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                    <text>Recent Efforts in Underwater Cultural Heritage Management
on the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf

Dave Ball
Pacific Outer Continental Shelf Region, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Camarillo, California 93010, USA
Email: david.ball@boem.gov
Abstract
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is responsible for managing
the nation’s energy and mineral resources on the federal Outer Continental Shelf
(OCS). These resources include conventional energy (oil and gas), renewable
energy (wind and hydrokinetic) and sand and gravel extraction for beach
restoration. As with any federal action or undertaking, an assessment of potential
impacts to the environment, including cultural resources, is required to make an
informed decision. The BOEM Pacific OCS Region is taking a proactive
approach to cultural resources management on the OCS by funding research
efforts that provide baseline information on known and potential underwater
cultural resources, and by identifying best practices for incorporating information
from indigenous communities in the planning process.
Key words: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Cultural Landscape, Offshore
Renewable Energy, Outer continental Shelf, Submerged Landform, Tribe
Introduction
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is responsible for managing over
1.76 billion acres of seafloor off the coast of the United States (U.S.) and is charged
with regulatory oversight of offshore conventional energy (oil and gas), renewable
energy (wind, wave and ocean currents) and marine minerals (primarily sand and gravel
resources for coastal restoration). The Bureau’s jurisdiction begins 3 nautical miles
offshore and extends approximately 200 nautical miles, to the extent of the Exclusive
Economic Zone1. BOEM’s authority over conventional energy and marine minerals was
established through the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) of 1953, which
gave the Secretary of the Interior authority over mineral exploration and development on
the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Through the Energy Policy Act (EPAct) of 2005
BOEM (then operating as the Minerals Management Service) also has authority over
offshore renewable energy. The EPAct significantly expanded the bureau’s offshore
energy responsibilities and renewed interest in energy development on the Atlantic and
Pacific OCS. For any federal action or undertaking within the Bureau’s authority, BOEM
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�must comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the National Historic
Preservation Act (NHPA) and other legislative and regulatory environmental
requirements. Included in those requirements is the obligation to consult with federally
recognized tribal governments, as mandated through Executive Order 13175 and
Secretarial Order 3317. Additionally, the NHPA requires consultation with federally
recognized tribes and Native Hawaiian Organizations for cultural resources that are
considered eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. As BOEM’s
offshore renewable energy program has developed, and applications for construction of
offshore facilities are increasing, it is important that the Bureau properly engage with the
nation’s coastal indigenous communities.

To ensure that the Bureau is consulting

properly, BOEM is funding several projects that seek to be more proactive in developing
the best practices for identifying appropriate information gathering protocols and survey
measures in order to avoid or mitigate adverse effects during development on the OCS.
Each of these projects is rooted in the cultural landscape concept, which seeks to
develop a more holistic understanding of areas that could be affected by a proposed
action

or

undertaking

by

integrating

environmental

science

with

historical,

archaeological and traditional knowledge.
Cultural Landscape Approach
The concept of cultural landscapes is not new.

According to the United Nations

Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), “[I]n 1992, the World
Heritage Convention became the first international legal instrument to recognize and
protect cultural landscapes” (Mitchell et al., 2009: 19). UNESCO defines a cultural
landscape as embracing…
“…a diversity of manifestations of the interaction between humankind and
its natural environment.
Cultural landscapes often reflect specific
techniques of sustainable land-use, considering the characteristics and
limits of the natural environment they are established in, and a specific
spiritual relation to nature…Cultural landscapes are illustrative of the
evolution of human society and settlement over time” (Mitchell et al., 2009:
19-20).
In recent years the cultural landscape approach has also gained traction and
acceptance within the federal historic preservation program in the U.S. For example,
the U.S. National Park Service’s Bulletin 36 defines a cultural landscape as, “a
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�geographic area, including both cultural and natural resources and the wildlife or
domestic animals therein, associated with a historic event, activity, or person or
exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic values” (NPS, 1994). More recently, the U.S.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Marine Protected Areas
Federal Advisory Committee issued a white paper in 2011, which recommended
incorporating a cultural landscape approach to “strengthen conservation of resources
that cross the land/sea interface, promote sustainability of those resources and improve
the socio-economic resilience of communities which depend upon them” (MPAFAC,
2011: 4). Additionally, in 2011 the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP)
released the Native American Traditional Cultural Landscapes Action Plan, which is
designed to:


Promote the recognition and protection of Native American traditional
cultural landscapes both within the federal government and the historic
preservation community



Address the challenges of the consideration of Native American
traditional cultural landscapes in the Section 106 review process as
well as in NEPA reviews (ACHP, 2012).

This plan was adopted by the ACHP in November 2011 and announced by the White
House on June 28, 2012 (Donaldson, 2012).
BOEM Environmental Studies
Established in 1973 under the former Minerals Management Service, the Environmental
Studies Program (ESP) is an applied science program that was created to develop,
conduct and oversee scientific research specifically to inform policy decisions regarding
offshore energy and marine minerals activities on the OCS.

Research conducted

through the BOEM ESP covers physical oceanography, atmospheric sciences, biology,
protected species, social sciences and economics, submerged cultural resources and
environmental fates and effects. The primary goal of the ESP is to provide information
needed for the assessment and management of environmental impacts on the human,
marine and coastal environments of the OCS and the potentially affected coastal areas.
As a result, BOEM is a leading contributor to the growing body of scientific knowledge
about the nation’s marine and coastal environment. Through BOEM’s ESP, baseline
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�analysis of underwater cultural heritage resources has been updated off the Atlantic,
Gulf of Mexico and Pacific coasts (Pearson et al., 2003; TRC, 2012; ICF International et
al., 2014, respectively). Each of these studies includes a database of identified and
reported historic shipwrecks and a predictive model of high probability areas that could
be associated with submerged prehistoric landforms, areas that would have been
exposed thousands of years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Additionally,
in support of potential offshore renewable energy development, initial baseline
assessments have been completed along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of historic
properties that could be affected by alteration of the seascape from construction of
offshore facilities (TRC, 2012; ICF International et al., 2014, respectively).
BOEM held the first commercial offshore renewable energy lease sale for an area off of
Rhode Island in July 2013, and a second sale was held off Virginia in September.
Interest for developing offshore renewable energy has also been expressed elsewhere
on the Atlantic OCS, as well as off the coasts of Hawaii and Oregon within the BOEM
Pacific OCS Region. Offshore renewable energy siting could have an affect on
submerged prehistoric sites and coastal sites that are important to indigenous groups.
Expected impacts to the seafloor will occur from the installation of individual wind, wave
or ocean current generators and associated transmission cable corridors. Additionally,
wind turbines, which can stand 300-500 feet above the ocean surface, will have a
definite visual signature. Depending on how far offshore wind turbines are constructed,
many of these facilities will be visible to some extent from the coast, and therefore will
have some level of affect to the offshore view.
Therefore, as BOEM reviews applications for offshore renewable energy projects, it is
critical that the Bureau not only develop protocols that honor the unique relationship
between the federal government, sovereign tribal nations and indigenous communities,
but also incorporates traditional knowledge and oral tradition into the decision-making
process. To meet these challenges, BOEM has awarded several research studies that
seek to develop best-practices protocols for working with federally recognized tribes and
Native Hawaiian communities, as well as incorporating information from these groups
into the analysis of offshore geophysical survey data. Some of these projects are briefly

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�highlighted below and two of these efforts will be detailed further in this session by
Valerie Grussing and Hans Van Tilburg.
Submerged Paleocultural Landscapes Project
Off the Atlantic coast of the U.S., where interest in offshore wind energy has been more
prominent, BOEM has entered into a cooperative agreement with the University of
Rhode Island, in partnership with the Narragansett Indian Tribal Historic Preservation
Office, to develop a science-based, standardized best practices methodology for
incorporating tribal knowledge into a predictive model for identifying submerged
landforms.

Developing

Protocols

for

Reconstructing

Submerged

Paleocultural

Landscapes and Identifying Ancient Native American Archaeological Sites in
Submerged Environments seeks to enhance and refine the Bureau’s understanding of
submerged paleocultural landscape distribution on the Atlantic OCS and to better
understand and identify paleocultural landscapes of importance to regional tribes
through collaborative research. Specifically, the project is designed to incorporate
Narragansett Indian Tribal oral history and traditional knowledge with remote sensing
surveys off the coast of Rhode Island in order to develop a geospatial predictive model
that will identify offshore environments with varying archaeological sensitivity for
containing ancient Native American archaeological resources.
The first phase of the project was completed in the spring of 2013, which consisted of a
2-day workshop between invited tribal representatives and archaeologists from Europe
and the U.S. The workshop reviewed current theories on submerged landform
identification and discussed how to respectfully engage Native American tribes. The
second phase of the project will synthesize the information obtained at the workshop,
along with published sources, to develop a methodology aimed at incorporating tribal
knowledge into best practices protocols for developing a model to identify submerged
landforms. Once a working model is developed, researchers will conduct field
investigations and data acquisition, combined with tribal traditional knowledge in order
to validate the model and create a more complete understanding of the paleocultural
landscape off Rhode Island. The project also includes an outreach component with the
Narragansett Tribe and will develop training materials and a documentary film. This
project was awarded as a cooperative agreement through the North Atlantic Coast
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�Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit in July 2012 and should be completed in
September, 2016.
Characterization of Tribal Cultural Landscapes
At the time of this writing, the BOEM Pacific OCS office has received two applications
for offshore renewable energy projects off the Oregon coast. These proposed projects
include a commercial floating wind lease off of Coos Bay and a marine hydrokinetic
(MHK) research lease off of Newport. Prior to receiving these lease requests, the BOEM
Pacific OCS office entered into an interagency agreement with NOAA’s Marine
Protected Areas Center and the Maritime Heritage Program to develop best practices
protocols for working with west coast tribes to incorporate information on tribal cultural
landscapes into the Bureau’s decision-making process. The goal of this project,
Characterizing Tribal Cultural Landscapes, is to develop a proactive approach to
working with Native American communities in order to identify areas of tribal
significance that need to be considered in the planning process.

