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Volume 5 represents the results of sample inventories accomplished on 268,960 acres of public lands in Grand and Uintah Counties. The stratified, sampling strategies, prepared by the Bureau of Land Management, were applied to energy-rich, culturally unadaptable regions for purposes of establishing zones of high and low site density. Required by law, energy developers were continually funding site-specific inventories, prior to ground disturbance, in areas where previous surveys produced few, if any, cultural sites. Fieldwork, in 1978 and 1979 by Centuries Research, Inc., and Nickens and Associates produced results which substantiated previous findings.