More likely, once significant sites have been identified, they can be avoided or excavated to extract the relevant cultural data before construction is allowed to proceed. While the site is effectively protected, it is available, with landowner consent, for research-oriented excavations should the need arise and proper funding be available. All identified sites, whether determined to lack significance, avoided and conserved in place, or excavated prior to the proposed development are listed on the Vermont Archaeological Inventory maintained by the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation. That way even land of no great cultural significance is labeled and filed for the future. He peppers long passages of slow, measured prose with occasional down-country witticisms and a casual Vermont twang, whether by nature or for calculated effect is debatable.
Artwork featuring the original impossible dream chaser graces the company's cramped conference room.
That sounds like environmentalism to me. His parents worked in the agricultural and scientific fields. His mother was a scientist and the first woman to use an electron microscope in the anatomy and physiology department at the University of Vermont. He landscaped for several years, then sold his share in that business, which evolved into SiteWorks Inc., and returned to college at age 30. In 1983 he graduated from the University of Connecticut with a master's in anthropology focused on Northeastern American archaeology.