A more detailed

discussion of this project is provided elsewhere in this session by Dr. Valerie Grussing
in her paper, Characterizing Tribal Cultural Landscapes for Resource Preservation and
Protection.
Hawaii Maritime Heritage
The BOEM Pacific OCS Region office has not yet received any completed applications
for renewable energy projects offshore Hawaii, however, interest has been expressed
for offshore wind development. In May 2012, the BOEM Pacific OCS Region signed an
inter-agency agreement with NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries to provide
baseline information on underwater cultural heritage resources off the eight main
Hawaiian Islands. The project, Assessing Historic Properties and Cultural Resources in
the Main Hawaiian Islands, will develop a database of underwater and land-based
cultural resources that could be affected by construction of offshore renewable energy
facilities. The project also seeks to develop a best practices methodology for engaging
Native Hawaiian communities, similar to the Tribal Cultural Landscapes project, so that
information important to Native Hawaiians is included in the planning and review
process for any future offshore renewable energy applications. This is the first cultural
resources-related project that BOEM has undertaken for Hawaii and the information
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�collected through this effort will provide critical information for taking into consideration
the effects of offshore renewable energy development on cultural resources near the
eight main Hawaiian Islands. Further information on this effort is discussed elsewhere
in this session by Dr. Hans Van Tilburg in his paper, Assessing Historic Properties and
Cultural Resources in the Main Hawaiian Islands.
Submerged Landforms on the Pacific OCS
With the completion of the updated baseline study on underwater cultural heritage for
the BOEM Pacific OCS Region, BOEM developed this follow-up study to further
investigate submerged landforms off the U.S. west coast and to refine the predictive
model for where these landforms might be expected. Archaeological and Biological
Assessment of Submerged Landforms off the Pacific Coast is a multi-disciplinary effort
that will examine existing data sets from areas off the southern California and central
Oregon coastlines that have been identified as having a high potential to be associated
with previously exposed landforms. The project will develop and field test a geospatial
model that will aid in the identification and classification of potential submerged cultural
landforms from existing remote sensing data and seafloor maps in areas along the
Pacific coast. Similar to the Narragansett project on the Atlantic OCS, this project will
evaluate existing remote sensing data and review current theories on sea level rise
during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) on the Pacific OCS in order to identify high
probability areas for further testing. Biological indicators, such as hard-bottom features,
will also be assessed to see if these features correlate with possible submerged
landforms. The project will also conduct fine-scale survey and ground-truthing of
identified features and analyze new data for possible indicators of prehistoric human
activity. This project should be completed in 2017.
Pacific Region Ocean Uses Atlas
The last project that the BOEM Pacific Region office is currently undertaking, which has
the potential to incorporate cultural use information from indigenous communities, is the
Pacific Region Ocean Use Atlas (PROUA). The PROUA project was developed through
an inter-agency agreement with NOAA’s National Ocean Service and is designed to
document where coastal communities use the ocean across a full range of typical
human activities and sectors. The primary objective of the project is to enhance ocean
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�planning for offshore renewable energy development and inform other ocean planning
strategies that require insight on how and where ocean areas are used for recreational,
commercial and industrial types of activity. One component of this project is to conduct
interactive participatory mapping workshops in order to capture the knowledge of
community experts about the patterns of ocean uses occurring off the coasts of Hawaii,
Oregon and Washington. Though the previously discussed efforts have not yet been
completed to fully develop protocols for engagement with coastal indigenous
communities, efforts have been made to invite these groups into the process
appropriately.
Conclusion
With the passage of the 2005 Energy Policy Act, BOEM’s mandate over offshore energy
and marine minerals expanded to include offshore renewable energy. In an attempt to
improve BOEM’s environmental review process and better fulfill the Bureau’s obligation
to consult with federally recognized tribes and Native Hawaiian Organizations, BOEM is
developing a more proactive approach to engage indigenous communities in the
decision-making process in support of offshore renewable energy. Information on each
of the studies described in this paper, as well as other research funded by the Bureau,
can be found on our website at: www.boem.gov\studies\.
Acknowledgement
Funding for the research projects identified above has been provided through the
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

The author would like to thank the Tribal

Historic Preservation Offices of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, the Makah
Tribe, and the Yurok Tribe for their efforts on the Tribal Cultural Landscapes project, as
well as the Narragansett Indian Tribal Historic Preservation Office for their efforts on the
Submerged Paleocultural Landscapes project.
Endnote
1

OCSLA and the Submerged Lands Act define the OCS as all submerged lands lying seaward of state
coastal waters. For most coastal states federal waters begin 3 nautical miles past the mean low tide line,
the exception to this rule includes offshore Texas and the west coast of Florida, whose state waters
extend 9 nautical miles offshore.

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�References
ACHP (Advisory Council on Historic Preservation), 2012. The ACHP’s Native American
Traditional Cultural Landscapes Action Plan. http://www.achp.gov/traditional-culturallandscape.pdf, accessed 05 December 2013.
Donaldson, M. W., 2012.Native American Traditional Cultural Landscapes Action Plan –
Better

Decisions

for

Historic

Properties.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/06/28/native-american-traditional-culturallandscapes-action-plan-better-decisions-histo-0, accessed 05 December 2013.
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Research, 2013. Inventory and Analysis of Coastal and Submerged Archaeological Site
Occurrence, Pacific OCS. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management, Pacific OCS, Camarillo, CA OCS Study BOEM 2013-0115, pp. 363.
Mitchell, N., Mechtild Rössler, and Pierre-Marie Tricaud., (Eds.), 2009. World Heritage
Cultural Landscapes: A Handbook for Conservation and Management
http://whc.unesco.org/documents/publi_wh_papers_26_en.pdf, accessed 04 December
2013.
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Planning,

Treatment

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MPAFAC (Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee), 2011. White Paper
and Recommendations of Managing Marine Resources across the Land/Sea Interface.
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Pearson, C. E., James, Jr., S. R., Krivor, M. C., El Darragi, S. D., and Cunningham, L.,
2003. Refining and Revising the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Region HighProbability Model for Historic Shipwrecks: Final Report. U. S. Dept. of the Interior,
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�Ocean Energy Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, New Orleans, LA. OCS
Study BOEM 2012-008, pp. 324.
Dave Ball is the Pacific Region Historic Preservation Officer and Diving Safety Officer
for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). Before joining BOEM he worked
for several archaeological firms in the Pacific Northwest. He received a BA in
anthropology from Sonoma State University in 1992 and an MA in anthropology from
Florida State University in 1998. Dave has over 20 years’ experience in archaeology
and has directed field research on both terrestrial and underwater archaeological sites
across the country, including inundated prehistoric sites, World War II shipwrecks, and
deepwater shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico. He is currently serving on the Board of
Directors for the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology.

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                  <text>In 2009, responding to the effort to protect the significant natural and cultural resources within the marine environment for the benefit of present and future generations, the U.S. National Marine Protected Areas Center formed a Cultural Heritage Resources Working Group to provide expert advice on improving the conservation and management of maritime heritage resources. The resulting White Paper provided a series of recommendations to both the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Department of the Interior, including new definitions for cultural heritage, marine cultural resources, tribes, indigenous peoples, and cultural landscapes. Central to these recommendations was a strong endorsement for the Cultural Landscape Approach in the understanding and management of maritime heritage resources (or UCH). Subsequently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationâ€™s (NOAA) Maritime Heritage Program has adopted the recommendations of this paper and is implementing a â€œmaritime cultural landscapeâ€ approach to the management of cultural resources within the National Marine Sanctuary System. Also as a part of this initiative, NOAA and the Bureau of Ocean Energy and Management (BOEM) have teamed up to support maritime cultural landscape studies of heritage resources by Native American Tribes and Native Hawaiian communities in the Pacific region. These projects on the U.S. West Coast and in the Hawaiian Islands demonstrate the necessity of adapting a broader range of recognized cultural resources and a more inclusive and participatory management and preservation process. Charismatic resources like historic shipwrecks will always provide unique information for archaeologists and historians, but we do ourselves a disservice if we focus solely on these types of properties, and neglect other perspectives and the broader nature of all types and traces of human existence that lie underwater.&#13;
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                    <text>Observations on developing a maritime cultural landscape approach to managing
US National Marine Sanctuaries
Bradley W. Barr
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of National Marine
Sanctuaries Scituate, Massachusetts 02066, USA
Email: Brad.Barr@noaa.gov
Abstract
Effectively managing marine protected areas requires considerable knowledge of these
special places people value and to which they are sometimes strongly attached.
Usually, this knowledge is limited to the present state of resources and changes
observed in the recent past, which is used to inform the development of management
actions to address current and emerging threats to biodiversity and underwater cultural
heritage (UCH) resources. However, while acquiring this “snapshot” of the current
status of natural and cultural resources is necessary, it is often not sufficient.
Understanding the longer-term history of that site, illuminating its “maritime cultural
landscape” (MCL), can provide critical context to interpreting that somewhat static
“snapshot”. MCLs represent the historical imprint of human interactions with these
special places, providing a deeper base of social and historical information to inform
and empower stewardship of natural and UCH resources. The National Marine
Sanctuary System (NMSS) sites are already managed as landscapes – through
ongoing implementation of ecosystem-based management (EBM) – and integrating
MCL approaches offers opportunities to expand and enhance our deeper understanding
of how these socio-ecological systems were formed, changed over time, and how
coastal communities adapted to, and influenced, these changes. Better understanding
these historical interactions can offer significant insights, integrated with knowledge
attained through EBM, that can inform and guide contemporary management decision
making. The NMSS has developed a vision and strategy for implementing an integrated
EBM/MCL approach to stewardship, and is in the process of implementing that strategy.
Key words: Maritime Cultural Landscapes, Underwater cultural heritage, Ecosystembased management, Marine protected areas, Stewardship
Introduction: Valued Places
We all have “special places”. Places that have deeper meaning to us, places that evoke
especially memorable activities or events, or places we seek out, either physically or in
our minds, when we need a retreat from the pressures of life. It is our deep connection
to these places that imbues our lives with meaning, defines who we are, and influences
our values and behavior. These places are, in turn, affected by our connection to them,
our reliance on them for physical and spiritual sustenance, our recreation and

