Larry Lahren
Box 1218
53 Mission Meadow Road
Livingston, Montana
59047
(406) 222-3168 • 406-223-3168 Cell
CAREER
OVERVIEW
• 1971-Present
– Founder and Director - Anthro Research Inc., Livingston, Montana.
First
private, antiquity permitted cultural resource consulting firm in the
northwestern Plains and northern Rocky Mountains.
• 1981-1995 –
Cayuse Outfitters - Guide and Outfitter, State of Montana.
Region 5
Representative - Montana Outfitter and Guide Association.
• 1998-Present
– Right-of-Way Representative and member of the American Association of
Professional Landmen.
• 1970-Present
– Principal Investigator - Anzick Clovis burial, Park County, Montana.
• On-going -
Various public education activities including talks, workshops, publications,
and field trips.
EDUCATION
1976 Ph.D.,
North American Archaeology. University
of Calgary, Department of Archaeology, Alberta, Canada.
Dissertation
Based on Original Excavation Research:
"The Myers–Hindman Site: An
Exploratory Study of Human Occupation Patterns in the Upper Yellowstone Valley
from 7000 B.C. to A.D. 1200."
Written
Preliminary Examinations: Cultural
Anthropology, Archaeology and Physical Anthropology.
Oral
Examination: Cultural Anthropology,
Archaeology and Physical Anthropology.
Foreign Language Examination:
Spanish
1969 Masters
of Science in Applied Science, Anthropology, Sociology, and Earth
Sciences. Montana State University,
Bozeman, Montana.
1967 B.S.,
General Studies/Sociology. Montana
State University, Bozeman, Montana.
EXAMPLE PROJECTS AND WORK EXPERIENCE
2002 The
Dozer Rock Site (24SW230): A 4,000 year old hunter-gatherer campsite in the
Absaroka Mountains of Sweet Grass County, Montana, Gallatin National Forest.
2001 Interpretations,
layout, and design for the Sam Morris Archaeological Collection (from Clovis to
Crow), Crazy Mountain Museum, Big Timber, Montana.
2001 Mill
Iron to Wounded Knee - paper given at the Gallatin Valley Historical Society
meetings, Bozeman, Montana, and at the Central Mississippi Valley
Archaeological Society Meetings in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
2001 Class
III Cultural Resource Investigations, Idaho Consolidated Mining Company,
Stillwater Complex, Gallatin and Custer National Forests, Stillwater and Sweet
Grass Counties, Montana.
2001 Class
III Cultural Resource Investigations: Stillwater Mining Company – East Boulder
Extension Area, portions of the Boe Ranch and State of Montana Trust Lands,
Sweet Grass County, Montana.
2001 Right-of-Way
Representative - Yellowstone Pipeline, Gallatin County, Montana.
2001 Cultural
Resource Compliance Investigations - Hertzler Slurry Line Corridor Area,
Stillwater County, Montana.
2000 Right-of-Way
Representative - Pioneer Pipeline, Evanston, Wyoming and Croydon, Utah.
1999 Preliminary
Evaluations of the Rocky Pass Archaeological Site (24ST306), Stillwater County,
Montana.
1998 The
Keogh Bison Kill Site (24ST401), Stillwater County, Montana.
1998 Right-of-Way
Representative - Yellowstone Pipeline Company, Missoula, Montana.
1997- Cultural
Resource Investigations, Stillwater Mining Company, Slurry Line Route and
Tailings Pond area, Stillwater
County, Montana.
1997-1967
Cultural Resource Investigations of the Norm Starr Property, Sweet Grass
County, DSL and Land Exchange.
Cultural
Resource Evaluations of the Haynes AML area, Adams County, North Dakota.
Survey
and Assessment of Archaeological Collections from the Custer National Forest;
Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Directed
field recon, historical overview and report writing for EBASCO EIS Survey of
Ft. Peck Reservoir, Montana.
Additional
Cultural Resource Evaluations in the East Boulder and Placer Basin Areas of
Sweet Grass County, Montana.
Designed
and implemented an archaeological and anthropological program for the McLeod,
Montana School. (K-8).
Class
III Cultural Resource Survey and National Register Nominations for the Buffalo
Rapids Area of the Yellowstone River – Mid–Rivers Telephone Co.
Directed
and produced the historical text Mr.
