Cultural & Environmental Systems is located in Tucson’s historic Armory Park Neighborhood and National Register District with over 2500 square feet of office space, laboratory, and storage space for collections and equipment. The firm is located in the former residences of Perfecto Elias, one of Tucson’s pioneers.

The company owed facilities include an in-house library of selected professional journals, reference books and manuscripts pertaining to law, historic preservation, ecology, data bank management, architecture, ethnographic studies, remote sensing, mining, historic artifacts and structures, soils and geology.

The firm maintains a map collection of USGS topographic maps (7.5 and 15 Minute Series) for Arizona, New Mexico and California; selected historic General Land Office (GLO) maps for Arizona and New Mexico; aerial photographs,selected homestead plats and historic Tucson City maps.

The firm’s space is divided between office and lab facilties. The lab has a, wet lab, clean lab for artifact processing, cataloging and analysis; work stations for drafting and photography, and secure storage areas for collections. Young Alarm, Inc, (Tucson) monitors the office and laboratory space for security and fire protection with a state-of-the-art cellular system.

Computers, desktop and laptops are linked to laser printers for efficient access during analysis and report production. QuickBooks and Microsoft Office programs are used for project planning and scheduling bookkeeping payroll, project tracking, and job budgets). E-mail and facsimile (FAX) capabilities are available in-house for immediate communications with clients and agencies. In-house duplication is available for small reports, analysis sheets and field forms.

Company policy dictates that artifacts and project records be curated with regional institutions. Curation agreements are held with the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson and the Museum of New Mexico Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe New Mexico for specific projects. On an interim basis C& E S, Inc. can curate project specific materials.

Sufficient field equipment is owned by the firm to outfit 20 employees. A variety of field equipment is available for projects including 4-wheel drive vehicles, FM headsets and transceivers, hand tools, digital cameras and 35 mm cameras and lenses.  To aid in mapping and locating resources Global Positioning  System (GPS) units, Brunton compasses with tripods and legs; transit, alidade and plane-table; rods (English and metric) are available  in-house. The laboratory is equipped with electronic scales, binocular microscopes, digital calipers, flotation and geological sieve screens; acid bath facilities, drying racks and tables for laboratory processing and analysis. In addition, a variety of hand tools, equipment for reconstruction and stabilization are available.

Land Use Permits

Current and completed C&E S projects have required a variety of federal, state, and tribal land use permits with different processes and the necessity for the firm to establish adequate repository arrangements at approved institutions. C&ES currently holds the following permits:

Ø  Arizona State Museum (Arizona Antiquities Permit) to conduct non-collection archaeological and paleontological surveys in Arizona. The current permit (2011-62BL) is effective through December 31, 2012 and is renewed yearly. The firm also holds a repository agreement with the ASM.

Ø  Bureau of Land Management-Blanket Permit (Cultural Resource Permit No AZ-000484)

 to conduct non-collection survey on Bureau of Land Management lands in Arizona. The permit is effective through August of 2014, at which time it will be renewed.

CES has held federal Antiquities Permits for project specific research involving survey, phased testing/ data recovery and monitoring with the USDA Forest Service, the Navajo Nation and Bureau of Indian Affairs-Window Rock; ARPA survey and testing permits for the Navajo, San Carlos Apache and Tohono O’odham (San Xavier District) Nations; and survey, and phased testing and data recovery permits with the Bureau of Land Management.