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�livelihoods. Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum has written “in the end, we will
only conserve what we love”. Given this, it should not be too surprising that many of
these special places have been preserved by society under law and policy as protected
areas. It should also not be too surprising that the managers of these protected areas
would have a keen interest in this essential human/environment relationship, what
people find special about the place they manage, and how they can effectively preserve
whatever compels and elicits such connections. If we do not have some knowledge of
this relationship, of what people value about that place, how can we possibly offer the
stewardship such a special place deserves?
Protecting these special places in the coastal and ocean waters of the United States is
the mission of the National Marine Sanctuary System (NMSS). The National Marine
Sanctuaries Act (U.S.C. 16, Chapter 32, Sections 1431 et seq.), the principal statutory
authority for establishing and managing marine protected areas in the waters of the US
Exclusive Economic Zone, provides the framework for protection and management of
such special places. This authority extends to preserving both ecosystem biodiversity
and integrity, as well as maritime cultural heritage. The former is addressed in the
NMSS through the implementation of ecosystem-based management (EBM), generally
defined for the marine environment, by Leslie and McLeod (2007), as follows:
“Marine EBM is about interactions: interactions among different spatial and
temporal scales, within and among ecological and social systems, and
among stakeholder groups and communities interested in the present and
future health of coastal and marine areas”.
It is about explicitly integrating humans into management, recognizing and accounting
for the potential affect that humans have on ecosystem structure and function, but also
incorporating their interests and aspirations into how places are managed and what
strategies are used to accomplish management goals established collaboratively with
these communities.

As the authors clearly state, however, it is the communities’

interests in the “present and future” of these places that embodies EBM. It is largely
based on understanding the present state, the drivers that are currently influencing the
ecosystem and management strategies that lead to a future state that sustains, or
improves, the ecosystem over time. Conversely, preserving the cultural heritage of that
place is necessarily focused on the past, how humans have influenced these places

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�through time, and how those communities have, in turn, been shaped by these places.
Understanding the cultural heritage of a place offers the knowledge and experience
acquired by the community over a broader sweep of history. It involves a deeper
understanding of how that community has responded to ecosystem changes in the past,
how their actions have altered the socio-ecological system over time, and perhaps
shedding some light on how resilient that community might be to adapting to future
changes. To effectively integrate this cultural heritage preservation component into the
management of national marine sanctuaries, the concept of maritime cultural
landscapes (MCL) was identified as a complementary mechanism to EBM that offers a
compatible framework for understanding, and ultimately more effectively managing,
these special places in the oceans and along the coasts.
What are “Maritime Cultural Landscapes?”
As described in Barr (2013), the concept of “maritime cultural landscapes” builds on the
older and more widely applied notion of cultural landscape in terrestrial environments.
As first suggested by Westerdahl (1992), maritime cultural landscapes (MCL) were
defined as “human utilization of maritime space by boat, settlement, fishing, hunting,
shipping and its attendant subcultures”. MCL “comprises the whole network of sailing
routes, old as well as new, with ports and harbors along the coast, and its related
constructions and remains of human activity, underwater as well as terrestrial”
(Westerdahl, 1992). Jensen et al., (2011) provided an eloquent definition of “cultural
landscapes”:
“Cultural landscapes capture the living past that surrounds us and give us
a better understanding of the links the natural history and human history of
a place. They illustrate how we have shaped the world, and how the
world’s natural environments have shaped us. Perhaps most importantly,
cultural landscapes can also provide us with valuable insights into the
future, such as the relationship between the heath of natural resources
and human well-being and prosperity. At their most basic, cultural
landscapes are specific places where combinations of human activity and
natural forces have left a discernable mark on the world. Cultural
landscapes are reservoirs of human experience that preserve undeniable
examples of human triumph and loss. Retaining the intangible as well as
the tangible parts of human culture, cultural landscapes can do what the
natural sciences alone cannot. They convey the human meaning of
places”.

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�MCL encompasses not only this cultural history of the physical maritime environment,
but also the “cognitive landscape”, defined as “the mapping and imprinting of the
functional aspects of the surroundings in the human mind. Man in landscape, landscape
in man” (Lofgren, 1981; cf Westerdahl, 1992). It embraces both the changes observed
over time with regard to the physical environment and human use, but also the
perception of these changes by the people who have lived, and are living, in that place
throughout history. How this maritime and ecological landscape has shaped and been
shaped by the human activities that have occurred there throughout its history provides
the foundation for understanding, and ultimately more effectively preserving, these
cultural landscapes.
As Tuan (1974) has observed, geographic spaces become “places” when people imbue
them with meaning, a process that influences self-identity and affects the way in which
we perceive and behave toward these places. Understanding the maritime cultural
landscape of a place identifies not only our collective contributions to sustaining and
improving these places we have given meaning, but of how people have contributed to
what they have become, offering insights and experience acquired by the community
along the way. Such deeper knowledge of place is likely to be a valuable asset to guide
and inform place-based management. This last point is worthy of emphasis. This
deeper knowledge may indeed have considerable potential value that contributes to a
more holistic and effective management approach to preserving the natural and cultural
resources of an MPA, but a more traditional reading of the literature on cultural
landscapes suggests that there should be no direct connection between the process of
cultural landscape analysis and place-based management.

Cultural landscape

approaches are focused on engaging the various stakeholder and cultural communities
in acquiring knowledge about the human/environment relationship through time, and
offering a forum for this engagement.
Integrating EBM and MCL
EBM is about including the “human dimension” in sustaining ecosystem structure and
function through collaborative management, engaging the community in establishing
management goals for that place, and the strategies implemented to achieve those
goals. It is a prospective process, informed with knowledge of the current state of the
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�ecosystem, and leading to some agreed upon desired future state. In most cases, EBM
utilizes various management tools and strategies, such as zoning, regulations, and
voluntary mechanisms to balance sustainable use and preservation. MCL approaches
also involve these same people as a key element in understanding and preserving
heritage resources of this valued place, but it is a retrospective process. It focuses on
the history of the human use of that place, illuminating what has happened, through
time, which has left an imprint of this use on the socio-ecological system. It identifies
how the system has changed over time, how human uses have changed, and how the
system has responded to those changes. MCLs also held to ascertain what attributes
and elements of the human/environment relationship are relevant and contribute to the
deeper meaning and value the communities ascribe to this place, thereby offering some
insight into which of these elements and attributes are most important to preserve and
protect. While EBM and MCL could be implemented independently - which would be an
easier path to follow - an integrated management approach involving both EBM and
MCL would seem to offer opportunities not readily available if executed separately.
Clearly, both EBM and MCL involve “taking a step back”, looking at the “bigger picture”
of why this place is valued, which human uses have (and are leaving) an imprint on the
environment.

The both have people as a central and important element of their

implementation.

MCL offers the opportunity to acquire deeper knowledge of place

through the lens of history (both remote and recent) to learn what the state of the
ecosystem is today, what human activities may have led to the current state, and what
knowledge was acquired as these communities adapted to, accommodated, and
caused environmental change. They appear to be quite complementary, and are likely,
as they both seek the active engagement of the interested and affected pubic, to
potentially offer some efficiency in implementing them together rather than individually
and separately.
With regard to the practice of MPA management, one other rationale to consider in this
integrated implementation of EBM and MCL is the potential to break down some of the
internal barriers between those MPA management staff focusing on natural resource
protection, and their counterparts that apply their energies to preserving cultural
heritage. In this age of specialization, when it is beyond the capabilities of anyone to
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�become what used to be called a “Renaissance Man” (or woman), managers cleave to
their specialties, and organizations of MPA programs are almost always set up with
“natural resource” and “cultural resource” staff in different organizational units. Through
the integrated implementation of EBM and MCL, there is greater opportunity for
collaboration and knowledge sharing between these two usually isolated operational
units within an MPA program. If Young (2010) is correct in his assertion that institutions,
particularly environmental governance systems, are similar to other socio-ecological
systems in that they are made more resilient, adaptive, and more resistant to stress
through effective implementation of adaptive management and social learning, this sort
of interdisciplinary integration may contribute to not only successfully achieving the
mission of the program, but also to sustaining the organization over time, avoiding what
Olson (1982) has termed “institutional arthritis”.
“The Devil is in the Details”
Making such an integrated approach operational for an MPA program like the NMS
System is no small feat. There are institutional and practical challenges to effectively
integrating EBM and MCL. Seeking acceptance of the idea of broadening the way
managers think about their sites to include MCL, let alone integrating EBM and MCL,
represents a challenge to MPA Programs that have been in operations for decades and
where their approach to management has become rigid and somewhat inflexible (“the
way we’ve always done it...”). For an MPA system like the NMSS, which includes
fourteen sites operating largely under a single statutory authority but quite different in
composition and management focus, not all sites will embrace this change simply
because the leadership of the MPA program has decided it should be so. Not all sites
have the necessary staff with expertise relevant to cultural heritage preservation, and
the site budgets may be insufficient to consider the additional costs associated with the
background research and public engagement required to successfully implement an
MCL approach. Therefore, it has been determined that the implementation of this
approach should be on an opportunistic basis, with each site deciding whether they will
incorporate MCL, and the integration of MCL with EBM, into their management planning
when their site plans are being reviewed and updated.

