Wow --

You'se guys are sure livin' in the tall cotton!

In BLM (260 million acres or so at last count) we have about 130 archs -
most of whom are prehistorians ;o( -  and one CRM historian, yours truly.
My position was set up as a pilot position to test the Regional Historian
concept that we stole from the NPS - which has recently been abolishing
most of their Regional Historian positions.  Optimistically, we
plann/planned to have four such positions, but it hasn't happened yet.

I can't image the FS has having seven formally trained professional
historians. ( A lot of agencies are sneaky and duplicitous, labeling
anthropologists as historians, but that's another thread.) Such luxury.
NPS was always fat in terms of CRM positions in comparison, yet it has the
smallest land base compared to BLM and FS.  So it goes...

Cheers!

Carl Barna
Regional Historian
BLM Colorado State Office








Sounds like the Forest Service is overstaffed and needs a little thinning
out like your trees, Smoke. Just kidding, of course, my fellow dedicated
public servant.

Given the number of acres the Forest Service manages (200 million or so),
it's actually a paltry few. By comparison, the National Park Service has
just about 200 permanent staff in the archeology job series nation-wide,
as
I recall, for oversight of some 380 park units spread over nine regions
and
about 80 million acres. Quite a few of those staffers are actually
involved
with providing external technical assistance instead of cultural resource
management and research within our own park boundaries.

















Will Reed just did a query yesterday and the USDA Forest Service Heritage
program employs

333 professional archeologists (193 series) and
47 archeological technicians (102 series).
7 Historians (170 series)
7 Social Science Student/Trainees (199 series) and
2 "general Anthropologists" (190 series)

This is only permanent and not seasonal employees.

Smoke.


Smoke (Michael A.) Pfeiffer, RPA
Ozark-St. Francis National Forests
605 West Main Street
Russellville, Arkansas 72801
(479) 968-2354  Ext. 233
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