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Cultural Resources at INL

INL's Cultural Resource Management Plan

The Department of Energy (DOE) recognizes the importance of cultural resources to its stakeholders and of preserving those resources for present and future generations. DOE is also committed to compliance with legal mandates that require consideration of cultural resources. This section of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Cultural Resource Management Plan (CRMP) outlines DOE’s commitment to and basic philosophy of cultural resource management at INL.

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Landscape of the Three Buttes
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Featured Stories

The original Site history: Stories from, relationships with the Shoshone-Bannock people

Editor’s note: This story is partially adapted from a Tribal historical write-up titled “The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes.” One story about the land where the Idaho National Laboratory Site now sits begins...

Unraveling a mammoth-sized mystery

An INL archeologist, is the corresponding author on a new article about Owl Cave for American Antiquity for the Society for American Archaeology....

Unique obsidian geochemical signatures provide a scientific lens to the past

INL archaeologists are obsidian originating in southeast Idaho to provide clues about Native American travel and trade routes over the past 13,000 years....
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Daughter of World War II airman killed in training accident visits Idaho crash site

August 19, 2024

In late June, Roberta Armstrong came as close as she would ever get to her father, Lt. Robert W. Madsen, a U.S. Army Air Corps member who died in a World War II training accident on the Idaho desert.

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What if? Woman who lost father in WWII bomber crash at INL reflects on his life

July 24, 2024

Roberta Armstrong has had a good life but still wonders from time to time how it would have been different had her father lived. 

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Uncovering the hidden pieces of Idaho National Laboratory’s history

November 13, 2023

IDAHO FALLS — Idaho National Laboratory has a long and rich history, dating back to its founding in 1949 as the National Reactor Testing Station. Over the years, the lab has played a major role in the development of nuclear energy and other technologies. 

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INL Archaeologist Suzann Henrikson Is Searching For The First People In Idaho

June 20, 2019

Archaeologist Lael Suzann Henrikson operates out of the Cultural Resource Management Office of Idaho National Laboratory where she works to insure the labs are in compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act.

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INL, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes examine remnants of long-gone Lake Terreton

May 16, 2019

May is Idaho Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month, a time for Henrikson and her colleagues to share with the public the work they do on the lab’s 890 square miles. 

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Archaeology Day gives INL archaeologists unique chance for outreach

May 12, 2019

Archaeology Day was the result of a joint effort between the Museum of Idaho and the Idaho National Laboratory. The event also commemorated Idaho Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month.

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Feature Videos

Connecting the Past to the Present through Archaeology

Bomber crash site discovery at Idaho National Laboratory 

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Cultural History at Idaho National Laboratory

Cultural History at Idaho National Laboratory

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WWII History at Idaho National Laboratory

WWII History at Idaho National Laboratory

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3-D modeling used to re-create the Reno Homestead

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INL archaeologists work to preserve WWII B-24 Liberator crash site

Human history on the INL Site spans at least 13,000 years, from prehistoric hunter-gatherers to nuclear-energy researchers.

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