If they choose to do this,

additional support will be provided to them from the national program, bringing needed
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�expertise in history, archaeology, and relevant planning and public engagement support
from NOAA’s Maritime Heritage Program (MHP) and operating units from other sites
and headquarters who can offer such expertise.
For sites that express a willingness to begin the process, an MCL “synopsis document”
is developed that generally identifies the scope and elements of what the MCL for that
site would include, providing an overview of the historical human uses of the area, the
various cultures that were involved in that use, discussions of how those cultures left
their imprint on the ecosystem, both physically and cognitively (through such things as
place names and knowledge of differing perceptions of the cultural landscape among
the cultures who lived in that place). Such a “synopsis document” has been prepared by
the MHP for the proposed expansion of the Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Banks
National Marine Sanctuaries along the Northern California “Redwoods” coast (Delgado,
Unpublished MS). This document is made available to those who are developing the
proposed management planning documents for this possible expansion of these
sanctuaries, with the promise of further support should the sites agree to proceed with
the implementation of this MCL initiative.
Other opportunities may involve more targeted support toward implementation. There
has been some interest expressed by the State of Wisconsin for a possible sanctuary in
the waters of Lake Michigan off their coast. While a considerable amount of research
has been assembled on the shipwrecks of this region, this is the home lands and waters
of a number of maritime indigenous cultures, and little was known about their use and
habitation of this place over time. To begin to identify and collect relevant information
regarding this indigenous cultural landscape, a MHP Graduate Fellow was identified to
conduct this essential research (Tate, Unpublished MS). In this case, the more specific
focus on the Indigenous contribution to the MCL was essential, and the research
provides a starting point for better understanding and incorporating these cultures’
contributions to the MCL of this area that may be considered for sanctuary designation
at some point in the future. Where there are many cultures that value a place all need
to be heard and given the opportunity to contribute to our deeper understanding of that
place.

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�It is expected that the implementation of an Integrated EBM/MCL approach to
management for the NMSS will be something that will take considerable time and effort,
but this will be addressed as opportunities arise. Budgets and staff resources, both
currently in short supply are contributing to this slow pace of implementation. However,
perhaps this is not the issue is might appear to be. Organizational cultures change and
adapt very slowly. Therefore, even if resources were not severely limited, it is likely that
the pace of adoption of this proposed change in the management approach for the
national marine sanctuaries across the System would only progress as the institutional
culture continues to evolve and adapt. We have built the trough, have filled it with fresh,
clean water, and have led the horse to it, but are prepared to wait until it gets thirsty
enough to drink.
Not another Solution in Search of a Problem
All too frequently, we encounter situations where, in times of great uncertainty, we
reorganize or begin another round of strategic planning. Neither should careful scrutiny
of our organizational structure nor strategic planning be considered unworthy endeavors
when there is a demonstrated need to engage in these actions. However, they are
pointless when the strategic plan for an organization is serving its purpose, and the
organizational structure is sufficient to get the job done. When we are resource limited,
we should spend what time and energy we have on addressing real problems, seeking
innovative and creative solutions to the many challenges we face. As Barr (2013) offers,
the oceans and coasts, and the communities that inhabit these areas, are facing many
complex and significant problems. Global climate change is increasing the severity and
frequency of storms. Coastlines are being altered, sometimes significantly, and there is
considerable damage to infrastructure from these storm events. While these has been
some recovery of the economy, coastal communities remain hard hit, with collapses in
fisheries, and the increasing reliance on tourism providing less well-paying jobs but also
resulting in seasonal surges in population and increasing demands for services. The
societal burdens from the continued economic pressures are being exacted on coastal
communities in these challenging times. To add to the challenges, these are “wicked
problems”, difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and
changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize (Skaburskis, 2008). Finding
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�practical solutions will not be an easy task. Concurrently, as summarized by Barr (2013)
our governance system is also being challenged:
“...as the severity of these problems increases, potential management
responses that involve trade-offs and compromise are perceived as
unacceptable. Communities are deeply polarized by diminishing resources
and challenges that exceed our capacity to effectively address using more
traditional management approaches. There is also sometimes deep
mistrust of others who may have differing views and perspectives. In the
history of those places, however, similar challenges have confronted, and
these communities have successfully adapted to those changes, or
learned much by their failures. This history and experience has
considerable value in offering some hope for resolving problems being
encountered today”.
MCL can provide this historical context for our management of these special places. It
offers a forum for public engagement that involves not just addressing problems, but
speaks to the proud heritage of these communities, resilient places that have
“weathered the storms” and persisted. EBM is necessary, as incorporating the “human
element” in ocean and coastal stewardship has demonstrated its importance, but it may
not be sufficient. We can benefit considerably by “learning from the past”, so that we
are not “doomed to repeat it”. The effective integration of MCL and EBM in addressing
these challenges has the potential to be one of the creative and innovative solutions to
help “turn the tide” for coastal communities, and the MPA managers that work with them
to sustain their way of life.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Jim Delgado, Hans van Tilburg, and Paul Orlando for helpful comments and
advice regarding the ideas presented in this paper.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are solely the author’s, and do not reflect
the views of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, NOAA or any of its sub-agencies,
nor of the US Government.
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Barr, B. W., 2013.

Understanding and managing marine protected areas through

integrating ecosystem-based management within maritime cultural landscapes: Moving
from theory to practice. Ocean and Coastal Management, Vol. 84: 1984-192.
Delgado, J. P., (Unpublished Manuscript). The “Redwood Coast:” The maritime cultural
landscape of the potential expansion of Cordell Bank and Gulf of the Farallones
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�National Marine Sanctuaries. NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, Maritime
Heritage Program.
Jensen, J. O., Mather, R., and Gray, J., 2011. Viewing the future through the lens of
maritime cultural landscapes. Sanctuary Watch, Vol. Fall: 2-3.
Leslie, H. M., and McLeod, K. L., 2007. Confronting the challenges of implementing
marine ecosystem-based management. Front. Ecol. Environment, Vol. 5: 540-548.
Lofgren, O., 1981.Manniskanilandskapet-landskapetimanniskan. In L. Honko, and O.
Lofgren (Eds.), Tradition OchMiljii, Lund, Sweden: 235e261.
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Massachusetts, and PhD at the University of Alaska. He is currently a Senior Policy
Advisor in the NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, Adjunct Professor at the
School of Marine Sciences and Ocean Engineering at the University of New Hampshire,
and a Visiting Professor at the University Center of the Westfjords in Iceland. He is a
member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, and the International
Committee on Marine Mammal Protected Areas/IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas
Task Force.

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Valerie Grussing
National Marine Protected Areas Center, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
Email: valerie.grussing@noaa.gov
David Ball
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Camarillo, CA 93010, USA
Email: David.ball@boem.gov
Eirik Thorsgard
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, Grand Ronde, OR 97347
USA
Email: Eirik.thorsgard@grandronde.org
Briece Edwards
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon74, Grand Ronde
OR 97347, USA
Email: Briece.edwards@grandronde.org
Abstract
Understanding locations and types of significant archaeological and cultural resources
is essential to their preservation and consideration during ocean and coastal planning
processes. The goal of this project is to develop a proactive approach to working with
Native American communities to identify such areas of tribal significance. Information
from this effort will facilitate decision-making practices that consider the importance of
these locales, giving tribal communities a stronger voice during regional planning. This
project is a collaborative effort among the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
(BOEM), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Tribal Facilitators,
and the Tribal Historic Preservation Offices of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
in Oregon, Yurok Tribe in California, and Makah Tribe in Washington. This project uses
a holistic cultural landscape approach that integrates science with historical,
archaeological and traditional knowledge. The resulting tool describes methodologies
and best practices for tribes to identify and communicate areas of significance; case
studies from the three tribes will demonstrate how to use this tool. This effort will provide
transferable, transparent and cost-effective methods for tribes to document places and
resources, past and present, significant to their communities and outside agencies, thus
enhancing their capability for consultation. The project will produce an approach
adaptable by other tribal communities to help them record information on areas of tribal
importance, and give them a stronger voice during regional planning processes. This
project can help agencies and stakeholders engage with tribes prior to the proposal of
activities that may impact tribal resources and areas.
Key words: Cultural Heritage, Cultural Landscapes, Indigenous Methodologies, Ocean
Planning, Integrated Management
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�Overview
Understanding the types and locations of significant archaeological and cultural
resources is essential to their preservation and consideration during the planning
process for offshore renewable energy development, coastal and marine spatial
planning, and marine protected area (MPA) establishment and management. To help
address this information need, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is
working with NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS), the National
Marine Protected Areas Center, the Tribal Historic Preservation Offices of the Yurok
Tribe in California, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in Oregon, and Makah Tribe in
Washington, as well as two Tribal Facilitators and the National Marine Sanctuary
Foundation. The project – Characterizing Tribal Cultural Landscapes – is developing a
proactive approach to working with Native American communities to identify areas of
tribal significance that need to be considered in planning processes. Information from
this effort will help facilitate decision-making that takes into consideration the
importance of these locales, and give tribal communities a more powerful voice during
regional energy planning and other marine planning processes.
This project concept grew independently from multiple directions. The MPA Center was
seeking to operationalize the recommendations of the 2011 white paper approved by
the

