California Archaeological Site Stewardship Program (CASSP): Volunteer training workshop organization and handbook.
CASSP trains and supports volunteers who regularly visit sites in California and report on their conditions to the archaeologists at the land management agencies reponsible for those sites. Each volunteer takes a two-day training workshop provided by CASSP. We customize the training notebook for each workshop. Here is the 89-page notebook from the training workshop held on April 29, 2017, for the Northern Buttes District of California State Parks. Download the PDF (7.6MB).
An article about CASSP workshops appears on the website of the Archaeological Institute of America at https://www.archaeological.org/public-partnership-in-site-preservation-the-california-archaeological-site-stewardship-program/Preservation of archaeological sites at Clear Lake, California.
Archaeological research conducted since the 1970s indicates that areas around Clear Lake, California, contain some of the oldest, continuously occupied sites in North America. These two videos tell about those resources and how they are being preserved. Each video appears courtesy of The Koi Nation. They were created at the Advanced Laboratory for Visual Anthropology, California State University, Chico .
A Walk Through Time: The Story of Anderson Marsh. Produced in 2015; 28 minutes. View the streaming video at https://www.pbs.org/video/kvie-viewfinder-walk-through-time/
Saving the Sacred. Produced in 2019; 28 minutes. View the streaming video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hqzqxHovXI