hey guys welcome to Field Notes. A few
weekends ago the United States
celebrated 100 years of national parks.
One out of the many gifts the National
Parks has given us is CRM or cultural
resource management.  Today I wanted to talk
to you guys about what the heck crm is.
Which is possibly just to say that crm
answers the age-old question of what do
I do with my anthropology degree
Cultruarl resource management is a pretty broad
term that really at the root of it is
just the way that people try to preserve
and protect cultural and historic stuff
like I said crm got its start in
national parks and in the 1970s the
National Park Service actually coined
the phrase cultural resource at this
time there was quite a bit of growing
concern about protecting our nation's
history and this results in quite a bit
of legislation being passed. Before the
1970's there was movement
on trying to protect and preserve
historic artifacts and sites and this
was the Antiquities Act of 1906. This was
the law that kind of started it all, so
it's important in that sense.  It
unfortunately didn't really stop people
from looting sites for profit however.
After a couple of really bad trials the
judges ruled that the act was too vague
and therefore was unenforceable.
From there more laws were put in place
to restrict and strengthen the
protection of these sites before we
start to get a little too deep into laws
and regulations I  have a book,
this details every law and regulation
involved in CRM its kind of large and
we don't really have time to go over it.  If
you would like a more detailed
discussion about the laws and
regulations head on over to my blog
where there will be a blog post talking
specifically about the laws.
One of the more common tasks someone
working in crm will do is put together a
proposal for something to be put on the
National Register of Historic Places
this is essentially just a long list of
buildings sites artifacts that are
protected by these federal laws.  Now
anybody can prepare a National Register
nomination they do have pretty strict
rules about how its presented, so a lot of
the time you're better off just hiring a
historian or an archaeology consultant
or CRM firm to do it for you.
So the first step to getting on the
national register of historic places is
to complete this form and
this form tells the committee where the
site is and why it's important. Once you
fill out this form is sent to the State
Historic Preservation Office (or SHPO)
from there they may give you some
guidance on how to improve your form, and
then they will send it to the state's
historic review commission who will then
recommend whether or not it should be
sent off to the National Park Service
and then finally the national park
service is the one who will approve or
deny your nomination. If it is approved
the site is put on the national register
while a lot on this list tends to be
archaeologically based more modern
things are also considered one of the
more popular modern protected sites are
examples of famous styles of
architecture. In the area where I'm from
we had a very famous architect by the
name of Frank Lloyd Wright there are
quite a few houses the fall under CRM's
domain because they were built by him
and exemplify his style.  Now not
everything that has meaning to people
can be put on the National Register
there are certain things that are exempt
and we will go over those now. First off
it has to be at least 50 years old
the things that are not typically
considered for the national registry
include birthplaces and great sights of
famous people structures that have been
moved from their original location or
reconstructed historic buildings.
Unfortunately a lot of CRM is paperwork
but basically anybody who wants to build
something or tear up a property has to
go through a permit process and part of
that permitting process is talking with
CRM Team and this is to avoid disturbing
either a known site or an expected
historic site. A lot of figuring that out
is simply scanning through old maps and
documents making sure that it's not
recorded somewhere because almost
everybody has to deal with CRM at some
point a lot of the time CRM people will
be on staff with cities or cities will have a
specific company that they do contract
work with my alma mater SIU actually
housed the CRM team for the majority of
southern Illinois
however they are more rare in university
settings. If you are interested in
history or anthropology but aren't
really sure what you're going to do with
that degree
CRM might be a good option to look into. 
That is going to be it for today
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a few weekends a
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give you some guidance as to how to
improve your nomination form and then
sent to the State Historic Review Commission
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twister states historic preservation office,
state historic review commission
