FOUN Cultural Landscape Report

Project ID: P17AC01394

Federal Agency: National Park Service

Partner Institution: University of Oregon

Fiscal Year: 2017

Initial Funding: $74,700

Total Funding: $74,700

Project Type: Research

Project Disciplines: Cultural

National Park: Fort Union National Monument

Principal Investigator: Melnick, Robert

Agreement Technical Representative: McGilvray, Julie

Abstract: The project will create a Cultural Landscape Report for Fort Union National Monument (FOUN) in northern New Mexico. FOUN is a nineteenth century US military fort located along the Santa Fe Trail. The fort was in use from 1821 – 1891 and was established as a National Park Service (NPS) unit in 1956 (fully developed under the NPS Mission 66 program). The fort’s landscape comprises adobe ruins, trail traces, and earthworks located within an open grassland. The CLR will produce documentation, a historical narrative and context, a landscape analysis, and a treatment plan. The work will pull from existing documents (CLIs, Vegetation Management Plans, National Register Nominations, and other research) and new field and archival efforts to create a better understanding of how the fort functioned and how extant features, primarily trail