Offices in Logan, UT, Boise, ID, and Missoula, MT

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Multidisciplinary solutions for cultural resource compliance

Cannon Heritage Consultants, Inc. (CHC) is a cultural resource consulting firm headquartered in Logan, Utah, with additional branch offices conveniently located in Boise, Idaho and Missoula, Montana. Our firm provides over 100 years of cumulative professional experience in cultural resource management in the western United States. Our office locations allow us to act quickly and efficiently in serving the cultural resource needs of our clients. Dr. Kenneth Cannon, Director, brings over 25 years of experience in the lntermountain West to CHC where he has developed a reputation for providing quality archaeological services, and meeting schedule and budget commitments.

The company specializes in the documentation, testing and evaluation of archaeological and historic resources in accordance with state and federal regulations including Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and its applicable guidelines (36 CFR 800). Other services include Native American Tribal Consultation, NAGRPA, Geographic Information Science (GIScience), remote sensing, geophysical survey, historic preservation and architecture,HABS/HAER documentation, management plans, ethnographic overviews, NAGPRA consultation, and bioarchaeology.

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“Ken Cannon and his Cannon Heritage Consultants, Inc., have provided invaluable cultural resources help to us in numerous projects ranging from surface disturbing improvements for pipelines and fences to federal land exchanges, including the writing, achieving concurrence for, and implementing of a historic properties treatment plan. Their work is highly respected among agency peers and the State Historic Preservation Office.”

Christopher F. Robinson CEO, The Ensign Group
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We have contracted Cannon Heritage Consultants to complete the cultural resources portion of NEPA reviews addressing grazing, winter recreation, and energy development over the past several years and found their support to be technically sound, timely, and cost effective. They are a great resource and a pleasure to work with.

— Neal Artz and Scott EvansCirrus Ecological Solutions, LC
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I never hesitate to call upon the services of Ken and his staff. They are able to mobilize extremely quickly in order to meet very stringent turn-around times, and they provide ongoing communication throughout the duration of every project. From a quality perspective, they are detail-oriented and consistently go above and beyond minimum criteria, ensuring that regulatory compliance is met. Cannon Heritage Consultants has been a highly effective partner for us and we will continue to use them in the future.

— Valerie BeldingProject Scientist, Trileaf
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Lower Valley Energy has used Cannon Heritage on several projects the last few years and each one had its own set of challenges and deadlines. We found Ken and his staff very efficient and professional and met the deadlines that we had asked for along with the Federal Agencies. The respect that Ken has for the agencies is invaluable in getting a project approved and completed on time.

Rick KnoriLower Valley Energy

 Services We Provide

Cannon Heritage provides a full range of services

Archaeological Surveys

CHC’s archaeologists have extensive experience in the conduct of archaeological survey, site inventory, and …

Archaeological Surveys

Data Recovery

Data Recovery is implemented when archaeological sites cannot be protected from development or …

Data Recovery

Geophysics and Remote Sensing

CHC is able to offer geophysical prospecting through the use of three instruments.  A Fluxgate Gradiometer is used to provide magnetometer survey.

Geophysics and Remote Sensing

Geoarchaeology

Geoarchaeology is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the physical and cultural processes that affect the preservation of archaeological sites.

Geoarchaeology
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News & Projects

Projects
July 8, 2022

Wendover Airport Data Recovery (26EK16689)

Currently, Cannon Heritage is conducting excavation and data recovery efforts at site 26EK16689 in Elko County, Nevada near the city of West Wendover. So far, CHC has excavated over 100…

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January 12, 2018

Dugway Proving Ground, Utah

Cannon Heritage is finishing the last of a five-year surface inventory for the US Army Dugway Proving Grounds. CHC documented hundreds of sites and thousands of artifacts spanning over 10,000...
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March 21, 2017

Snowbird Gad Valley Management Plan, Utah County, Utah

The Snowbird Ski Resort is undergoing a new management plan to update and expand existing facilities. CHC was contracted by Cirrus Ecological Solutions to conduct the cultural resource management portion for...
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Meet Our Team

Cannon Heritage Consultants is a full-service cultural resource management firm headquartered in Logan, Utah with branch locations in Boise, Idaho and Missoula, Montana.

Kenneth P. Cannon (PhD, RPA)

President, co-owner, Project Manager, Principle Investigator

Dr. Cannon is President, and co-owner of CHC and serves as Project Manager and Principal Investigator for all CHC projects. He received his PhD in geography from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he used GIS and stable isotope analyses to understand the biogeography of prehistoric bison in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Ken brings over 25 years of experience in the lntermountain West through his tenure with the National Park Service and for a private cultural resource management firm. Ken also served as interim cultural resource manager at the Valles Caldera, New Mexico for a six-month period in 2003. He has supervised a number of projects in Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, as well as elsewhere in the United States, ranging from small scale surveys to large data recovery and salvage projects. Ken is permitted in several western states. He is a member of the Idaho Professional Archaeological Council, Utah Professional Archaeological Council and Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologists. He was the founding President of the Rocky Mountain Anthropological Association (2007-2013), has served as Councilor for Archaeology for the American Quaternary Association, and Vice President for Government Affairs and Research for Utah Professional Archaeological Council. He is currently the Newsletter Editor for the Utah Professional Archaeological Council. He is also a frequent reviewer for the University of Utah Press and serves on the research board for the Hudson-­Meng site, Nebraska. Ken has published widely on his work in archaeological and interdisciplinary journals. He has also received numerous grants for his research.

Ethan P. Ryan (PhD, RPA)

Senior Project Manager and Director of Archaeological Geophysics (Missoula Office)

Ethan Ryan is an Archaeologist and Project Manager for Cannon Heritage Consultants, Inc. In addition to being a Project Manager, Ethan specializes in GIS, sUAS (drones), and geophysics. He received is MA in Anthropology-Cultural Heritage at the University of Montana where he used GIS and lithic data to identify changes over time in formation processes and in the spatial organization of hunter-gatherer-fisher people in housepits in the Middle Fraser Valley, British Columbia. Ethan completed his PhD at the University of Montana where his dissertation research combined collections research, obsidian source analyses and stable isotope analyses to better understand social networks and cooperative hunting strategies in northwest Wyoming. Previously, Ethan was an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Montana, Department of Anthropology teaching GIS in Archaeology (course no. ANTY 452) to undergraduate and graduate students. Ethan brings almost a decade of experience in the Rocky Mountains and Northwest Plains through his tenure with the Bureau of Land Management (Worland, WY FO), the University of Montana, the Chippewa-Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy’s Reservation, and in the private cultural resource management industry with Cannon Heritage Consultants. Ethan has been a team member in numerous projects in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Alaska in addition to British Columbia. He is a member of the Society for American Archaeology, the Society for Historic Archaeology, and is listed on the Register of Professional Archaeologists (Member No. 18001).

Paul Santarone (MS, ABD)

Senior Project Manager (Boise Office)

Paul earned his Master of Science degree in 2007 from Idaho State University and is currently pursuing his PhD with the University of Wyoming. Paul has been working in archaeology for over nine years, with the majority of his experience obtained in Idaho. Paul is on the Idaho State Historic Preservation Office list of Qualified Archaeological Consultants. He has experience directing all levels of cultural resource management operations from pre-field and archival research to mitigation and data-recovery excavation.
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