04-30-2017, 12:41 PM
Hi Eric, I will wait until the specifics this latest testing becomes available for that determination and will keep you updated on what I find pro or con. The EIS put out by TMT themselves has a really good map of locations of hundreds of archaelogically relevant spots on the summit. You are specifically talking about the Northwest summit on which TMT wants to build, however, they still carved a half mile road from the summit to the NW Plateau before all the paper work was filed. Nees and McCoy found evidence of ancient activity within 100 feet of that road which incidently covers 2-3/4 acres itself. With no way to know what was there before the road was ground down.
The entire 525 Acre Astronomy Park falls within a Historic Preservation Zone (enacted in 1966 I think) due to the fact that there is a proven long history of spiritual rituals that took and still take place up there, contrary to your assetions.
The entire 525 Acre Astronomy Park falls within a Historic Preservation Zone (enacted in 1966 I think) due to the fact that there is a proven long history of spiritual rituals that took and still take place up there, contrary to your assetions.