Marine

Protected

Areas

Federal

Advisory

Committee

(MPA

FAC),

“Recommendations for Integrated Management Using a Cultural Landscape Approach
in the National MPA System” (MPA FAC, 2011). Within ONMS, the Maritime Heritage
Program was just beginning to implement its Maritime Cultural Landscapes Initiative,
described in further detail by Dr. Brad Barr in his paper, “Developing a Maritime Cultural
Landscape Approach to Managing US National Marine Sanctuaries”. The Confederated
Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (CTGR) submitted a proposal to
BOEM to characterize its own cultural landscapes and develop a transferable
methodology. The Makah Tribe had been partnering with the Olympic Coast National
Marine Sanctuary for a number of years on an integrated approach to cultural and
natural resource management. The Yurok Tribe also previously worked with NOAA on
multiple efforts. All three tribes have a Tribal Historic Preservation Officer with an
understanding of a cultural landscape approach. This project is funded by the U.S.
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�Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, through an
Interagency Agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service. It is contracted through the
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation.
Cultural Landscape Approach
Using a holistic Cultural Landscape Approach (CLA) that integrates science with
historical, archaeological, and traditional knowledge, this project will develop a tool
describing best practices for tribal communities to identify and communicate areas of
significance. Case studies from the three tribes will demonstrate how to use this tool. It
will provide a transferable, transparent and cost-effective method for tribes with a
connection to the coast to document past and present places and resources significant
to their communities, thus enhancing their capacity for consultation in advance of any
proposed undertakings.
The project’s guiding principles are derived from Tuhiwai-Smith’s "Decolonizing
Methodologies" (2012). Many indigenous peoples and their supporters are engaged in
the process of decolonizing methodologies, which involves widespread efforts to
revitalize indigenous cultures as well as refocus the standard interpretation of history to
be more inclusive and less ethnocentric. Some of these guiding principles include
indigenous self-determination of a community’s own research needs and priorities, and
the ways in which research should proceed. Culturally sympathetic methods and
culturally appropriate ethics thus take center stage. Training of indigenous researchers
is also a priority, extending the boundaries for indigenous peoples of their fields and
disciplines. Importantly, tribes develop and disseminate literature on research and
methods, thus providing chances to educate the wider scientific, academic and policy
communities. Additionally, this can foster increased collaboration among tribes, and
help ensure accountabilities to and outcomes for tribes.
A Vision for Cultural Heritage
The MPA FAC white paper contains the following vision statement for cultural heritage:
“Achieving and maintaining healthy coastal and marine ecosystems requires a
fundamental understanding of the relationships between people and the
environment. Cultural heritage, which belongs to all people, emphasizes these
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�connections, whether that heritage takes the material form of, for example,
maritime resources (such as shipwrecks), natural resources (such as marine
species and habitats), or sacred places. Through the national MPA system,
cultural relationships among people and historic, natural, and place-based
heritage resources are preserved and perpetuated in ways that recognize and
share multiple cultural voices and knowledge systems for the benefit of all”
(2011).
A Cultural Landscape Approach (CLA) will help managers nationwide to identify and
adopt policies and practices that manage cultural and natural resources at the
ecosystem and landscape levels, in an integrated and adaptive manner. The protection
of cultural heritage resources in marine areas is often separate from that of natural
resources, a divide with administrative origins. The ecosystem-based management
called for in the National Ocean Policy (Executive Order 13547), and advocated by
countless scientists and natural resource management professionals “recognizes that
the connections between living things and the physical environment are multifaceted
and often inseparable” (MPA FAC, 2011). This ecosystem-based approach requires
understanding both cultural and natural elements, and the human dimensions of the
environment. In contrast to previous cultural resource management paradigms, which
approached resources individually for study and preservation, “CLA uses cultural
landscapes as an analytical framework to understand places and their associated
resources” (MPA FAC, 2011). Analogous and complementary to ecosystem-based
management, CLA examines the relationships among living and non-living resources,
and their environment over time.
This integrated approach can advance deeper understanding of the human connections
to, and influences on, critical marine ecosystems over time. Such comprehensive
analysis and management can also identify the past and living cultural voices
associated with an ecosystem, helping ensure the fullest possible public engagement in
efforts including resource management, marine spatial planning, and ocean exploration.
This holistic approach integrates the complexities and power of contemporary science
with historical, archaeological, and cultural knowledge and the human values of love of

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�place. Adopting a Cultural Landscape Approach strengthens our will and enhances our
capacities to steward wisely the world we inhabit.
Inter-tribal Workshops
Three inter-tribal workshops were conducted in the Fall of 2013, bringing together
federal and tribal partners to identify best practices and general resources significant to
tribal communities. The host tribe of each workshop engaged neighboring tribes with
coastal ties, as well as regional staff of federal and state agencies, to identify best
practices and general resources significant to tribal communities. An Analysis Guide
describing these best practices and processes for identifying tribal cultural landscapes,
including common terminology, is being drafted, to be augmented as necessary
throughout the duration of the project. Each of the three participating tribes is designing
and implementing their respective case studies identifying tribal cultural landscapes,
and will create and manage their own databases and record systems. Throughout the
project, partners will conduct outreach describing the process, including methodologies,
analysis and non-sensitive data.
The workshops provided tribes with a connection to the Pacific Ocean an opportunity to
contribute to the development of the methodology. We began with constructing a
definition of the key concept: Tribal Cultural Landscape. During the first workshop,
hosted by CTGR, participating tribes developed a draft definition for consideration by
agency representatives. Both groups discussed applicability and opportunities for
implementation within current legislation and mandates. During the second workshop,
hosted by the Makah Tribe, and the third workshop, hosted by the Yurok Tribe,
participants reviewed and refined the definition and discussed existing federal
legislation where cultural landscape studies may be most applicable and beneficial to
tribes and agencies. Workshop participants also began a glossary of terms for the
Analysis Guide, and discussed the role of natural resources in cultural landscapes.
The working definition is:
“…any place in which a relationship, past or present, exists between a spatial area,
resource, and an associated group of indigenous people whose cultural practices,
beliefs, or identity connects them to that place. A Tribal Cultural Landscape is
determined by and known to a culturally related group of indigenous people with
relationship to that place” (Fig. 1).

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�Fig. 1 TCL Project team conducts a panel discussion during the Inter-tribal Workshop hosted by
Yurok Tribe in Klamath, CA. (V. Grussing)
Fig. 2 Memorial Post at the mouth of the Salmon River, to honor the Neschesne people and the
village that stood there, Carved by Grand Ronde artist, Travis Stewart. (T. Stewart)
Beyond Traditional Cultural Properties
Tribal Cultural Landscapes (TCLs) as defined in this way are areas of cultural
importance to communities that have multi-generational ties to geographic regions.
This definition is broader and more open than that of Traditional Cultural Properties
(TCPs), as defined in National Register Bulletin 38, in several ways (Parker and King,
1998). Most importantly, TCPs are locations with distinctly defined extents. The National
Register definition does not allow for indigenous groups to show the interconnection of
places that are integrally related but not within sight of each other. This broader
definition of TCLs can encompass how TCPs and other cultural sites are related to a
group’s worldview and its geographic expanse. Second, TCLs enable the consideration
of a community’s worldview and identity. The primary focus of identity for a given
society or cultural group is how its members understand their world and interact with it.
Their stories, places of cultural practice, villages, places of creation, and religious
locations define not just usage and worldview, but also an intimate relationship between
space and identity. By expounding the worldview of an indigenous group, we can more
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�clearly understand a people’s concept of identity and how it is transferred between
generations. Third, for most indigenous cultures, the practice of culture is not something
rooted in the past. It is a living, breathing, interactive part of modern identity. TCPs and
many standard archaeological methods situate the practice of indigenous culture in the
past. By looking at contemporary indigenous groups’ cultural practices, we can more
clearly understand past and future use of a given place, and the value it has to a
community. Importantly, TCLs are determined by indigenous people with a relationship
to that place. As summarized by McKinnon (et al., In press), community archaeology is
based on indigenous people exercising agency in their cultural heritage, and
“collaborating in the decision making about research topics, sites, data, curation, and
the production of materials that are culturally appropriate and useful”. The concept of
Tribal Cultural Landscapes has broad applicability for tribes and agencies. Workshop
participants noted its general applicability under NEPA, and parts of Section 101 and
106 of NHPA. This would allow TCL studies to be used in planning processes by
agencies with land management responsibilities, and for regulatory and compliance
requirements for most federal agencies and other designated parties. Implementation of
the proposed process was identified by both tribal and agency representatives as being
most meaningful and relevant during the pre-planning phase of project development
commonly referred to as scoping. Workshop participants unanimously acknowledged
the importance of information originating with tribes and being vetted through tribal
process (Fig. 2).
Case studies and Analysis guide
In the case studies, cultural resource types to be identified may include traditional
cultural properties, traditional subsistence and commerce activities, residential and
occupational activities, spiritual and ceremonial sites and activities. Case study activities
may include archival research, field investigations and site visits, community outreach,
oral histories and transcriptions. Each participating tribe will determine its own research
goals and priorities, in collaboration with BOEM and NOAA to ensure that they are
contributing to overall project goals and outcomes. The project team will incorporate
information and processes from the workshops and case studies into an Analysis Guide,
which will include common terminology and provide a methodology for identifying tribal
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�cultural landscapes. The purpose is to devise a semi-replicable system that would be
held internally by Tribes and specifically structured for recording information relevant to
culturally-sensitive areas. In tandem with the data structure created and maintained by
each tribe, there will be a working guide for the holder of the database as well as a
counterpart document for use by federal agencies so they can ask questions
appropriate to the data held and maintained by Tribes. This will allow for the collection
and control of information by groups with the cultural understanding of the information,
but also ensures that agencies have sufficient understanding of the information being
held in order to ask appropriate questions as they relate to any proposed undertakings.
The development of the Analysis Guide will:


Address the cultural understanding and context of cultural resources from an
indigenous perspective;



Address and suggest mechanisms for maneuvering through the sensitivity
concerns of tribes;



Develop a list of topics that should be consistently asked for by project
proponents; and



Develop a suggested template or guide for tribes to collect and hold information
that can be queried internally with the ability to provide summary results to
external parties.

