ABSTRACT
The Cultural Resource Management (CRM) programme in the US Bureau of Land Management is defined generically in a fashion which addresses both the sociocultural and the cultural material aspects of human interaction and use of lands now under the jurisdiction of the agency. The inventory structure and the database which results from its implementation are designed to identify and address specific cultural resource sites within the context of regional models of culture dynamics. Ethnographic overviews designed to identify contemporary Native American use and traditional cultural significance of Bureau lands and resources have been conducted for many areas of the USA. Effective planning for resource management must incorporate a strategy for the application as well as the compilation of relevant data. Modelling of historic and prehistoric land-use patterns on Bureau lands has been facilitated by an increasing body of information on ethnographic and ethnohistoric significance and exploitation of resources.
