tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30886016297588232902024-03-13T04:45:53.377-07:00Sagebrush ConsultantsSagebrush Consultantshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04460196938630418376noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088601629758823290.post-29184916508589281792016-01-06T23:16:00.000-08:002016-01-14T10:05:58.048-08:00CCRG Rebranding: Introducing Commonwealth Heritage Group<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Happy New Year!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
me, the turning of the New Year is always a time of reflection and a time to
look forward to ways to make this year better than the last.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am proud to announce that on January 7th,
2016, all our companies (Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group, Coastal
Carolina Research, Sagebrush Consultants and John Milner Associates (JMA)) will
be operating under a new name: Commonwealth Heritage Group, Inc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will help all our offices work more
collaboratively and allow us to offer our clients streamlined services with a
nationwide footprint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look forward to
working with all of you during this exciting new chapter.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Andrew J. Weir, President<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Commonwealth Heritage Group, Inc.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.commonwealthheritagegroup.com/">www.commonwealthheritagegroup.com</a></span>Sagebrush Consultantshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04460196938630418376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088601629758823290.post-58067014928570440812015-12-18T09:27:00.000-08:002015-12-18T09:27:08.069-08:00Wintertime at Sagebrush Consultants
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Winter has arrived in northern Utah. We just experienced the
biggest snowstorm in the last three years here. This is a time when Sagebrush
Consultants' crews have completed work in the field and are working on reports
and beginning to focus on what we can do to help our clients be productive and
competitive in the next year. It's also a time to reflect on how we have helped
those same clients this year. Here are a few types of projects we carried out
this year to help our clients move forward: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the spring we completed archaeological and architectural historical surveys for several proposed road widening projects in Springville, Spanish Fork and Logan. Through visual inspection of undisturbed areas adjacent to </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">existing roads and recording of houses and other structures that are more than 50 years old, we help identify and preserve the history of Utah, while providing clearance for ongoing project work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Many other projects this spring involved walkovers for small wetland areas from central Utah to the far north of the state where housing developments are planned. Most of these projects are undertaken in response to </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Corps of Engineers requirements to developers. In most cases, there is little or nothing to report and our clients move forward with their projects. In a few cases, we find archaeological and historical sites which are usually avoided.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the summer field crews completed additional survey in northern Arizona for the Lake Powell Pipeline and recorded more than 100 archaeological sites, primarily prehistoric Puebloan ruins, most more than a 1000 years </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">old. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps, roads, bridges, culverts and many other historic sites were also identified and recorded in advance of plans to construction the pipeline and associated facilities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the fall we had crews covering several thousand acres of Sage Grouse habitat in Tooele and Box Elder counties and another crew surveying roads and parcels in Sawtooth National Forest north of Fairfield, Idaho. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sagebrush carries out a wide range of types of cultural
resource projects throughout the Intermountain West. This year they were
located in northern Arizona, Utah and Idaho. In past years we have ranged
into Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada and even as far as New Mexico, Oregon and
California. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">If you need or are interested in finding out more about our
services, please email us or give us a call. We would love to speak to you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Michael R. Polk, M.A., RPA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Principal Archaeologist/Regional Director<o:p></o:p></span><br />
Sagebrush Consultantshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04460196938630418376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088601629758823290.post-57191718971411759712014-09-23T09:31:00.001-07:002014-09-23T09:31:31.164-07:00Sagebrush Consultants…moving into the future as part of CCRG, Inc.
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fall is almost upon us. In
the Intermountain region, that generally signals a dramatic increase in
cultural resources project work, particularly in the energy sector and for
those clients who need to get development and maintenance cultural resources
projects undertaken and completed prior to the coming snow season.
For more than 30 years, this has been the time when Sagebrush Consultants has
been at its busiest, and this year is no exception. We are undertaking
extensive surveys of phosphate mine areas in southeastern Idaho, oil well
locations in Colorado, Utah and Nevada, wetland and recreational development
projects, and other water development projects in central Utah. This, in
addition to, moving forward to complete reporting on excavations at prehistoric
sites in Wasatch County, Utah; at the new Courthouse in Salt Lake City; and the
massive Lake Powell Pipeline Project in southern Utah and northern Arizona, a
project that has been ongoing since 2008. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It's been just over a year now,
since Sagebrush was acquired by Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group, Inc.
