Paleontological mitigation and careers in Environmental Resource Management

Chronicle Heritage (Chronicle) is the largest cultural resource-only firm in the United States. Chronicle’s success is the result of a unique vision to professionalize the cultural resource management industry through solution-oriented consulting. We are passionate about empowering staff and hiring the best available talent via organic growth or acquisitions. PaleoWest, LLC and Commonwealth Heritage Group, LLC joined forces in 2022 to form Chronicle Heritage. Unified with a shared mission to preserve the past while supporting progress that creates a better present and future, we now have 37 offices across the continental United States in every key geography. We are also quickly expanding into international markets, offering a unique solution to clients facing compliance or preservation challenges abroad. Our environmental resource services cover all aspects of the discipline, including archaeology, architectural history, cultural landscape analysis, maritime archaeology, ethnography, paleontology, preservation planning, and public outreach.

With a combined 70 years of experience, Chronicle Heritage’s senior paleontology team has a successful track record of providing high-quality paleontological resource management services for a wide variety of projects of federally managed lands. We have successfully completed hundreds of paleontological resource investigations through the western U.S. Chronicle Heritage’s comprehensive paleontology program offers a full range of services including museum records searches and literature reviews, field surveys and assessments, construction monitoring, fossil collection, data recover, laboratory preparation and technical analyses, museum curation, and technical reporting. Our paleontology team is currently conducting field work throughout the western United States working on projects such as large scale transmission lines, solar array developments, wind energy facilities, oil and gas infrastructure, mining activities, and roadway construction.

For more information about Madeline and her Career pathway, see her Linkedin page:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/madeline-weigner-14117171/ .