The objective is to ensure that information is protected and retained by respective tribal
communities, while ensuring that the information can be sufficiently synthesized and
made available for review by federal agencies for any proposed undertakings. The case
studies will record information related to tribal cultural landscapes, and the Analysis
Guide will address pertinent querying and application of the data, emphasizing
synthesis of the information without dishonoring the significance or sacredness of sites.
Benefits
The project will be completed by December 2014, and will result in an approach that
can be adapted by other tribes and tribal communities to help record geospatial
information and attributes on areas of tribal importance. As more tribal communities
engage in the confidential identification of their own significant resources and areas of
use, this approach can be beneficial to three overarching processes. It can give tribal
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�communities a more powerful voice during regional energy planning, coastal and marine
spatial planning, and MPA establishment and management. This project is intended to
help agencies such as BOEM and stakeholders engage with tribal and indigenous
communities prior to the proposal of activities that may impact tribal resources and
areas. In so doing, regional energy planning and siting decisions, and related impact
assessments, can be made more soundly and efficiently, thus minimizing potential
conflicts, controversies, legal challenges and delays.
This approach can also help fill a critical data gap in ocean planning and management,
and be applied to coastal and marine spatial planning efforts through the National
Ocean Council and Regional Planning Bodies. Although this project is not directly
related to these specific efforts, the approach can be valuable in helping agencies such
as NOAA and stakeholders communicate more effectively and appropriately with tribes,
and involve them in the process. It can also facilitate communication among tribes, as
well as clarify and promote tribal interests in specific planning areas.
The approach has the potential to be useful in the management of existing MPAs, as
well as for tribal and indigenous communities interested in establishing their own MPAs.
Many, if not all, existing MPAs are within the traditional territory of tribal and indigenous
peoples. In some regions where tribes were dislocated from their territory early in the
colonial era, tribal cultural resources may be seen to consist primarily of archaeological
sites, historic landscapes, and archival resources. In these cases, where managers may
have insufficient capacity to document and inventory these resources, the analysis
guide and case studies created by this project could help researchers to conduct a more
comprehensive landscape-level analysis while maximizing limited funds.
In regions where tribes have extant reservations, treaty or ceded territory, or usual and
accustomed use areas (off-reservation areas of treaty-reserved fishing, hunting, and
gathering rights), tribal cultural resources can also include natural resources and areas
significant for current use by tribes. Increasingly, federal, state and local management
agencies are incorporating tribal and indigenous interests, perspectives, and knowledge
into agency management policies and practices. In order for these interests to be
appropriately considered,

indigenous peoples

must be

integrally involved

in

management processes. The approach created during this project can illuminate tribal
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�interests within MPAs and facilitate communication among management agencies,
stakeholders, and tribes, ultimately giving tribal communities a stronger voice in both the
protection of an MPA’s cultural resources, as well as appropriate management of its
natural resources. Furthermore, tribal communities who apply this approach to
characterize their own significant resources and places may subsequently be able to
leverage the products into the establishment of indigenous MPAs under indigenous
authority and management.
Acknowledgements
Valerie would like to thank her co-authors for their vital roles in bringing this concept and
project to fruition, as well as Brian Jordan, James Delgado, Robert Steelquist, Roberta
Cordero, Jon Townsend, Janine Ledford, Rebekah Monette, Robert McConnell, Rosie
Clayburn, Jennifer Ewald, and Roy Watters. Our esprit de corps as we conduct this
meaningful work is invaluable.
References
Executive Order 13547, July 22, 2010, 75 FR 43023.
McKinnon, J., Mushynsky, J., and Cabrera, G., In Press. A Fluid Sea in the Mariana
Islands: Mapping the Seascape of Saipan. Journal of Maritime Archaeology.
MPA FAC., 2011. Recommendations for Integrated Management Using a Cultural
Landscape Approach in the National MPA System, retrieval 27 Dec 2012 from
http://marineprotectedareas.noaa.gov/pdf/helpfulresources/mpafac_rec_cultural_landscape_12_11.pdf
Parker, P. L., and King, T. F., 1998. (rev.), National Register Bulletin 38: Guidelines for
Evaluating and Documenting Traditional Cultural Properties, retrieval 27 Dec 2012 from
http://www.nps.gov/nr/publications/bulletins/nrb38/
Tuhiwai-Smith, L., 2012. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous
Peoples. 2nd Ed. Zed Books, London.
Biographies
Valerie Grussing is the Cultural Resources Coordinator for the National Marine
Protected Areas Center. She works with federal, state, academic and NGO underwater
archaeologists, coastal tribes, and other marine resource managers to foster
partnerships and create information and tools to help protect and preserve the nation’s
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�coastal and marine cultural resources. She obtained her BA in History from North
Carolina State University in 2000, and her MA in Anthropology from the University of
Iowa in 2002, and her PhD in Coastal Resources Management from East Carolina
University in 2009, specializing in the Maritime Studies track.
Dave Ball is the Pacific Region Historic Preservation Officer and Diving Safety Officer
for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). Before joining BOEM he worked
for several archaeological firms in the Pacific Northwest. He received his BA in
anthropology from Sonoma State University in 1992 and MA in anthropology from
Florida State University in 1998. Dave has over 20 years’ experience in archaeology
and has directed field research on both terrestrial and underwater archaeological sites
across the country, including inundated prehistoric sites, World War II shipwrecks, and
deepwater shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico. He is currently serving on the Board of
Directors for the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology.
Eirik Thorsgard is a tribal member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
Community of Oregon. He is the Tribe’s appointed Historic Preservation Officer and
coordinator of the Cultural Protection Program. He received his MA in Archaeology from
Oregon State University and is completing his PhD in the same discipline. He regularly
participates in cultural events and practices sponsored by his Tribe. He is actively
engaged in research relevant to the identification and protection of TCPs in his
ancestral lands and beyond. He has been appointed to numerous professional councils
and committees focused on cultural heritage protection and identification.
Briece Edwards is Archaeologist for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
Community of Oregon, based in the Tribal Historic Preservation Office. He coordinates
cultural resource actions on Tribal Lands and develops and maintains the Tribe’s Site
Inventory. He serves as the Tribe’s Cultural Resources compliance review contact, and
coordinates interns and special projects within the THPO/Cultural Resources Protection
Program. He developed the Program’s GIS system to record, track, and monitor tribally
important cultural resources. Briece received his BA in Anthropology from the University
of Maryland, MA from North Carolina State University and MPhil from the University of
Bradford.

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Hans Van Tilburg
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Email: hans.vantilburg@noaa.gov
Dave Ball
BOEM Environmental Assessment Section, Camarillo, California 93010, USA
Email: david.ball@boem.gov
Abstract
Understanding the types and locations of significant archaeological and cultural
resources is essential to their protection. NOAA and the Bureau of Ocean Energy and
Management (BOEM) have teamed up to support an assessment of historic properties
and cultural resources in the main Hawaiian Islands. Objectives for this project include:
1) a database of verified, reported, and potential submerged cultural resources in the
Hawai`i Outer Continental Shelf; 2) a database of historic properties that could be
adversely impacted by alteration of the ocean viewshed; and 3) a management tool for
engaging Native Hawaiian communities in identifying significant marine areas for
offshore energy development planning purposes.
Key words: Resource Management, Hawaiian Islands, Indigenous community,
Mitigation, Viewshed
Origin of the Project
The remote main eight Hawaiian Islands are approximately 3,900 km from the North
American continent, 6,000 km from Japan, and 7,000 km from Papua New Guinea.
Their coasts and near shore waters represent, for the most part, a high-energy marine
environment subject to the prevailing northeasterly Trade Winds, open ocean swells,
Pacific storms, quake-generated tsunami, and passing hurricanes. There are few
natural harbors or safe anchorages, though fringing and barrier reefs provide some
protection. The warm clear waters are home to the Teredonavalis shipworm, and
currents and surge contribute to sand scouring and marine weathering of all artifacts.
However, compared to continents, the waters around the Hawaiian Islands drop off very
quickly. For instance, 300-600 m are typical depths for the three-mile limit around the

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�island of O‘ahu. At these depths, historic wreck sites are little affected by the recurring
storms and tsunami events that impact the upper ocean levels.
Initiating a comprehensive and systematic documentation of cultural resources for the
marine environment of the main Hawaiian Islands (survey does not include the remote
Northwestern atolls) is a challenging and daunting task. No such comprehensive survey
has yet been completed, though some progress has been made in gathering specific
information regarding historic properties such as shipwrecks and submerged aircraft.
Hawai‘i’s high-energy marine environment has long been hazardous for mariners, and
hundreds of ships have been reported lost. But one of the most interesting challenges
for understanding underwater cultural heritage (UCH) in the islands is the fact that, until
recent years, the overall definition of cultural resources in Hawai‘i generally did not
included historic properties like shipwrecks, so commonly recognized as UCH in other
locations.
In general, the main focus of cultural resource efforts in Hawai‘i has been the
maintenance and preservation of indigenous cultural access, traditional practices, and
active human connections and relationships to marine species and culturally significant
natural resources. These are issues of immediate importance to local communities,
dynamic issues that bear directly on maintaining cultural practices and cultural identity.
The fact that shipwreck archaeology is relatively new to the islands is not due to a lack
of attention to cultural resources; just the opposite, it is due to the fact that cultural
resources and resource preservation, in the broadest sense, have been and are
overwhelmingly important in Hawai‘i. Historic properties like shipwrecks represent the
new element or “player” brought into an existing and much older discussion.
Historic wreck sites are obviously important to archaeologists and historians as unique
and non-renewable sources of information. They have also been important to Hawai‘i’s
recreational diving industry and even to fishermen as productive fishing sites.
Yethistoric wreck sites have not been part of the cultural resource discussion at a
program or agency level until more recent years. For instance, while cultural resources
are a large part of the 2012 Hawaii Ocean Resources Public Management Plan (Anon,
2012), shipwrecks or submerged historic properties are not mentioned within the

