GeomorphIS Team to Prepare NRHP MPDFs for BLM Wells Field Office, Nevada

The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has tasked GeomorphIS and team partners U.S. West Research, Inc. (USWR) and G2 Archaeology have been tasked to prepare a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) Multiple Property Documentation Forms (MPDFs) for sites in the Ruby Valley of eastern Nevada for the BLM Wells Field Office. The Ruby Valley has long been a landscape of importance to the Western Shoshone. Today, many descendants of the original Newe (“the People”) inhabitants of the valley are enrolled members of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone, although all Tribes of the Western Shoshone Nation as well as members of the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation and the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation ascribe cultural and historic importance to the area. In an effort to recognize the importance of the Ruby Valley and its various locations to the Newe, both present and past, the BLM seeks to develop a NRHP MPDF to support the designation of Traditional Cultural Properties to the NRHP.  Of specific concern and importance for the scope of the present MPDF will be the hot and cold springs, lakes, and marshes identified as important to the Newe.