Cultural Resources Practitioners is a certified Small Business dedicated to the management of California’s diverse cultural resources. We employ experts in the profession who provide quality cultural resources management (CRM) services to a variety of clients including private developers, landowners, other CRM firms, and local, state and federal agencies.
CHRIS Record searches & GIS Services
Our GIS Services include:
- Project location, boundaries, and other project delineations;
- Record search study area (e.g., extent, buffer, or radius)
- Cultural resource mapped locations and boundaries
- Data management (e.g., shapefiles, detailed metadata and spreadsheets)
- Site and artifact distribution models
- Georeferencing (e.g., historic maps overlaying project areas).
CHRIS Record searches
GIS Mapping & Data Management
Blue Rock Open Space Project - Monterey County
CRP conducted a cultural resource records search at the NWIC and managed GIS and GPS data for a project managed by the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District within 226.5-acres of the Blue Rock Open Space East property. The project included GIS map preparation related to the records search results for known cultural resources and reports and the conversion of project survey coverage and cultural resource locations and boundaries obtained in the field with a GPS unit to a geodatabase for comparison with previous cultural resource and survey data.
CRP prepared record searches provide:
- Faster turnaround times than ‘in-house’ data requests performed by IC staff
- Reduced record search costs
- Data specific to your project needs
REcent Record Search & GIS Projects
Potrero Offshore Sediment Feasibility Project - City of San Francisco
The project involved a records search and the development of a series of complex cultural resource and report GIS maps for the Off-shore Sediment Area in the City of San Francisco. The inherent complexities of the San Francisco area required the development of creative and clear GIS data presentation.
CRP provides records searches conducted at Information Centers (ICs) of the California Historical Resources Information System (CHRIS). Many of these projects have involved GIS data management and cultural resource and project map production.
Our proficient and cost-efficient service is made possible by our Principal Researcher who has years working with, and for, the Northwest IC. This has given us a way to develop strategies for accessing information with great efficiency at minimal cost.
CRP prepared Geographical Information Systems (GIS) digital maps can be customized to your project needs. CRP understands that cultural resource GIS maps are unique in that they differ greatly than other environmental maps; and can even be troubling to produce for a professional GIS team who is not familiar with the unique needs of a CRM map.
Our staff has the professional CRM and GIS experience who use the latest ESRI ArcGIS software to produce high-quality maps tailored to your project.
Cultural Resources Practitioners, LLC
Water Treatment Project - City of Watsonville, Santa Cruz County
CRP conducted a cultural resources record search and GIS map preparation for the proposed Water Treatment Project. The proposed project involved the construction of at least seven wells for the treatment of a cancer-causing chemical found within tap water. CRP duties included conducting the cultural resources records search at the NWIC for over 1,000-acres within Watsonville, and the generation of complex cultural resource GIS maps for use in a cultural resource sensitivity assessment, and preparation and timely delivery of the associated cultural resource documentation.
Guadalupe River Trail Project - City of San Jose
CRP conducted a cultural resources records search at the NWIC and managed GIS data related to the 4.9-mile study corridor along the Guadalupe River. CRP produced detailed cultural resource maps, cultural resource study survey coverage maps, overview maps, and presented GIS data in a clear and organized format. The project involved the production of thirty-four detailed cultural maps and overviews using a variety of GIS data and basemaps.