Bob:

Claudia and I would really like to see your work at Santa Barbara and what 
methods you are using for protection\reconstruction of adobe walls.  We did 
a pXRF Workshop for Jack Williams last November in San Diego at the Mission 
and it went very well.  Could you use this technology at the Presidio in 
Santa Barbara?   We just finished pXRF studies of the Pershing Square site 
of the 1815-1822 Presidio at San Francisco for Dave Morgan and NCPTT and 
will be getting that data out over the next month. Would you be interested 
in such a workshop at Santa Barbara in February or March?

We are used to working on Presidios in Arizona and hope to go back this 
winter or next and do a CSF archeogeophysical and archaeochemical workshop 
on the 1840's Mexican Hacienda y Presidio de Babocomari and the Spanish 
presidio of Terrenate.  We would welcome the participation of you or any of 
your students.  Both sites have standing walls are relatively intatact and 
are known to Jack Williams.

Sincerely,

Richard J. Lundin BA, MA, RPA, ISAP
Consulting Historical Archaeologist & Remote Sensing Specialist 
(Archaeogeophysics)
Director, Wondjina Research Insitute
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Subject: Re: Presidio de San Diego


> The computer simulatiuon sounds like a great idea, though I have not yet 
> seen
> the one for SD.   Meanwhile, reconstruction is physically impossible at
> Monterey or San Francisco, and politicaly impractical at SD, so SB will 
> have to
> remain the only partially reconstructed presidio in California.   We have
> successfully incorporated surviving historic structures into the 
> reconstruction and
> do thorough archaeology before any above ground building.   This is an
> alternative to the current NPS philosophy of stablizing ruins. At the same 
> time, it
> costs the taxpayer nothing.
> R.L. Hoover
>
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