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Mark Stewart, 1997
Mark Stewart has demonstrated a remarkable ability to locate prehistoric archaeological sites in the woods. His interest in finding them began in 1980 when he started working for Larry Hyder, a consulting forester in Camino, who had been raised in southern Idaho and had looked for Indian sites since he was young. Larry first showed Mark how to look for archaeological sites and helped train his eye to spot clues for likely locations. Mark's site survey skills were further developed during several Board-Sponsored Archaeological Training Courses he has attended, where he stood out as a star student with a genuine interest in archaeology and lots of experience in finding sites. In 1989, Mark started working as a forester for Bohemia lumber company.At that time, archaeological sites were only discovered on 7% of their company land THPs. In the three years that Mark worked there, the average rose to 40% of Bohemia THPs. Although Mark attributes the remarkable increase of discovered sites to implementation of the CAL FIRE Archaeological Training Program for Foresters, it also reflects Mark's ability to influence how company THPs are prepared -- that is -- with more intensive archaeological survey coverage given during the preparation of timber harvesting plans. When Mark began his Forestry Consulting business in 1992, one of his first projects was to record the 15-20 previously discovered but unrecorded archaeological sites on Wetsell-Oviatt Lumber Company land. Since that time, he has discovered and recorded over 100 archaeological sites on THPs throughout California. On the last 50 THPs he has prepared, Mark has found and recorded at least one archaeological site on over 60% of them. A truly remarkable record.
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