(CCRG). Sagebrush personnel and operations remain largely the same as
before. Sagebrush provides clients all cultural resources services needed
to address requirements of the National Historic Preservation Act, Section 106,
and related Federal regulations, as well as State Regulations. In
addition, Sagebrush provides paleontological services as needed. These
services include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">1.
Archaeological surveys <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">2.
Test archaeological excavations<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">3.
Full scale archaeological excavations<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">4.
Reconnaissance and intensive level architectural evaluations<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">5.
National Register nominations<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">6.
Historic American Building Surveys (HABS)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">7.
Historic American Engineering Record surveys (HAER)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">8.
Historic American Landscape Surveys (HALS)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We also provide paleontological,<span style="color: #1f497d;"> </span>ethnographic and geoarchaeological services
through subconsultants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Acquisition by CCRG has also
brought with it many advantages to our clients. Sagebrush has
acquired new capabilities including:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">1.
More extensive architectural history expertise</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">2. Geospatial Analysis and Imaging</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">3. Geoarchaeological deep-site testing</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">4.
Paleoethnobotanical analyses<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">5.
Underwater cultural resources surveys<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sagebrush is growing and thriving
here in the Intermountain West and we look forward to continuing our
relationship with existing clients and to working with new clients in local and
Federal government agencies, and in the private industry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Michael R. Polk, M.A., RPA</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Principal Archaeologist/Regional Director <o:p></o:p></span><br />
Sagebrush Consultantshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04460196938630418376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088601629758823290.post-80644877711028812082013-07-03T07:20:00.001-07:002013-07-03T07:20:54.578-07:00Sagebrush Consultants, L.L.C., providing Cultural Resources Services to the Intermountain West for 30 years (June 15, 2013)Welcome to Sagebrush Consultants, L.L.C. (Sagebrush). Sagebrush is celebrating 30 years of cultural resources service to the Intermountain West in 2013. Thirty years ago my wife, Ann, and I began a small archaeological consulting company after Environment Consultants, Inc. (ECI) closed their branch office in Ogden in July 1983. Since that time, our company has grown to a medium sized cultural resources firm employing 12-15 people. Over the last 30 years, Sagebrush has, and continues to undertake both prehistoric and historic archaeological surveys and excavations, historic preservation projects, cultural landscape studies, National Register nominations, HABS, HAER and HAL projects, architectural history surveys and evaluations, and paleontological investigations. <br />
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To date, Sagebrush personnel have completed more than 1800 reports covering the broad topics listed above throughout 10 Western states. Projects have ranged from small well pad, access road, pipeline, highway and Corps of Engineers 404 permit projects, to large intrastate and interstate natural gas pipelines, water pipelines, power lines, fiber optic projects, land exchanges, mining projects and government construction projects. <br />
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Sagebrush personnel are committed to provide the most professional service possible at a competitive price. We work with federal and state agencies to make sure all work is done to the highest standards. Sagebrush is also committed to contributing to the cultural resources community and the public who support our work. This is done through active participation in local, regional and national professional organizations such as the Society for American Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology and the American Cultural Resources Association. Sagebrush personnel have presented dozens of papers at these conferences and published articles and books in a wide variety of publications. We have also shared our work with local and regional interest groups and schools through talks as well as brochures, web site material, and information kiosks on many projects that we have undertaken to help educate and enlighten the interested public about the archaeology, history and paleontology of particular areas. We believe that this is part of our obligation as professionals in the fields of archaeology, history, architectural history and paleontology.<br />
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You will find updated and informative information coming out in our website on an occasional basis. We want to give you perspective on our company as well as interesting information about Utah and surrounding states that we have gathered over our professional lives here in Utah. If you have questions or would like to contact us, please do at <a href="mailto:sageb@sagebrushconsultants.com">sageb@sagebrushconsultants.com</a>. We would love to hear from you. <br />
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Mike <br />
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Michael R. Polk, M.A., RPA<br />Principal Archaeologist/Owner (and co-founder)Sagebrush Consultantshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04460196938630418376noreply@blogger.com0