James Bard

Background

About James Bard

Dr. Bard is Principal of ANCIENT ARTIFACT LLC. He is currently working part-time for HNTB as a Principal Planner - Cultural Resources in their Bellevue, WA office. Dr. Bard recently worked for TRC, Milwaukie, Oregon as a part-time Senior Project Archaeologist. Prior to TRC and HNTB, he served for two years as a Senior Consultant and Pacific Northwest Cultural Resources Lead at Cardno's Portland, Oregon office. He has 44 years of cultural resource management experience in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, California, Nevada and Arizona. His professional experience in the design and management of cultural resource elements of EAs, EIRs, and EISs for federal, state, and municipal agencies, private industry, and the military and scientific community. He has managed cultural resource investigations in compliance with NEPA, the National Historic Preservation Act, and a variety of other federal cultural resource regulations. He has a broad technical and geographical background in all aspects of cultural resource assessment and regulatory compliance. His specialties include program management, coordination of technical analyses, research design formulation, Section 106 compliance, Tribal consultation, and business development. Prior to joining Cardno in 2013, Dr. Bard served as a Sr. Principal Investigator for SWCA (2009-2013) and as the Senior Technologist - Cultural Resources for CH2M HILL (1993-2009). Dr. Bard held a 50 percent ownership and served as a Principal of Basin Research Associates, Inc. for more than 16 years. BASIN continues to serve clients throughout California and Nevada. Bard and a partner founded BASIN in 1977 while graduate students at U.C. Berkeley. He served as PI or Co-PI for cultural resource assessments associated with urban and rural land planning, the development of water, energy, and mineral resources, and urban development. His research interests include California, Great Basin, Pacific Northwest and Columbia Plateau archaeology and ethnology, scientific applications in archaeology (archaeometry), numismatic archaeology, lithic technology, prehistoric rock art, archaeological method and theory, cultural resource management and historical archaeology. Specialties: Cultural Resources Management, Project Management, Business Development, Numismatic Archaeology