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May 2013 Monthly news update from the Office of History and Archaeology
State of Alaska,
Department of Natural Resources IN THIS ISSUE 
Office of History and Archaeology recruiting for architectural historian
Federal funding of state historic preservation programs
Annual atlatl fun and throw scheduled for May 4
Alaska Historical Commission meets May 23-24 at Seward
National Historic Preservation Month activities in Anchorage
Two recent Alaska listings in the National Register of Historic Places
Judy Bittner and Shina duVall part of team recognized by Governor
Heritage Preservation promotes emergency response planning with MayDay program
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation updates
National Park Service seeks award nominations
Society for Commercial Archeology seeks nominations for its annual endangered list
New system to apply for jobs with the State of Alaska
Public project alerts
Heritage subscription information
Preservation calendarOffice of History and Archaeology recruiting for architectural historian The Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation, Office of History and Archaeology, is recruiting for a Historian II with architectural history expertise. This position is located in Anchorage, Alaska and is responsible for providing professional historic preservation subject matter expertise on architectural history for the State of Alaska and the state historic preservation programs administered by the Office of History and Archaeology. The applicant must meet the Secretary of Interior’s federal professional qualifications for an architectural historian (36CFR61, Appendix A). The Historian II recruitment is open to all residents of the State of Alaska, and closes on May 29, 2013 at 5:00pm. For more information, please visit the State of Alaska’s Workplace Alaska website. Federal funding of state historic preservation programs The Obama Administration proposed its FY 14 budget in April. It includes $46.925 million for state historic preservation offices and $8.985 for tribal historic preservation offices; level funding for the programs. There is an additional $3 million requested for a competitive grant project to states and tribes for survey and nomination to the National Register of Historic Places properties associated with underrepresented populations such as Latinos and Asian-Americans. For Heritage Areas, funded from the National Recreation and Preservation Account, the administration’s budget proposes $9 million. Pre-sequester funding for Heritage Areas was $17 million. The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation is proposed to be funded at $6.531 million, a 7% increase that partially restores a 10% reduction made last year. The House of Representatives Historic Preservation Caucus co-chaired by Mike Turner (Republican-Ohio) and Rush Holt (Democrat-New Jersey) sent a FY 14 Historic Preservation Fund “Dear Colleague” appropriations letter. The letter requests FY 14 funding for state and tribal historic preservation offices at the levels prior to sequestration, $46.9 and $8.9 respectively. A similar letter in the Senate, with the addition of endorsing appropriating $3 million for grants for survey and documentation of historic resources important to underrepresented populations, is being sponsored by Kirsten Gillibrand (Democrat-New York) and Ben Cardin (Democrat-Maryland). The Senate’s letter will be sent to, among others, Alaska’s Senator Lisa Murkowski as she is the ranking member of the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Committee. As always, it is important for constituents to let Alaska’s congressional delegation know how historic preservation has a positive economic impact and creates jobs along with saving America’s heritage. Annual atlatl fun and throw scheduled for May 4 The Alaska Office of History and Archaeology and the Alaska Native Heritage Center are holding the 15th annual atlatl fun and throw from 12-5 p.m., Saturday, May 4, 2013. Activities include using atlatl darts to hunt a rhino or wooly mammoth and hunting a seal from a kayak. For additional information contact Richard VanderHoek at 907.269.8728 / richard.vanderhoek@alaska.gov. Alaska Historical Commission meets May 23-24 at Seward The Alaska Historical Commission is meeting Thursday-Friday, May 23-24, 2013, at the new public library and museum in Seward. The agenda includes discussion of historic preservation and research in the Seward area. Members will talk more about the upcoming anniversary of the end of the Cold War and be updated on efforts to update and add to Alaska history educational materials. Commission members will also review five applications from Certified Local Governments for historic preservation projects and