A cultural resources survey was conducted by the author on 60 acres of National Forest land proposed for use by the U.S. Army as a landfill for the Army's Ranger training center at Camp Merrill, in northern Lumpkin County Georgia. The survey was done under a cooperative agreement between the Army and the Forest Service. The survey involved intensive shovel testing of the ridges and level areas on rugged terrain in the southern edge of the Blue Ridge mountains* within the proposed immediate use and future expansion areas and examination of a buffer zone around the landfill. Evidence of use in farming* hunting, logging and several old roads and trails, as well as training (possibly orienteering) locators were present but no potentially significant sites, either prehistoric or historic, were found. Thus cultural resources clearance for the proposed construction is recommended.
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