A Cultural Resource Survey of the Carmouche Ifv Range, Fort Benning

Southeastern Wildlife Services, Inc. has conducted a background and literature review and field survey at Fort Benning, Georgia. The project area includes approximately 481 ha in Muscogee and Chattahoochee Counties, Georgia. A firing range for the army's new Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) is proposed for the project area. The project was carried out under contract No. DACA 21-82-M-0190 with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District. Terrain within the project area includes the floodplain of Upatoi Creek and its adjacent terraces and level uplands. Elevations range between 85 m and 162 m above mean sea level. Vegetation on the uplands is predominantly pines and mixed pines and hardwoods. In the bottom lands, mixed pines and hardwoods with a dense understory predominate. The intensive field survey was designed to assess a model for predicting the location of sites. The model, designed by Remote Sensing Analysts (RSA), was based on data collected during a survey of the Halloca Creek drainage. High, intermediate and low probability areas were projected over the entire military reservation. During the present study the project area was sampled by surveying 100 percent (27.5 ha) of high probability areas, 50 percent (60.3 ha) of intermediate probability areas and 10 percent (33.3 ha) of low probability areas. In addition, known cultural resources in the project area were revisited. In total, approximately 200 ha were intensively surveyed.