis, tribal consultation, and oral histories for mitigation recommendations, technical reports, and sections for Environmental Assessments, Environmental Impact Statements, Environmental Classification Summaries, and SEPA Checklists.

Thomas C. Rust, Ph.D.
16 years of experience
Tom has served as Principal Investigator on numerous cultural resource assessments throughout the Pacific Northwest in compliance with federal and state regulations including Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, NEPA, Section 4(f), and Washington State Executive Order 05-05, and SEPA, as well as under local regulations.  In addition to his archaeological background, he has documented vernacular residential and agricultural buildings, bridges, commercial buildings, and irrigation structures at the reconnaissance and intensive levels, identifying historical trends in settlement, land use, and ethnic affiliations.

Douglas F. Tingwall
21 years of experience
Doug has studied and documented numerous prehistoric and historic sites and cultural materials of the Columbia Plateau, Great Basin, Northwest Coast, and Plains Culture Areas including: Paleoindian-ethnohistoric occupation sites, tipi rings, prehistoric quarries, toolstone scatters, shell middens, rockshelters, rock art, stone alignments, cairns/rockpiles, bison jumps, stone and wood fish weirs, culturally modified trees, prehistoric housepits, Traditional Cultural Properties, and various historic structures and features.

Kara M. Kanaby
8 years of experience
Kara specializes in historical archaeology and has experience documenting historic and prehistoric cultural material in the Pacific Northwest and northern California.  She has experience in all aspects of cultural resource projects including: conducting background research, archaeological surveys, subsurface testing, and data recovery excavation; analyzing historic artifacts; documenting historical structures; and writing professional reports.