US Federal Agencies

Bureau of Land Management

OCA has a long history of successful contracts with the Bureau of Land Management. These undertakings are often associated with land exchange projects. The following excerpt presents some of the large OCA surveys, exchavations and archival  research conducted for the BLM land exchange projects:

-Bolack Land Exchange completed with the following publications:

Patrick Hogan (1992): Archeology of the San Juan Breaks, The Navajo Occupation, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-247u

Patrick Hogan and Lynne Sebastian (1991): Archeology of the San Juan Break, The Anasazi Occupation, OA/UNM Report No. 185-247x

Patrick Hogan (1986): Overview, Research Design, and Data Recovery Program for Cultural Resources within the Bolack Exchange Lands, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-247a

-Boyd Land Exchange completed with the following reports:

Peggy A. Gerow and Patrick Hogan (1998): The Boyd land Exchange Project, I: Archeological Investigations at 13 Sites in West-Central New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No.185-492

Peggy A. Gerow and Janette Elyea (1997): The Boyd land Exchange Project, II: Archeological Investigations at 17 Sites in West-Central New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No.185-520

Peggy A. Gerow (1994): The Boyd land Exchange Survey: A Cultural Resources Inventory of Public Lands in West-Central New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No.185-471

-Cox Ranch Exchange completed with this report:

Patrick Hogan (1993): An Archeological Survey for the Cox Ranch Exchange Lands, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-364e and h

BLM-Dona Ana County Land Exchange completed with this report:

Timothy J. Seaman, Peggy A. Gerow, and Glenna Dean (1988): Archeological Investigations at Sites 030-3895 and 030-3900, Dona Ana County Fairgrounds, New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-340C (report cover shown below)

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Other project conducted for the BLM often involve the construction of water management features to reduce soil erosion and maintain control of the flow of surface water. Such OCA projects resulted into these published volumes:

Janette Elyea, Peggy A. Gerow, Catherine Heyne, Adrienne Actis, and Alexander Kurota (2005): THe Armijo-Socorro Watershed Project; Archeological Survey, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-859

Ronald R. Kneebone (1987): A Reconnaissance Survey of Federally Owned Land in Torrance County, New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-340 (report cover shown below)

Timothy J. Seaman and Richard C. Chapman (1993): Guadalupe Mountain, New Mexico: An Inquiry into the Archeology of Place, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-385 (report cover shown below)

Dan Scurlock (1982): A Cultural Resource Investigation of Two Sites in Lemitar, New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-120 (report cover shown below)

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OCA also performed an ethnographic study of lands around the El Malpais, New Mexico, and produced this report:

Barbara E. Holmes (1989): American Indian Land Use of El Malpais, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-387 (report cover shown below)