five proposals to name or correct names for geographic features in the state. For more information and an agenda contact Jo Antonson at 907.269.8714 / jo.antonson@alaska.gov. National Historic Preservation Month activities in Anchorage See! Save! Celebrate! is the theme for National Historic Preservation Month 2013. Anchorage has several activities planned to call attention to the value of historic preservation for communities and to the role of history in peoples’ lives. The Alaska Association for Historic Preservation is hosting a “Run for Oscar – Historic Oscar Anderson House” from 1-4 p.m. on Saturday, May 4. After the two-mile run or walk there will be refreshments. Details are available at aahp-online.net. On Sunday, May 5, there is a History Day Celebration from 1-3 p.m. at the Pioneer Schoolhouse, to honor Anchorage students who had winning essays in the statewide History Day competition. For more information about History Day contact Darrell Lewis, 907.644.3470. And on Saturday, May 18, from 2-4 p.m., there will be an open house and book signing of Government Hill Yesterday and Today: An oral history of life on Government Hill as told through the people that lived it, at 349 W. Harvard Avenue. To attend the open house, please RSVP to 907.343.7993. Two recent Alaska listings in the National Register of Historic Places The Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places added the Campbell House to the nation’s list of properties worthy of preservation on April 3, 2013, and the Cape Alitak Petroglyphs District on April 9, 2013. The Campbell House, built in 1935, is one of few Matanuska Colony wood-frame farmhouses retaining historic and physical integrity. Of the over two hundred farmhouses constructed, approximately 75 were of frame construction; the others of log or partial-log construction. The 1½ story farmhouse stands 2½ miles south of downtown Palmer. It joins other farmhouses, farms, the administrative center, and a related business listed as part of the multiple-property National Register listing for the New Deal Matanuska Colony resettlement project. Shortly after they arrived in May 1935 colonists drew lots for farms, and George and Onabelle Campbell from Michigan drew lot number 54. They moved into the house in late fall, but left the project that first year. William and Lulubelle Bouwens and eight of their eleven children moved to the farm in 1938 after a fire destroyed their house on lot 53. They kept cows, chickens, pigs, geese, sheep and turkeys and had a big vegetable garden. They sold produce and eggs, and later Bouwens was a U.S. Deputy Marshal. The family recently sold the house, and the new owners, Darrin and Sheri Hamming, used the federal historic preservation tax incentives to rehabilitate the house and open it as a bed-and-breakfast. The Cape Alitak Petroglyphs District is the most comprehensive collection of prehistoric rock art documented to date in Alaska. The incised rocks, some determined to be 1,500 years old, have considerable research value to provide information important to understanding the ancient people of the Gulf of Alaska. The art illustrates animals important to early people; documents components of daily life including personal adornment, material culture, hunting practices, and ceremonial life; and might reveal information on ancient ideology. The rock art was produced with a finely executed pecked technique. Archaeological data indicates the area was a locus of prehistoric settlement from about 1000 BC to AD 1700. The petroglyphs have been studied and photographed for more than a century, but only systematically surveyed and inventoried in the last five years providing the data to document the district for listing in the National Register. Judy Bittner and Shina duVall part of team recognized by Governor Governor Sean Parnell selected the interagency team that successfully worked on the permit for oil and gas development at Point Thomson to receive the 2013 Governor’s Denali Peak Performance Award for exceptional performance. Judy Bittner, State Historic Preservation Officer, and Shina duVall, Review and Compliance Program Manager / Archaeologist were among the team members. The team included 23 people from the departments of Natural Resources, Environmental Conservation, Fish and Game, and Law. Congratulations for recognition of a job well done! Heritage Preservation promotes emergency response planning with MayDay program Heritage Preservation encourages preservation organizations and historic building owners along with libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies to participate in MayDay. The program promotes annual review and testing of emergency disaster response plans and procedures. This year, any cultural institution submitting a brief description of its 2013 MayDay plans or accomplishments by May 31, 2013, will be entered in a drawing for disaster supplies donated by Gaylord Brothers. For project ideas and more information about the program, visit http://www.heritagepreservation.org/PROGRAMS/TFlessons/MayDay.html. