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Coachella Canal Lining
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 Toller Site Project
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 Ancient Lake Cahuilla
Schematic Simulation of the
Infilling and Recession of
Ancient Lake Cahuilla

ASM AFFILIATES
 

Cultural Resource Management

ASM Affiliates, Inc. is certified Small Business Enterprise specializing in archaeological and historical studies for compliance with local, state, and federal environmental requirements. Since incorporation in 1977, the firm has successfully completed more than 3,000 cultural resource investigations for both private sector and public agency projects throughout California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada. Our clients include local, state, and federal agencies, public utilities, construction and engineering firms, planners and developers. Through teamwork and close working relations with clients, ASM devises feasible, cost-effective solutions that balance project requirements with compliance needs.

ASM is recognized as a leader in the field of Cultural Resources Management for both the quality of our compliance-oriented research and our innovative, management-driven solutions to complex environmental resource issues. The ASM senior staff members, Drs. Jerry Schaefer, Sinéad Ní Ghabhláin, Susan Hector, Mark Giambastiani, Mark Becker and Mr. Barry Stiefel, have 150 years of combined professional experience in cultural resource management. John Cook, the company’s founder and President, has 25 years of management experience, and all senior staff are Registered Professional Archaeologists fully knowledgeable of both CEQA and NHPA compliance procedures.

ASM has been awarded numerous multi-year, on-call contracts with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1986 to 2001), Caltrans District 11 (1988 to 2008), Naval Facilities Engineering Command (1998 to 2008), Imperial Irrigation District (1997 to current), the Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Land Management, City of San Diego Metropolitan Wastewater Department (1991 to 2002) and Centre City Development Corporation (1997 to current), and other federal, state, and local agencies. We also serve as staff for several Native American tribal organizations in Southern California.

ASM offers a full range of professional CRM services including constraints-feasibility analyses, overviews, predictive modeling, field surveys, archaeological sampling and testing, significance and National Register eligibility evaluations, Architectural History, Native American consultation and ethnography, archival studies, construction monitoring, data recovery, preservation planning, and custom designed/Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for municipal, state, and federal agencies, as well as private and tribal environmental and planning departments.