Photo (Dis)Credit: "My Rock Cairn" by GuthrieColin
"CULTURAL LANDSCAPES IN CONFLICT: ADDRESSING THE INTERESTS AND
LANDSCAPE PERCPETIONS OF NATIVE AMERICANS, THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, AND THE
AMERICAN PUBLIC IN NATIONAL PARKS" By Emily Anne Eide
“Field Methods:
The fieldwork for this project took place
over a period of three weeks, July 11 to August 1, 2010, during which eight
previously recorded prayer and fasting sites were surveyed and subject to
condition assessments…Upon arriving at each site, the record site form of each
individual site was compared directly to the current state of the site. When
possible, the contexts of the record photos were used to further determine that
the correct area for the site had been located. In some cases, it was possible
to identify rocks in the record photos that were still present at the site.
Once the team was confident that the correct area for the site was found and
UTM coordinate information documented, any relevant structures were measured
and photographed. When photographing a site, the team attempted to use the same
camera placement as used in the record photos as noted earlier. Sketches of the
site features and any other associated artifacts or graffiti were also drawn…
Causes of impact include both human and natural factors ranging from
bioturbation to deliberate site destruction. The most common categories of
impact to the surveyed sites included natural weathering processes, recent
graffiti, and the rearranging of site features into cairns or windbreaks…
The most common forms of human impact were graffiti, the rearrangement
of rock structures, noise pollution, and the placement of summit registers…(pages 30-33)”
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