ACS, subconsultant to the Moore/Swick Partnership, is currently (Week of May 4, 2009) in the field on an exciting research project to conduct baseline documentation of existing resources and conditions at Tony Ranch in Haunted Canyon, which hosts a unique middle elevation riparian setting for Arizona. Haunted Canyon is known widely by hikers and birders for its beauty and diversity of plant and animal life. The sponsor of this project is the Superstition Area Land Trust (SALT) who recently acquired the property and will be managing and monitoring its resources into the future. The Tony Ranch property consists of a historic homestead with the remains of the original cabin and other historic features. Together these cultural features form a Rural Historic Landscape that will be assessed during the fieldwork for its National Register eligibility. Additionally, the fieldwork involves a Class III cultural resource survey, a cultural landscape inventory, biological inventories (flora and fauna), riparian health assessment, soil and water testing, and the production of the final reports of the research results, including a Cultural Landscape Report (CLR), which will be a collaborative effort between Moore/Swick and ACS, and an ecological assessment and restoration report. Victoria Vargas is the ACS Team Lead and Cultural Resources Principal Investigator for this project, Tracy McCarthey, ACS Manager of Environmental Services, heads up the ecological asssessment team, Kevin Moore of Moore/Swick is serving as the lead for the overall project consultant team and the landscape architecture team, and Lynn Miller, Member of SALT ‘s Board of Directors and noted landscape architect, is the project coordinator and lead for SALT. A team of 12 project members from ACS, Moore/Swick, and SALT is currently (week of May 4, 2009) in the field to conduct the fieldwork. Given the remoteness of the property, the research team will be hiking in and camping for four days with helicopter-dropped provisions. You can learn more about the Tony Ranch property and SALT by visiting their website at: http://www.azsalt.org
ACS, subconsultant to the Moore/Swick Partnership, is currently (Week of May 4, 2009) in the field on an exciting research project to conduct baseline documentation of existing resources and conditions at Tony Ranch in Haunted Canyon, which hosts a unique middle elevation riparian setting for Arizona. Haunted Canyon is known widely by hikers and birders for its beauty and diversity of plant and animal life. The sponsor of this project is the Superstition Area Land Trust (SALT) who recently acquired the property and will be managing and monitoring its resources into the future. The Tony Ranch property consists of a historic homestead with the remains of the original cabin and other historic features. Together these cultural features form a Rural Historic Landscape that will be assessed during the fieldwork for its National Register eligibility. Additionally, the fieldwork involves a Class III cultural resource survey, a cultural landscape inventory, biological inventories (flora and fauna), riparian health assessment, soil and water testing, and the production of the final reports of the research results, including a Cultural Landscape Report (CLR), which will be a collaborative effort between Moore/Swick and ACS, and an ecological assessment and restoration report. Victoria Vargas is the ACS Team Lead and Cultural Resources Principal Investigator for this project, Tracy McCarthey, ACS Manager of Environmental Services, heads up the ecological asssessment team, Kevin Moore of Moore/Swick is serving as the lead for the overall project consultant team and the landscape architecture team, and Lynn Miller, Member of SALT ‘s Board of Directors and noted landscape architect, is the project coordinator and lead for SALT. A team of 12 project members from ACS, Moore/Swick, and SALT is currently (week of May 4, 2009) in the field to conduct the fieldwork. Given the remoteness of the property, the research team will be hiking in and camping for four days with helicopter-dropped provisions. You can learn more about the Tony Ranch property and SALT by visiting their website at: http://www.azsalt.org
