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President Desiree Martinez will be participating in a cultural resources management panel on March 19th from 2-4pm PST. The virtual event will feature brief presentations, a discussion on the state of consulting, and a chance to speak with representatives from seven CRM firms. Registration instructions via the link below! https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/arf.html

Tomorrow 2/26 at 5pm PST Cogstone President Desiree Martinez will be joining CSUF's discussion Civil Engagements with Regard to Race Relations and will be discussing indigenous archaeology and unsilencing the Native American voice in archaeology. Zoom ID: 997 9571 8288

The NPS State, Tribal, Local, Plans & Grants Division is excited to announce $70.7 million in State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and Tribal Historic Pres...ervation Office (THPO) annual apportioned grants from the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF)! These grants will distribute $55.7 million in historic preservation grants to SHPOs in the U.S. States, Territories, and Freely Associated States. $15 million in historic preservation grants will go to 200 THPOs. These funds provide much-needed support to our state, tribal, and local partners to preserve their unique cultural heritage for future generations, said NPS Deputy Director Shawn Benge. "Education programs, historic structure rehabilitation and cultural art installations are just some of the diverse and creative ways these grants help further our commitment to telling all American's stories." Administered by the NPS, these funds are appropriated annually by Congress from the Historic Preservation Fund. Since 1977, the HPF has provided more than $2 billion in historic preservation grants to states, tribes, local governments, and non-profit organizations. The HPF is supported by oil lease revenues, not tax dollars, with intent to mitigate the loss of a non-renewable resource to benefit the preservation of other irreplaceable resources. Applications are due April 30th, 2021 SHPOs and THPOs can apply for these grants on grants.gov with opportunity numbers: P21AS00231 and P21AS00000 respectively. 1st photo depicts the John & Landon Carter Mansion 1775-80, courtesy of the Tennessee Historical Commission 2nd photo shows the Structure Protection Crew on the 2020 Inchelium Complex Fire, courtesy of The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation To find out more about these exciting grants, check out our website at: https://www.nps.gov/stlpg/ #STLPG #NPS #HPF #Grants #HPFGrants #SHPO #THPO #HistoricPreservation #ParkPartnerships

Desiree Martinez joined Jon Reid & Keith Scott for a discussion on all things diversity, equity, and inclusion and the Native American perspective. Have a listen below!

We had some elves decorate the Cogstone Orange office yesterday. We caught one in the act!

Cogstone is proudly sponsoring Moonlight Over the Mound - a virtual culinary gala featuring food from the desert! The event is hosted by the Pueblo Grande Museum and features "professional chefs from the great states of Arizona and New Mexico [who will be] online, preparing specialties from their kitchens using the all-natural, local ingredients packaged in the Gala baskets." Tickets are available here: https://www.moonlightoverthemound2020.com/

Why did our Paleontological Field Director Ashley Leger go to the doctor? She discovered a "dino sore" Ha Ha Haaaa Happy Birthday Ashley, Cogstone wishes you many more laughs to come!

Our field staff working on a large project in San Luis Obispo have been taking full advantage of their free time by enjoying all the beauty California has to offer. Here is one of their snapshots from Morro Bay at sunset, with otters included.

Cogstone will be closed Thursday 11/26 and Friday 11/27, in observance of Thanksgiving. Stay safe, stay healthy all!

November 18th is National GIS Day - Cogstone is a participant in Esri's event to celebrate science and data using GIS to tell the stories of ancient life and human cultures both to promote an appreciation of the past and provide relevance to the future. Our GIS team recommends checking out The ArcGIS LIVING ATLAS Indicators of the Planet. It’s a world-wide collaboration of collecting nearly real-time geographically based scientific data from across the planet, for 18+ types of natural and man-made challenges, affecting all life on earth. See the link below. https://experience.arcgis.com//003f05cc447b46dc8818640c38b

"We are not old, we're simply vintage" Happiest of Birthdays to our HR/Accounting asst. Sara Martinez, May you have a "Fabulous" Day from everyone here at Cogstone!!!

Cogstone's very own Principal Investigator/ Project Manager Martin McAllister celebrates his birthday today, Join us in wishing him an amazing day!!!

Happy Geography Awareness Week 2020! An interesting and beautiful look at our earth at night. https://youtu.be/_cCjUVPj08I

Cogstone Resource will be closed today in observance of Veterans Day. We will resume normal business hours tomorrow.

A new friend was made while surveying in Oregon this week Does anyone know what species this is?

Cogstone is celebrating the 1st Anniversary of its Arizona office!

Happy Birthday Shannon Lopez, Cogstone wishes you an amazing day!

We’d like to wish Holly Duke a Happy Anniversary and thank you for 8yrs of continued service with us here at Cogstone!

Today we'd like to wish Madeline Biebel the Happiest of Birthdays! Hope you have an "Awesome" Day Madeline!

In celebration of National Fossil Day: sometime between 15.5 and 9 million years ago, a lone peccary died at the edge of a lake northwest of downtown Los Angeles, in what is now the Angeles National Forest. A few million years later, with oceans once again covering this portion of California, a sea turtle died, a bit to the southwest. From the late 1800s through to today, geoscientists in the Los Angeles area have explored these sediments extensively. In 2008 and 2009, tha...t focus paid off; Cogstone paleontologists working in the Forest had a couple of lucky days. Lindsay Porras discovered that ancient peccary (Platygonus sp.; the first recorded peccary from the late Miocene Mint Canyon Formation) while Kim Scott found that ancient turtle (Cheloniidae; first record of sea turtle from the late Miocene to Pliocene Castaic Formation). Neither of the fossils looked like much a section of peccary limb bone, a scrap of turtle scute but both discoveries, now in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, have added to our knowledge to the fossil record of our shared public lands. See more

Cogstone's sending a birthday shout out to PI Wendy Teeter!! Hope you have an amazing day Wendy!

Join Cogstone's President Desiree Martinez, Dr. Wendy Teeter and Karimah Richardson for an illuminating lecture. Mystical Romanticism Legends have long told of fantastic beasts and unexplained phenomena. On Catalina Island, located off the coast of Los Angeles, stories of Nephilim, giants, hollowed earth portals, ancient aliens, and white Indians have obscured the actual 10,000+ year history of the Tongva people on Pimungna (as they call Catalina). The Pimu Catalina Island Ar...chaeology Project was founded in 2007 to counteract the deep lack of understanding about Tongva history, the Indigenous people of the Los Angeles basin, and the four Southern Channel Islands. Panelists will share some of their favorite experiences on and historical documents about Catalina Island, and will unpack the implications of its legends. This program is co-presented by Catalina Island Museum. https://lnkd.in/gekAmkd

Immediate Hire: Cogstone is looking for experienced archaeology field technicians for a project involving the Slater Fire at the California/Oregon border and potentially the Archie Creek Fire in Oregon. More info is available by clicking the link below. https://recruiting.myapps.paychex.com/appo/MainInfoReq.asp

Join us here at Cogstone Resource Management in congratulating our amazing supervisor Sandy Duarte on being with us for one year today. Happy Anniversary Sandy, and we thank you for your continued awesomeness!!!