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�document. Sensitivity to Hawai‘i’s unique history and a special sense of place is
required for understanding cultural resource governance in the islands.
This presentation focuses on a new and innovative resource management three-year
inventory project, the Maritime Cultural Resource Site Assessment in the Main Hawaiian
Islands, funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management (BOEM), through an Interagency Agreement with the U.S. Department of
Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean
Service. This project proposes new ways of conducting cultural resource inventory work,
methods that are better suited to recording information in a manner that recognizes
Hawai‘i’s investment in cultural resource management, and better suited to engaging
Native Hawaiian Organizations and communities, as well as accounting for the existing
values that archaeologists and historians bring to the mix.
The origin of this project is actually the State of Hawai‘i’s effort to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions and develop local energy independence. The State supports a mandate
to achieve 70% “green” energy independence by the year 2040. Offshore renewable
energy development will be a part of the effort to meet this goal. Understanding the
types and locations of significant archaeological and cultural resources will be essential
to their protection in the context of this coming development. Therefore, NOAA and the
Bureau of Ocean Energy and Management (BOEM) have teamed up to support the site
assessment project, producing the tools of the desk-based assessment for the entire
main eight Hawaiian Islands, prior to the specific proposal of any single specific
development project.
There are three main objectives for this project: 1) create a database of verified,
reported, and potential submerged cultural resources in the Hawai`i Outer Continental
Shelf; 2) create a database of historic properties on shore that could be adversely
impacted by alteration of the ocean viewshed; and 3) create a management tool for
engaging Native Hawaiian communities in identifying significant marine areas for
offshore energy development planning purposes. There are a number of important
benefits stemming from the overall goal of resource protection from potential impacts.
For NOAA the project will help meet the agency’s mandate to inventory historic
properties, and most importantly build on two decades of growing social awareness of
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�maritime heritage properties in Hawai‘i. For BOEM the project will obviously facilitate
decision-making for offshore renewable energy development by providing the
groundwork for cultural resources review, helping make siting decisions more efficiently.
Finally, for Native Hawaiian stakeholders the project will (hopefully) better engage
communities with agencies prior to the proposal of activities that may impact resources.
Objective 1: Database of Verified and Potential Submerged Cultural Resources on
the Outer Continental Shelf
(Note: the volcanic islands of Hawai‘i originate in a denser oceanic tectonic plate, not a
lighter continental plate; hence, they have no actual continental shelf. Here the term
OCS is used to designate the main study zone from 3-200 miles offshore).
Objective 1, the inventory of verified, reported, and potential submerged cultural
resources on the Hawai`i outer continental shelf, will be the most familiar to maritime
archaeologists as it replicates, in part, the standard desk-based assessment tool
highlighted in UNESCO’s UCH Foundation courses, and published in the Training
Manual for the UNESCO Foundation Course on the Protection and Management of
Underwater Cultural Heritage in Asia and the Pacific (UNESCO, 2012). NOAA
sanctuary staff are currently examining primary and secondary archival sources and
developing a Microsoft Access database of confirmed, reported, and potential
submerged archaeological resources within the survey area. The project specifies the 3200 mile offshore Federal waters zone, but existing data for the near shore 0-3 mile
zone may be included as well, in order to make a more usable inventory. The targeted
archival sources include: the Hawai‘i State Historic Preservation Division records; State
and Federal shipwreck databases; the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum; internet
sources; maritime insurance companies records; the National Archives (e.g., customs
house records, wreck reports, Federal Admiralty court records, etc.); public, private, and
academic libraries; public and private maritime museums; historic newspapers
(including currently available translations of Hawaiian language newspapers), private
papers and collections; historic maps and navigation charts; archaeological site reports;
and federal, state, and private hangs and obstructions databases.
Though the shipwreck topics relatively new here in Hawai‘i, there is existing field
information in a variety of forms: numerous shallow water maritime archaeology site
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�plans and surveys (SCUBA depths) by NOAA and University of Hawai‘i divers as part of
the Maritime Archaeology Survey Techniques courses; discoveries, images, and
informal reports by sport and technical divers; and multiple deep water site discoveries,
including high-definition video surveys, by the Hawai‘i Undersea Research Lab (HURL).
HURL was established in 1980 as a joint NOAA/University of Hawai‘i center with the
primary responsibility of advancing knowledge of the nation’s deepwater resources and
marine processes which are crucial for effective ecosystem-based management. HURL
has two three-person research submersibles; Pisces IV and Pisces V (Fig. 1).These are
battery-powered, one-atmosphere submersibles with a maximum operating depth of
2000 m (6,280 ft). They offer scientists direct observation through three view ports,
high-definition

video

cameras,

instrument

placement,

sample

collecting,

and

environmental monitoring. Though maritime archaeology and cultural resource
management has usually not been a priority for fully-funded missions, HURL has
investigated numerous maritime heritage properties during their pre-season training
dives, preparing both submersibles and pilots prior to the dive season (Fig. 2). Maritime
archaeologists have been able to take advantage of the excellent working relationship
between NOAA and the University of Hawai‘i, and the generosity and professionalism of
HURL Operations Director Terry Kerby and his staff, to gain unique data on deep water
discoveries.

Fig. 1 HURL 3-man research submersible PISCES V launching from
the submerged LRT.(C. Wollerman, HURL)
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�Fig. 2 Deep water discoveries of naval aircraft circa 1938, one of many types
of resources found by the HURL team. (H. Van Tilburg, NOAA ONMS)
Several important documents and collections provide critical background information for
the UCH inventory, though some include only near shore (0-3mi) information. The 19891990 Hawaiian Fishpond Study including the islands of O‘ahu, Moloka‘i, Maui, Lāna‘i,
Kaua‘i, and Hawai‘i is the largest state-wide statistical survey of coastal fishpond field
data, supported by the Bishop Museum (DHM: 1989; 1990). Mifflin Thomas’s Hawaiian
Registered Vessels lists statistical and service data for selected ships of both the
historic Kingdom period 1800-1893 and subsequent Territory of Hawai‘i period 18931959 (Thomas, 1982). Thrum’s Hawaiian Annual 1842-1932, Honolulu features an
annual summary of marine casualties. Specific shipwreck losses can also be traced
through newspaper issues of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser (1856-1912) (later the
Honolulu Advertiser), as well as the local Star Bulletin (1912-2001).

Finally, naval

shipwreck and aircraft losses have been detailed in U.S. Shipwrecks in Hawaiian
Waters: an Inventory of Submerged Naval Properties (Van Tilburg, 2002) produced by a
grant from the Naval Historical Center in Washington DC (now known as the Naval
History and Heritage Command). Inventory work is continuing to build upon this
foundation.

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�The existing and somewhat scattered field and archival inventory data is focused on 0-3
mile near shore resources and suggestive of three broad categories of cultural heritage
resources: 1) pre-western contact Native Hawaiian archaeological sites such as coastal
fishponds and fish traps; 2) 19th and early 20th century commercial transportation,
including whaling and sealing ships, Pacific cargo vessels, and inter island steamships
servicing the (former) Hawaiian plantations; and 3) military vessels, including surface
ships, submarines, and submerged naval aircraft. The offshore 3-200 mile OCS
inventory brings a new focus and new dataset to the fore.
Objective 2: Database of Historic Properties that could be adversely impacted by
Alteration of the Ocean View Shed
For Objective 2, NOAA sanctuary staff will conduct research in the office of the Hawai‘i
State Historic Preservation Division and develop a database of terrestrial properties that
could be visually affected from offshore renewable energy siting. The data to be
collected includes historic and archaeological information related to properties that are
nominated to, or are eligible for, listing on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
This may seem like an odd task for maritime archaeologists. For preservationists and
cultural practitioners, however, the connection is clear.
The National Register establishes criteria for measuring historical significance, an
important step in valuing and preservation heritage resources. Traditional Cultural
Properties, or locations associated with traditional beliefs or religious ceremonies, or
economic or artistic practices central in maintaining a community’s identity, may meet
National Register criteria and be protected (Shrimpton, 1990). Recently, the viewshed
or view plane of the ocean itself was interpreted as a type of historical “property” (Fig. 3).
Precedence was set in the review of the proposed Cape Wind (offshore turbine wind
farm) energy project in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts (MMS, 2010). The Aquinnah
and Mashpee Wampanoag Native Tribes claimed that the proposed wind turbines had
the potential to degrade their essential view of the sunrise for religious ceremonies and
also the view of the ocean central in other rituals. In an island state like Hawai‘i, with an
active and engaged host culture, it is only natural that federal agencies begin to address
the issue of viewsheds of the ocean as they pertain to the cultural significance of
specific areas of the marine environment.
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�Fig. 3 The raised Hawaiian temple at Pu`ukoholāHeiau National Historic
Site on the Island of Hawai`i, a place where cultural practices continue.
(H. Van Tilburg, NOAA ONMS)
Objective 3: Management Tool for Engaging Native Hawaiian Communities in
Identifying Significant Marine Areas
For objective 3, NOAA sanctuary staff will work with a Native Hawaiian Project
Facilitator to develop a consultative working group. The group will include members of
NOAA’s Maritime Heritage Program, the Facilitator, the BOEM contracting office
representative, and representatives from each of the main Hawaiian Islands (including
island districts and/or counties). The working group will coordinate and facilitate the
development of an analysis guide through a series of workshops, meetings, trainings,
and consultations, as necessary, held during the project. This analysis guide or
management tool will identify community heritage resource leaders, define common
terminology, establish protocols for handling sensitive issues, establish reciprocal datasharing for information validation, develop a list of topics that should be consistently
asked for by project proponents, and create a template for Hawaiian communities to
collect and hold information that can be queried internally with the ability to provide
summary results to external parties. That is a major paradigm shift. The project
proposes to grant communities greater ability to manage and control their own sensitive
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�cultural resource information rather than automatically require them to reveal sensitive
information to government agencies. Information obtained from this project will provide
baseline information for Native Hawaiian communities, helping to recognize and
document marine areas of cultural importance. In short, the working group will develop
a guidance tool that will help local communities navigate through cultural management
discussions, particularly where those discussions involve sensitive resources and
critical marine areas.
The working group will then test the analysis document tool by conducting independent
case studies, identifying indigenous cultural landscapes within a pre-defined study area.
At its most basic, cultural landscapes are specific places where combinations of human
activity and natural forces have left a discernable mark or footprint on the environment
(Jensen et al., 2011). The landscape studies will begin with a Traditional Cultural
Property (TCP) and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) analysis of Native
Hawaiian sites and resources within the selected areas (Fig. 4). These case studies will
focus on areas that include coastal land-based, as well as offshore, areas of Native
Hawaiian significance. Each case study will incorporate an area of one or more
traditional Hawaiian ahupua`a, a land division developed by ruling chiefs of the islands
in the 15th century which typically runs from the mountain ridge to the fringing reef,
usually encompassing an entire watershed. The types of cultural resource information to
be identified include traditional cultural properties in a maritime context, information
related to traditional gathering, hunting, fishing and other subsistence and commerce
activities, as well as those related to spiritual and ceremonial sites and activities. The
working group, workshops, and case studies provide an analysis guidance tool that
(hopefully) will assist local communities in conducting their own maritime cultural
landscape assessments. Familiar heritage resources like shipwrecks do not
automatically rise to the fore here, unless those types of resources are valued by the
community itself. Significance, in this instance, is not defined by government mandates
and enforced from above, but rather is more reflective of local values and generated at
the grass-roots community level.

