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When appropriate, HSR's oral historians interview informants about historic sites found during survey projects. An example is a project administered by the WSMR National Range Directorate of Environment and Safety and funded the Legacy Resource Management Program of the Department of Defense. The project was begun in the fall of 1993 when Human Systems Research and its partner New Mexico State University launched a three year oral-history project focusing on ranchers who once lived on lands now occupied by White Sands Missile Range. From roughly 1880 through 1942, goat, sheep, and cattle ranches occupied the terrain now closed to public access. The main thrust of the project was to conduct taped interviews with as many of the former ranchers as could be located, to copy and preserve pertinent historic photographs and documents, and to transcribe the interviews. All of the materials collected were duplicated for archiving at the New Mexico State University Rio Grande Historical Collections (an archive), and at White Sands Missile Range. Interviews were conducted with 25 individuals representing 18 different families.

The delivered products of this project include 121 tapes resulting in 3,206 pages of transcript, the collection of 483 historic photographs, the production of two traveling photo exhibits based on the historic photographs, the production of 1,000 "do-it-yourself" oral-history interview kits, the presentation of a seminar to train members of the ranching families and the general public in conducting their own families' oral histories using the oral-history interview kits, the development of a lesson plan for school teachers relating to ranching and education on White Sands Missile Range, the preparation of all materials for archiving and a catalog of the collection, and the publication of two popular volumes (referenced above) along with three technical reports.

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• Class III Intensive Surveys
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• Data Recovery
• Office and Field Support
• Special Synthetic Projects
• Cultural Resource Documentation, Repair or Preservation
• Oral History

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