These projects were funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service Broadband Initiative Program and were located on lands under the jurisdiction of multiple State and Federal agencies. Cultural resources surveys were conducted for a Kit Carson Electric Cooperative project crossing Carson National Forest land, a fiber-to-the-home project involving New Mexico Department of Transportation rights of way, and a project involving the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) Taos Field Office and Picuris Pueblo. All three documented new or previously recorded archaeological sites, acequias, and historic buildings; the BLM project also documented five segments of abandoned railroad grade of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Chili Line. Tierra’s resulting cultural resources reports were accepted by all reviewing agencies involved in each project.
