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Cultural Resources

JBR Environmental Consultants, Inc. provides cultural resource services through its professional staff in the Pacific Northwest and through teaming partners throughout the JBR footprint. Our expertise includes all aspects of cultural resource management, from feasibility assessments and historical property inventories to complex archaeological excavations.

JBR staff has provided cultural resource services on transportation, infrastructure, energy, development, resource inventory, due diligence, and habitat restoration projects for public and private clients. Our staff has also coordinated with many federal, state, and municipal agencies, including State Historic Preservation Offices, Departments of Transportation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Federal Aviation Administration.

Meet JBR's Cultural Resources Team

Cultural Resource and Archaeology Services:


Regulatory Compliance

  • National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA)
  • Section 106 and 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966
  • Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act of 1966
  • Environmental Impact Statement and Environmental Assessment Chapter Preparation
  • Executive Order 05-05
  • Memorandum of Agreements (MOA)/Programmatic Agreements (PA) development
  • Environmental Classification Summaries
  • Due Diligence
  • Mitigation Recommendations
  • Local regulation Compliance
  • Gap Analyses


Archaeological Resources

  • Recording Prehistoric, Ethnohistoric, and Historic sites
  • National Register of Historic Places Evaluations
  • Pedestrian Surveys
  • Subsurface Sampling
  • Testing and Data Recovery Excavations
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Construction Monitoring
  • Artifact Analyses and Illustrations


Historic Buildings and Structures

  • Architectural Descriptions
  • Historical Property Inventories
  • Chain-of-Title Searches
  • Background and Archival Research
  • National, State, and Local Register Evaluations
  • Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER) recording


Traditional Cultural Properties

  • Native American Tribal Consultation Assistance
  • Ethnographic Research
  • Oral History Interviews


Historical Research

  • Federal, State, and Local Archival Research
  • Literature Reviews
  • Historic Land Use Research


Agency Experience

JBR staff has extensive experience working with federal, state, and local agencies, as well as with Tribal governments and representatives including:

  • State Historic Preservation Offices
  • City and county governments
  • Federal Highway Administration and State Departments of Transportation
  • US Army Corps of Engineers
  • US Forest Service
  • US Environmental Protection Agency and State Department of Health
  • US Department of Agriculture Rural Development
  • US Department of Veterans Affairs
  • US Department of Defense
  • Bureau of Land Management
  • National Park Service
  • Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  • Federal Communications Commission
  • US Department of Justice
  • Tribal Councils, Historic Preservation Officers, and cultural representatives
  • Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council
  • Department of Ecology

 

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Services

Cultural Resources Projects

Amp Resources Stillwater II Geothermal Power Plant UEPA Environmental Statement, Fallon, NV
JBR helped measure the impact of this proposed 30 MW geothermal power plant.
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Drum Mountains and Whirlwind Valley Geothermal Exploration Projects, Delta, UT
JBR prepared Operation Plans and an EA and conducted baseline field surveys for cultural resources, wildlife habitats, and special status species for this geothermal exploration project.
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Rose & Alder Street Improvements – Cultural Resources Survey, Walla Walla, WA
JBR conducted architectural inventories of historical buildings in downtown Walla Walla as part of a cultural resources survey to evaluate National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) listing eligibility.
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Historic Property Inventory – Historic Properties Evaluation, Lacey, WA
JBR’s cultural resources staff worked with the City of Lacey to develop significance criteria for its historic buildings, identify the first set of properties for their historic register, record the first 50 properties, and identify future phases of historic documentation as part of a grant received from the Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation.
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Smith Island Habitat Restoration & Dike Improvements – Cultural Resource Assessments, Snohomish County, WA
JBR provided a cultural resources reconnaissance-level survey for this habitat restoration project requiring U.S. Army Corps of Engineer permit extension.
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Fiber Optic Line Construction – Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Survey, WA State
JBR conducted a cultural resources reconnaissance survey for several segments of fiber optic line construction proposed by Northwest Open Access Network and funded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
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Cornwall Avenue Bridge Replacement – Cultural Resources Assessment, Bellingham, WA
JBR conducted a cultural resources assessment for this bridge replacement project being completed in support of the City and Port of Bellingham’s downtown waterfront redevelopment master plan.
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Environmental Permitting and Documentation for Pend Orielle Telephone Fiber Line, Pend Oreille County, WA
JBR provided environmental documentation and permitting services for 11 miles of fiber optic cable.
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