Rodeo - The Big Bronc Years of Leo Cremer.
Project
Director - Surface Cultural Resource Evaluations of the Petrolia Dam Project,
Petroleum County, Montana, HKM Associates, Billings, Montana.
Historic
restoration of the Old Livingston City Hall–Firehall Complex, offices and
health club, Livingston, Montana.
Expert
Witness Testimony – Northern Lights, Inc., Kootenai Falls Project.
Principal
Investigator – Research Design for Cultural Resource Mitigation Activities – Kootenai Falls Cultural Resource
District, Lincoln, County, Montana.
Archaeological,
Ethnological and Historical Project Director for the proposed Kootenai Falls
Hydro-electric Project, Lincoln County,
Montana, for Northern Lights, Inc.
Class
III Cultural Resource Evaluations in Portions of the East Boulder Area of Sweet Grass County, Montana.
Class
III Cultural Resource Investigations of the Wyo–Ben Bentonite Mining Claim Area:
Bighorn County, Wyoming.
Cultural
Resource Investigations of a proposed 230-KV transmission line corridor from Miles City, Montana, to
New Underwood, South Dakota.
Class
III Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Investigations of 72,000 acres in Phillips, Valley and Blaine
Counties, Montana.
Class
III Cultural Resource Investigations of the Raderville to Gas Hills Power Transmission Line Corridor
in Fremont County, Wyoming.
Cultural
Resource Investigations of the Johns–Manville Mineral Claims area, Stillwater Complex, Montana.
Cultural
Resource Investigations of the Kansas–Nebraska Natural Gas Pipeline Route, Phillips County,
Montana.
Class
II Cultural Resource Investigations of the Grass Creek Planning Unit, Worland BLM District,
Wyoming.
Class
I Cultural Resource Investigations of the Worland, Wyoming, BLM District.
Power
Resources Corporation, Buffalo, South Dakota.
Cultural Resource Evaluations on
Selected Portions of the National
Grasslands in North and South Dakota.
Contractor
to the Wyoming State Archaeologists Office to conduct various cultural resource investigations including: Cherokee Mine (PP&L), Jim Bridger Mine (PP&L), Prairie Dog Creek
(PP&L), Shoshone National Forest,
Riverton to Dubois Highway, and Boysen
Reservoir (NPS).
Principal
Investigator USGS Contract No. 14-08-001-15951 for: "The Impacts of Coal Development on the Cultural Resources
in Southeastern Montana."
Fort
Peck, Montana - Cultural Identity for Indian Youth Program, Ft. Peck Tribes.
Principal
Investigator USFS Contract No. 11-1070 for:
"Archaeological Investigation of Selected Areas on the
Gallatin National Forest."
Cultural
Resource Evaluations on the West Fork of the Stillwater Area of Montana for Johns–Manville Sales
Corporation.
BLM
Contract No. 25040-PH5-20 for Archaeological Testing of the Sykes Spring Site.
National
Park Service Contract No. PX-6860-3-1619 for Salvage Excavations at a Prehistoric Campsite in Yellowstone
National Park.
Stole
Bison Kill - Park County, Livingston, Montana.
CETA/Park County Museum Project.
Hutchinson
Bison Kill, near Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Summer Field School. Principal Instructor.
Anzick
Site - Park County, Montana, Clovis Burial near Wilsall, Montana.
Six
Mile Site - Park County, Montana, Multicomponent Campsite, near Livingston,
Montana. Principal Investigator.
Sphinx
Site, Principal Investigator - Park County, Montana.
The
Myers-Hindman Site, Multicomponent Campsite (Paleo-Indian to Historic Times) near Livingston,
Montana. Principal Investigator.
Lindsay
Mammoth Site - Dawson County, Montana.
Field Assistant.
Eagle
Creek Site, Park County, Montana - Field Assistant.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Archaeological Component for the Fort Peck Cultural
Identity for Indian Youth Program.
Anzick Site interpretative display, Park County,
Montana.
Numerous lectures – demonstrations to school classes
and civic groups.
Initiated the preservation and National Register
nomination of the Main Boulder Ranger Station.
Layout-Design Archaeological Section - Clovis to Crow
- Crazy Mountain Museum, Big Timber, Montana.
Interpretative
development of the Anzick Site for the Build A Better Wilsall group.