Prehistoric Game Drives in the Nevada Great Basin by Cliff Shaw

This month’s speaker, one of our club’s Founding Members, is Cliff Shaw who describes his research on Prehistoric Game Drives in the Nevada Great Basin.
Cliff, a retired U. S. Forest Service forester, has logged over three thousand hours as an archeological volunteer for the U. S. Forest Service from 2001 until 2015 on the Bridgeport Ranger District, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. In that time, he recorded and interpreted numerous gigantic rock-walled sites spread out over the million acres of his Ranger District. Cliff describes the sites and current interpretations of their ages, cultural affiliations, and probable purposes for nomadic hunting and gathering bands.
He has authored a number of self-published books about the history of Aurora, Nevada, a Civil War-era mining town turned ghost town where Mark Twain started his writing career. Much of Cliff’s historical research and a number of his archaeological discoveries have been incorporated in seven master’s theses, one doctoral dissertation, and numerous published academic journal articles. Cliff lives in the mountains of north Georgia where he spends much of his time exploring the Chattahoochee National Forest. He has a new book on Old Growth Forests based on his rambles therein.

[@peterwaksman9179]

Maybe the walls did not need to be too tall to stop a jumping animal, just tall enough to discourage it.

[@robhead22]

Thank you!

[@SolaceEasy]

A visit to Table Mountain in Sonoran Desert National Monument might be in order. On the trail near the summit plateau there is an impressive game corralling structure. Go with friends as this is a migrant corridor.

[@markharris2912]

It would take a hell of a dry stacked stone wall to contain big horn sheep