Useful Resources for Managing Cultural Resources in Wilderness

CONSULTATION RESOURCES

HUD Tribal Directory Assessment Tool
National NAGPRA Program American Indian consultation lists

INFORMATIONAL RESOURCES

Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center
The Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center Online Courses has three training modules - Managing Cultural Resources in Wilderness- that provides much information about the consideration of cultural resources that applies to all Federal agencies with wilderness responsibilities.

In addition, the training center has recorded webinars that directly pertain to cultural resource issues. The NPS has designated cultural resources recognition as a fifth element of wilderness character; this fifth element is addressed in the webinar series "The Fifth Quality of Wilderness Character." Session 2, in particular, focuses on cultural resources. Also, the "Wilderness in the Courts" webinar series Session 2: "Cultural Resources" examines recent court cases about cultural resources in wilderness areas.

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

NPS Heritage Documentation Program

National NAGPRA program website

National Trust for Historic Preservation
In 2015, the National Trust for Historic Preservation ran a series of blog postings that contain much useful information about the NHPA Section 106 process.

• Section 106 Works
• Worst Practices for Section 106 Consultation
• NHPA Section 106 and Tribes: A Look Back and Paths Forward
• Nike Site Summit: Making Section 106 Consultation Work

NPS Ethnography Program website

NPS Park NAGPRA program website

Planning, Environment, and Public Comment (PEPC) website

Wilderness Connect
Wilderness.net is a clearinghouse of a wide variety of information about wilderness, ranging from legislation establishing individual wilderness areas to interactive maps to guidance on wilderness management. Cultural resource managers may be especially interested in the cultural resources toolbox and National Park Service wilderness resources.

GUIDANCE RESOURCES

A Citizen's Guide to Section 106 Review

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

ARPA and the Antiquities Act

ACHP Policy Statement on Balancing Cultural and Natural Values on Federal Lands

Keeping it Wild 2: An Updated Interagency Strategy to Monitor Trends In

Wilderness Across the National Wilderness Preservation System (2015)

Keeping it Wild in the National Park Service: A User Guide to Integrating Wilderness Character into Park Planning, Management, and

Monitoring Minimum Requirements Analysis

NEPA and NHPA, A Handbook for Integrating NEPA and Section 106 (2013)

NPS Management Policies

Scientific Activities and Research in NPS Wilderness: Guidelines for Wilderness Managers

Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Archeology and Historic Preservation

Wilderness Stewardship Plan Handbook (January 2014)

Reference Manual 41 (RM41)

LAWS, REGULATIONS AND DIRECTOR'S ORDERS

Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA)

Antiquities Act of 1906 and Regulations ( (54 USC 320301-320303: Monuments, Ruins, Sites, and Objects of Antiquity and 18 USC 1866(b): Historic, Archeologic, or Prehistoric, Items and Antiquities); Pub. L. 59-209, 1906)

Archeological and Historic Preservation Act of 1974 (54 USC 312501-312508: Preservation of Historical and Archeological Data); Pub. L. 93-291, 1969)
The Act consists of amendments to the Reservoir Salvage Act (Pub. L. 86-532, 1960) by Pub. L. 93-291, 1974; and by Pub. L. 95-625, 1978.

Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 ( (as amended)

Curation of Federally-Owned and Administered Archeological Collections

DO #24: NPS Museum Collections Management

DO #28: Cultural Resources Management

DO #28A: Archeology

Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702)

National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 USC 4321 [Purpose] and 42 USC 4331-4335 [Policies and Goals])

National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (as amended)

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 and Regulations (at 43 CFR 10 )

NPS 28: Cultural Resource Management Guideline

Wilderness Act