out4blood Report post Posted September 30, 2011 AZGFD has officially gotten into the Archaeology business, they have just hired their own staff archaeologist who has been tasked to build their archeology department from the ground up. My question is, what does archaeology have to do with wildlife management? Apparently AZGFD is going to be pouring resources into starting their own archaeology department. Sounds like a huge waste of money to me considering the state already has plenty of archaeologists and archaeological research requires thousands of man hours and hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. Wouldn't this money be better spent on habitat and water improvement projects or law enforcement? I'm going to be sending an email to them to voice my disapproval. I encourage everyone to do the same. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gearsnagger Report post Posted September 30, 2011 AZGFD has officially gotten into the Archaeology business, they have just hired their own staff archaeologist who has been tasked to build their archeology department from the ground up. My question is, what does archaeology have to do with wildlife management? Apparently AZGFD is going to be pouring resources into starting their own archaeology department. Sounds like a huge waste of money to me considering the state already has plenty of archaeologists and archaeological research requires thousands of man hours and hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. Wouldn't this money be better spent on habitat and water improvement projects or law enforcement? I'm going to be sending an email to them to voice my disapproval. I encourage everyone to do the same. After funding the UC Davis team to study Lions - I suppose the staff will be composed of Californians who are much more advanced and know how to do unbiased research. WTF - Maybe it's a bigfoot/missing link , illegal aliens from space study! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rthrbhntng Report post Posted October 1, 2011 Every wildlife habitat project and especially water tank rebuilds and new construction has to be arch. cleared before the project can proceed. One of the two largest delays and expenses of these type of projects is arch. clearances. Maybe you should see if that is why they hired someone if that is what they did. Every year there are many projects that don't even make it off the drawing board even though there is money available. up until now the FS used their Arch. people but they are way behind. There is millions of dollars that could be used from grants for habitat work for wildlife that isn't used because of one reason or another. If the arch. clearances and NEPA is not done then the projects can't proceed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NRS Report post Posted October 1, 2011 Every wildlife habitat project and especially water tank rebuilds and new construction has to be arch. cleared before the project can proceed. One of the two largest delays and expenses of these type of projects is arch. clearances. Maybe you should see if that is why they hired someone if that is what they did. Every year there are many projects that don't even make it off the drawing board even though there is money available. up until now the FS used their Arch. people but they are way behind. There is millions of dollars that could be used from grants for habitat work for wildlife that isn't used because of one reason or another. If the arch. clearances and NEPA is not done then the projects can't proceed. rthrbhntng is correct, the hired the archy to do their own clearances. They not only save on time to get the clearances done, but staff are cheaper than contracting it out like they have been doing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