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation updates The Advisory Council and the Council on Environmental Quality completed NEPA and NHPA, A Handbook for Integrating NEPA and Section 106. The handbook is to assist federal planners and Section 106 and NEPA practitioners improve the integration of NEPA analysis and documentation and Section 106 compliance. It is also to help stakeholders and members of the public better understand the opportunities for input and participation in federal decision making. The agencies will be offering training on the guidance. The handbook can be accessed at: http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/publications/nepa-handbooks.html. With the Federal Highway Administration, the Advisory Council has posted guidance on implementing the Program Comment for Common Post-1945 Concrete and Steel Bridges. The FHWA web page, http://www.environment.fhwa.dot.gov/histpres/bridges.asp, has a series of questions and answers to help when implementing the Program Comment. It includes illustrations of the common types of bridges addressed by the Program Comment. National Park Service seeks award nominations The Heritage Documentation Programs (Historic American Buildings Survey, Historic American Engineering Record, Historic American Landscapes Survey) are seeking nominations for the Charles E. Peterson and Leicester B. Holland prizes. The Peterson Prize annually recognizes the best sets of architectural measured drawings by college students for the HABS Collection at the Library of Congress. The entry deadline is July 1, 2013. The Holland Prize recognizes the best single sheet drawing of a site appropriate for including in the HABS, HAER or HALS Collections at the Library of Congress by students or professionals. The entry deadline is May 31, and forms deadline is July 1, 2013. More information about the prizes and the application procedures is at www.nps.gov/history/hdp/. Society for Commercial Archeology seeks nominations for its annual endangered list The Society for Commercial Archeology is soliciting nominations for its annual most endangered properties list: “Falling by the Wayside: The Ten Most Endangered Roadside Places. The nomination deadline is May 15, 2013. To nominate a place, the form can be found at http://sca-roadside.org/falling-by-the-wayside. New system to apply for jobs with the State of Alaska The State of Alaska has new hiring system software. Individuals interested in State of Alaska jobs can start creating new registrations and applications. If you have an applicant profile from the old system, you have until June 30, 2013 to copy it to the new system. The new system continues the former name, Workplace Alaska and website address, http://workplace.alaska.gov. PUBLIC PROJECT ALERTS: Department of Natural Resources, Bristol Bay Area Plan Amendment and Determination of Reclassification, http://dnr.alaska.gov/mlw/planning/areaplans/bristol/amend Public comment deadline May 6 Contact: Bruce Phelps, 907.269.8534 / fax 907.269.8915 / dnr.bbapamend@alaska.gov Alaska Railroad Corporation / Northern Rail Extension Project, Tanana River Crossing, www.northernrailextension.com Open house, Salcha Elementary School May 15, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Alaska Railroad Corporation / Port MacKenzie Rail Extension Project Updated project information: www.portmacrail.com Federal Energy Regulatory Commission / Alaska Energy Authority, Susitna-Watana Hydroelectric Project Project information: www.susitna-watanahydro.org/ Heritage Subscription Information Heritage is produced by the Office of History and Archaeology, Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation, Alaska Department of Natural Resources.; Please send your comments, suggestions, and information via e-mail to jo.antonson@alaska.gov, mail to 550 West 7th Ave., Suite 1310, Anchorage, Alaska 99501-3565, or telephone 907.276.8721. All issues are posted to our web site at www.dnr.state.ak.us/parks/ and distributed to subscribers by e-mail. A paper copy can be sent to individuals and organizations that specifically request it. To be added to the subscription list, please send an e-mail to oha@alaska.net with “Heritage, subscribe” in the subject line. If you do not wish to continue to receive Heritage, please send an e-mail to oha@alaska.net with “Heritage, unsubscribe” in the subject line. Preservation Calendar MAY JULY SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER 2014 |
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