Cultural Resources Analysis and Management

This field works to ensure that valuable historical legacies are protected for future generations.  Inventories and evaluations of culturally significant sites, consultation with Native American representatives and developing monitoring and management plans for those sites are key tasks. 

There are several government compliance programs which play an important role in this field.  The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) are three of the most important. 

In order to meet the requirements of these programs plans must be developed to deal with the mitigation, monitoring and management of important cultural resources. In formulating these plans one must make use of historic archaeological and cultural resources, such as the National Register of Historical Places, as well as land use studies and environmental impact reports.

Professions in this field we routinely recruit include:

• Historians and Architectural Historians
• Prehistoric and Historic Archaeologists
• Anthropologists
• Preservation Planners
• Traditional Cultural Property Experts
• Environmental Attorneys
• Geomorphologists
• Landscape Architects