9

�Fig. 4 The emergent walls of the Hawaiian stone fish traps and fish pond at
Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historic Park. (H. Van Tilburg, NOAA ONMS)
Project Challenges and Questions
The ambitious and innovative approach represented by this maritime resource
assessment project raises interesting challenges for Hawai‘i’s cultural preservation
efforts. The project will not be easy to complete. Discussions regarding cultural
resources are always lengthy and highly charged in Hawai‘i, and this is a complicated
project inclusive of a large amount of public input in a process that has no precedent
among the islands. The fact that local communities, in Hawai‘i and elsewhere, often feel
disenfranchised by development interests and may perceive that their access to cultural
resources deteriorates over time, engenders an understandable amount of wariness
among the public. Those who are familiar with Hawai‘i’s history also know that the
United States was clearly implicated in the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Islands in
1893, for which the presidential executive office issued a formal apology 100 years after
the fact. They also know that the diseases that flourished in the wake of the Western
discovery of Hawai‘i in 1778, followed by subsequent social and economic upheaval,
devastated the Hawaiian population, cultural practices and traditions, and very fabric of
Hawaiian society. Cultural practices, identity, and cultural resources are therefore
inseparable, and managing cultural resources is a complex and critical challenge in the
islands.
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�For exactly these reasons, this project attempts what may be an improvement on the
way that cultural resources have been assessed, managed, and ultimately protected in
the United States thus far. If successful, local communities may be more empowered in
resource management decisions that affect their islands.

Because the underwater

cultural heritage falls under the larger definition of cultural resources, and UCH does
include a wide variety of historic and prehistoric properties, BOEM has therefore
included project support for the Asia Pacific Conference on UCH 2014 and is one of the
main APCONF conference sponsors. The project obviously has a contribution to make
in understanding the underwater cultural heritage of Hawai‘i, and just as obviously, parts
of the project go way beyond the definition of “underwater cultural heritage”. Or do they?
Considering the intense level of cultural resource engagement locally in Hawai‘i, and
also considering the passage of the international UNESCO 2001 Convention on the
Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, one might ask “where is the intersection
between these two efforts? Is there any? How much of what is considered “cultural
resources” in Hawai‘i is really included in the definition of UCH: “…all traces of human
existence that lie or were lying underwater and have a cultural or historical character”?
Clearly, shipwrecks are part of the UCH, whether or not they are popularly regarded as
cultural resources in Hawai‘i. And clearly, pre-Western contact lithic remains of stone
fishponds and traps, along with canoe anchors, artifacts associated with coastal villages,
and specific accumulations of ancient fishing tools, are part of the UCH resource base,
under “objects of prehistoric character.”But humans have been intentionally and
inadvertently shaping their environment, both terrestrial and marine, for a very long
time...much, much longer than the existence of any written definition of “traditional
cultural properties” or criteria from the National Register of Historic Places (Fig. 5). This
has led to the cultural landscape approach being used as the interpretive tool to
understand cumulative impacts to the environment in a more holistic fashion. Canall
these landscapes be UCH as well?

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�Fig. 5 The plantation-era ruins of the industrial harbor at Mahukona, once
the entry port for the Kingdom of Hawai`i. The submerged steamship wreck
from 1913 lies to the left. The whole environment, harbor, and wreck, make
up the cultural landscape here.(H. Van Tilburg, NOAA ONMS)
One could pursue the merit of including or excluding a given resource as cultural
heritage for a long time. That is something of a theoretical exercise. Perhaps it would
be better, for our efforts in Hawai‘i, to approach the question from the local perspective
of the intended results. Definitions of landscapes and underwater cultural heritage and
cultural resources all serve a similar purpose: they are intended to promote the
understanding and preservation of resources that are valued for a number of reasons,
including maintaining cultural identity. Is it worthwhile to understand the cultural
resources and long-term impacts associated with traditional hunting, fishing, and
gathering activities in the context of potential UCH? Is it worthwhile to think broadly
about the definition of UCH, beyond the familiar shipwreck sites? The local answer is a
pragmatic “yes,” if by doing so, those “traces of human existence” that are valued by
communities as significant may have a better chance at being understood and protected.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the Bureau of Ocean Energy and Management for
making the project possible, and the dedicated staff of the National Marine Protected
Area Center for providing the impetus for the development of the cultural landscape
approach as it pertains to maritime heritage resources.

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�References
Anon., 2012. Hawaii Ocean Resources Management Plan, Public Review Draft. Hawaii
CZM Program State Office of Planning, Honolulu.
DHM Planners Inc., 1989. Hawaiian fishpond study: islands of Oahu, Molokai, and
Hawaii / prepared by DHM Planners, Inc. and Public Archaeology Section, Applied
Research Group, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu.
DHM Planners Inc., 1990. Hawaiian fishpond study: islands of Hawaii, Maui, Lanai and
Kauai / prepared by DHM Inc., Public Archaeology Section, Applied Research Group,
Bishop Museum and Moon, O'Connor, Tam &amp; Yuen, Honolulu.
Honolulu Star Bulletin 1912-2001, Honolulu, Hawaii daily newspaper.
Jensen, J. O., Mather, R. and Gray, J., 2011. Viewing the Future through the Lens of the
Maritime Cultural Landscape. Sanctuary Watch, Fall: 2-3.
MMS (U.S. Minerals Management Service), 2010.Record of Decision: Cape Wind
Energy Project, Horseshoe Shoal, Nantucket Sound. U.S. Department of Interior,
Washington DC.
Pacific Commercial Advertiser 1856-1921, (becomes Honolulu Advertiser), Honolulu
Hawaii daily newspaper.
Shrimpton, R. H., (Ed.), 1990. National Register Bulletin: How to Apply the National
Register Criteria for Evaluation. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service,
Washington DC.
Thomas, M., 1982. Hawaiian Interisland Vessels and Hawaiian Registered Vessels.
Seacoast Press, Santa Barbara.
Thrum’s Hawaiian Annual 1842-1932. Star-Bulletin Press, Honolulu.
UNESCO, 2012. Training Manual for the UNESCO Foundation Course on the
Protection and Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage in Asia and the Pacific.
UNESCO Bangkok Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, Bangkok.
Van Tilburg, H., 2002. U.S. Shipwrecks in Hawaiian Waters: an Inventory of Submerged
Naval Properties. Naval Historical Center, Washington DC.
Hans Van Tilburg holds a BA in geography from University of California Berkeley, an
MA in maritime archaeology/history from East Carolina University and a PhD in history
from the University of Hawai‘i, where he ran the graduate program in maritime
archaeology and history. Hans has taught courses in world maritime history and
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�published over 30 articles and book reviews, as well as several books. He has served
as a consultant for UNESCO’s cultural heritage program and instructor for UNESCO’s
UCH Foundation courses. He is currently the maritime heritage coordinator and unit
diving supervisor for NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries in the Pacific.
Dave Ball is the Pacific Region Historic Preservation Officer and Diving Safety Officer
for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). Before joining BOEM he worked
for several archaeological firms in the Pacific Northwest. He received a BA in
anthropology from Sonoma State University in 1992 and an MA in anthropology from
Florida State University in 1998. Dave has over 20 years’ experience in archaeology
and has directed field research on both terrestrial and underwater archaeological sites
across the country, including inundated prehistoric sites, World War II shipwrecks, and
deepwater shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico. He is currently serving on the Board of
Directors for the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology.

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