Southeastern Wildlife Services, Inc. has conducted a cultural resource survey of the Carmouche Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) range, Fort Benning, Georgia. The project area included part of the Upatoi Creek floodplain and adjacent terraces in Muscogee and Chattahoochee Counties, Georgia. A background and literature review and intensive field survey were completed. A 121 ha field survey sample was drawn from the 481 ha project area. The sample was based on a model for predicting site locations constructed by Remote Sensing Analysts (1979). Additionally, all known cultural resources were revisited. In total, approximately 200 ha were intensively surveyed.' Twenty-eight cultural resources were inventoried, four of which were judged to be potentially eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. These four sites are expected to be impacted by construction, use and maintenance of the proposed facility, and further archeological testing is recommended to assess site significance. The survey was also designed to test the applicability of the predictive model. The model was found to have some value in predicting site location, but did not predict the locations of large potentially significant sites.
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