Many people contributed to the preparation of the Cultural Resource Management Handbook. The Standards Committee of the New York Archaeological Council (NYAC) assumed the primary responsibility for seeing this manuscript through various drafts and revision to completion. Specifically, Mary Burns, Christopher Lindner, Linda Stone, and Nina Versaggi of the NYAC Standards Committee worked countless hours on these multiple drafts.

The Standards Committee is especially grateful to members of the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Bard College for writing the first draft of this Handbook. Under Christopher Lindner's direction, Aaron Kimple, Mark Knudson, and Kim Uyehara produced a manuscript that formed a basic outline for this publication. NYAC acknowledges their contribution with appreciation for their enthusiastic effort.

As the draft moved through various stages of revision and rewrite, several staff members at the Public Archaeology Facility at Binghamton University provided comments. In particular, NYAC appreciates the efforts of Christopher Hohman, Timothy Knapp, Laurie Miroff, and Sean Rafferty. Their comments helped produce a more "user-friendly" version of the Handbook. Maria Pezzuti of the Public Archaeology Facility designed the cover of the Handbook and NYAC thanks her for this important contribution.

The following agency personnel offered useful official and unofficial additions to the Handbook: Robert Ewing (NYSDEC), Douglas Mackey (OPRHP), and Florence Swartz (USDA, NRCS). NYAC thanks them for their comments, which added important details to this manuscript.
 
 
 
 
 

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