Will this be a nation wide list?
Here in California your indicator plants and mine are pretty different.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Laffitte" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 7:02 AM
Subject: Vegetation and Historic Sites


Thanks to everyone for the overwhelming response and discussion.

The whole purpose of posing this question to the group revolves around what 
seems to be a lack of literature on the subject. We all seem to have 
experiences and knowledge with vegetation signatures and historic sites, but 
these connections seem to only be mentioned "in passing" in the literature 
for the southeastern U.S.

I work as an archaeologist at Fort Polk in west-central Louisiana. We have 
noticed over the years that many historic sites (as indicated from historic 
aerials and other documentation) were missed during previous surveys. I am 
currently writing an article discussing the reasons behind these sites being 
"overlooked", which will have a section specifically on vegetation that will 
largely be written by the installation botanist. He is very knowledgable on 
the subject, but I'm trying to help him find any previous work done for the 
area or comparable resources. We would like to, as was mentioned in one of 
the previous emails, develop a list of trees/shrubs/plants that almost 
certainly indicate a homestead (due to them having to be planted and/or not 
spreading heavily) as well as a list of those that are suspicious enough to 
justify surveyors briefly veering from their transects to further 
investigate. This will help ensure that future surveyors
 can be briefed beforehand with respect to types of vegetation to "be on the 
lookout for".

Many thanks,
Brad Laffitte





--------------------------------------------------------------------------------



No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 9.0.894 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3533 - Release Date: 03/26/11 
23:50:00