Overview And Inventory Of Cultural Resources In The Malheur Basin Project Southeastern Oregon PDF Download

This report describes the results of a cultural resources survey on 1,220 acres in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge which are being considered for a land exchange. The project area is located in the Diamond Valley of the Harney Basin which was formerly part of the cattle range of the French-Glenn Livestock Company and later the Pacific Livestock Company. An intensive shovel probing of the area yielded no cultural resource sites in the Diamond Swamp lowlands which comprise 90% of the project area. On the remaining acreage of higher shrub steppe, however, six archaeological sites and two historic sites were recorded. Four of the prehistoric sites and one historic site dating from the turn of the century warrant testing to determine whether they are eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.