Cultural Resources Survey for FY-91 Timber Harvesting Compartments Fort Benning, Georgia

A four person survey crew of Southeastern Archeological Services, Inc. (SAS) surveyed an initial 3,387 acres, scattered in pockets across 21 forest compartments, during August and September, 1991. Sites 9CE349 and 9CE352 were also tested for eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The management summary for this survey, completed in October, 1991, has been sent to intended recipients. A second phase of the FY-91 timber harvesting cultural resources survey, familiarly known as ‘Amendment No. 1,' involved survey crews of two to six people, depending upon crew availability. Instead of surveying selected areas with pine beetle infestations, as in the initial survey contract of the FY-91 survey, entire compartments were surveyed. Amendment No. 1 cultural resource survey acreage totaled 2,345, which was divided among compartments P1 and P2 in Georgia and compartment Y2 in Alabama. Because of shifting priorities, Fort Benning directed that 100 ac in Compartment P1 be omitted from the Amendment 1 survey. The final stage of the FY-91 cultural resources survey, Amendment No.2 was conducted by four and six person crews during December, 1991 and January, 1992. A total of 1,774 acres was surveyed, 1,024 acres in compartment F4 and approximately 750 acres in selected areas of compartment N1. A total of 60 prehistoric and historic sites were recorded in compartments F4 and N1. An additional 32 occurrences (isolated artifacts) were also recorded. Seventeen cultural resources are recommended eligible or potentially eligible to the NRHP.