MOLLY MOLENAAR, M.A.

mmolenaar@asmaffiliates.com

Molly Molenaar, ASM Principal Ethnographer, received her M. A. in Anthropology from Texas Tech University. She has conducted ethnographic research and assisted federal and state agencies for the past ten years with Native American consultation and the identification of traditional cultural places for compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). She is currently providing tribal consultation assistance to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a proposed groundwater development project Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), and an ethnographic assessment for a culturally significant archaeological (rock art) district in southern Utah.

Ms. Molenaar has completed projects for BLM, the U.S. Navy Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), Utah Transit Authority (UTA), and U.S. Army Reserve. She has worked with over 60 tribes in the Great Basin, Southwest, Colorado Plateau, Plains, and California.

KIMBERLEE PULSIPHER, B.S.

kpulsipher@asmaffiliates.com

Kimberlee’s experience includes watershed and trail inventories and impact assessments, as well as utilizing Trimble GPS and ArcGIS software to process data for the U.S. Forest Service and Salt Lake County’s Engineering Division. In addition, Kimberlee had participated in collaborative geology projects in the European Alps and all over the Western United States, collecting and analyzing data and writing academic reports.

At ASM, Kimberlee has developed her ethnographic research and writing skills while working on the Parowan Gap Ethnographic Assessment for the Bureau of Land Management, Cedar City Field Office as well as the Southwest Intertie Project (SWIP) - North Ethnographic Study Interim Report for Great Basin Transmission, LLC. Kimberlee co-authored an extensive ethnohistoric background section for the Parowan Gap Ethnographic Assessment and conducted a complete literature review for the SWIP - North Ethnographic Study.

MEREDITH (Penny) M. RUCKS, M.A.

prucks@asmaffiliates.com

Ms. Rucks, ASM Ethnographer, received her M. A. in Anthropology from University of Nevada in Reno. She has strong background in cultural resource management, having worked for both the BLM as a district archaeologist and the Forest Service, managing the Heritage Resource Program for the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit.

Her research interests include ethnobotany and indigenous management systems. She has conducted workshops for the exchange of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and Western scientific knowledge, and developed methods for botanical surveys to identify harvestable stands of target plants according to criteria established by Native America gatherers.

Ms. Rucks has over 35 technical reports to her credit, based on ethnographic studies she designed and conducted ranging from small projects with rapid turn-around to large multi-year projects for a variety of federal and state agencies, including the Army Corps of Engineers, BLM, USDA Forest Service, FERC, National Park Service, California Department of Parks and Recreation, Nevada Department of Transportation, Nevada Arts Council; as well as for Cortez Gold, Nevada Energy, and the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California.