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and evaluate the archeological and paleontological resources that will 

 be affected by the many Federal water-control projects planned or 

 under construction by the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of 

 the Interior, and the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army ; 

 to transmit this information to the National Park Service ; and to 

 recommend, where necessary, the procedures needed for recovery of 

 as much as possible of the scientific information which would other- 

 wise be lost. As excavation at key sites supersedes the survey and 

 test digging which alone have so far been possible, it will be the Smith- 

 sonian's responsibility to direct the Federal phases of this work as well. 



Funds to support the operations thus far have come from the 

 Bureau of Reclamation through the National Park Service to the 

 Smithsonian. For the most part, they have been for survey only. 

 During fiscal year 1948, limited excavation funds were made available 

 for work at Angostura, S. Dak., Boysen, Wyo., and Heart Butte, 

 N. Dak. ; of these units, only Boysen was visited for limited excava- 

 tions during the calendar year 1947. 



In the Missouri Basin, as elsewhere, American archeology will 

 long be indebted to the governmental agencies whose efiforts and 

 financial support are making possible the salvage operations. Through 

 the enlightened conservation policy and excellent cooperation of the 

 National Park Service and the Bureau of Reclamation, what 

 threatened to be a program of wholesale destruction of scientific re- 

 sources in the Basin promises, if properly carried through, to be- 

 come one of the most comprehensive archeological and paleontological 

 research projects ever undertaken in this region. 



It is a pleasure to note here that throughout 1947 the relationships 

 of the Missouri River Basin Survey with other agencies have re- 

 mained, on the whole, cordial and pleasant. Close contact has been 

 maintained at all times with the Missouri River Basin Recreation 

 Survey, Region 2, National Park Service, in which ofBce Chief Rec- 

 reation Planner Guy D. Edwards and Archeologist J. D. Jennings 

 have been particularly helpful. The Bureau of Reclamation, besides 

 financing the work, has freely furnished maps, construction schedules, 

 and other materials and information, as requested. The Corps of 

 Engineers has likewise been generous in providing topographic maps 

 and other information ; in the Omaha District office T. E. Huddleston 

 has been very helpful in the archeological interpretation of aerial 

 photographs of the upper Missouri Valley. Local and regional repre- 

 sentatives of all these agencies, project engineers, and others have 

 been uniformly cooperative. The same may be said in regard to State 

 and other non-Federal agencies, as well as of numerous private indi- 



