Determining the Eligibility of Historic Forest Service Recreation Cabins

 on the Tongass National Forest

From 2016 to 2021, CRC, in coordination with Welsh Whiteley Architects LLC, worked on a multi-year contract to evaluate the National Register eligibility of some of the 50 historic recreation cabins on the Tongass National Forest. Forest staff chose 26 cabins for evaluation. Most were A-frame, Pan Abode, or Pan Abode-like cabins, associated with the historic theme of “Forest Service Recreation Cabin Expansion from 1960 to 1971”. However, two were “Hunter” style cabins, two were larger buildings associated with the historic period of “Timber Industry Expansion in southeast Alaska”, and one was a two-story cedar shake house originally built by a private individual in a small fishing community. Of the 26 cabins evaluated, 24 were found to be eligible.

3-D Modeling and Aerial Imagery

Archaeological Investigations in the Surf Bay Archaeological District, Akun, Alaska

CRC’s work within the Surf Bay Archaeological District on Akun Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands was focused on survey, assessment, and mitigation.CRC conducted survey and testing of the Surf Bay Archaeological District on Akun Island in 2008.They returned in 2010 for data recovery excavations in the Surf Bay Landing site (UNI-104), a pre-contact period Unagan village site that was to be adversely affected by the construction of a hovercraft landing pad associated with the Akutan Airport.