ERAGSDALE@HRASSOC.COM

CRM DIVISION MANAGER / PRINCIPAL ARCHAEOLOGIST – PORTLAND OFFICE

Emily K. Ragsdale leads HRA’s Cultural Resources Management (CRM) division and is responsible for strategic and financial operations of the division, staff development and supervision, and project implementation. She acts as project manager, principal investigator, and/or quality control and technical editor on a wide variety of projects, from small municipal developments to complex, multiyear federal undertakings. Emily has extensive experience working on energy sector projects subject to state and federal laws and regulations, including transmission, hydroelectric, natural gas, and wind. Since joining HRA in 2006, Emily has worked in nearly every level of HRA’s corporate hierarchy, starting as an archaeological field technician and working her way up as a Research, Project, Senior, and now Principal Archaeologist; this experience gives her a unique perspective into understanding and successfully executing HRA’s broad range of technical expertise. Her cultural resources credentials includes completing precontact and historic-period archaeological research, survey, evaluation, and data recovery; archaeological monitoring, monitoring plans, and inadvertent discovery plans; government agency and tribal communications and coordination; National Register of Historic Places eligibility evaluations and project effects recommendations; compliance documents such as Historic Properties Management Plans, memorandums of agreements, and treatment plans; GIS data management; and more. Over the last two decades, Emily has authored, prepared, and/or edited several hundred cultural resources reports and documents. In the last few years, she has also been pursuing intensive training in human osteology in order to support HRA in identification and protection of potential inadvertent discoveries during field projects.

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