SITE PROTECTION PLANS: A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
 
I have been assigned the task of writing up a site protection plan for the
Buffalo Ranger District of the Ozark-St. Francis National Forests.  Before
reinventing the wheel, I am searching for references or actual copies of site
protection plans that cover large areas.  I will gladly send copies of the
final plan to anyone who requests it.
 
There is a wide variety of sites that will need protection.  The district
comprises almost 244,000 acres interspersed with numerous parcels of occupied
and unoccupied private land and is bisected by numerous state and county paved
and unpaved roads.  The area straddles the divides between the Arkansas River
to the south and the Buffalo River on the north.  Since most of the National
Forest has been created from formerly private land, house and farmstead sites
are abundant with a sprinkling of lookout towers, mills, schools, mines,
logging camps, graves & cemeteries, and quarries.  There are sandstone and
limestone bluffs all over the district with hundreds of recorded bluff shelters
and many hundreds more yet to be recorded.  There are also numerous lithic
scatters along the flat ridge tops and the benches above primary and secondary
streams.
 
Smoke (Michael A.) Pfeiffer
USDA Forest Service
Ozark-St. Francis National Forest
605 West Main Street
Russellville, Arkansas  72801-3614
(501) 968-2354  Ext.233           DG  M.Pfeiffer:R08F10A
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Fax: (501)964-7518