Larry Lahren
Box 1218

53 Mission Meadow Road

Livingston, Montana  59047

(406) 222-3168 • 406-223-3168 Cell

lahrenanthromt@mcn.net

www.larrylahren.com

 

           

 

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.

 

 

 

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST