About

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Selected CLIENTS :

Montana Department of Transportation
City of Kalispell; City of Missoula
HDR
Great West Engineering
Trout Unlimited
WESTECH Environmental Services, Inc.

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Physical Address:
170 S. 2nd St., Suite C
Hamilton, MT 59840

Mailing Address:
PO Box 745
Victor, MT 59875


Cell Phone: 406-360-1060

Email: bherbel@rbasmontana.com

Duns No. – 080132659; Cage Code - 7K9U1; NAICS Codes – 541620, 541720, 541690, 541990, 541712, 712120; PSC Codes – F999, B503, R499


Established in 2016, Rabbitbrush Archaeological Services, LLC (RBAS) is suited to serve cultural resource needs in the intermountain west, the plains, and the pacific northwest. Following a tenure with larger cultural resource management firms, senior archaeologist and owner Brian Herbel created RBAS in order to better serve a regional cultural resources need. RBAS strives to offer cost effective, flexible, and efficient services related to archaeological investigations, environmental assessment cultural resources studies, and historic studies involving both archaeological and architectural resources. Brian has held Archaeological Resources Protection Act (APRA) permits on the Caribou-Targhee, Custer-Gallatin, Flathead, Kootenai, Lolo, and Sawtooth National Forests as well with the Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Bureau of Land Management field offices in Idaho, Montana/Dakotas, and Wyoming.  Brian’s experience includes all measure of cultural resource management from large-scale linear gas pipelines, transmission lines, transportation projects, and large block surveys, to smaller scale local projects, data recovery excavation, site-specific needs, and general consultation. 


Specific services include:

·        Archaeological Investigations – Context Statements/Literature Review, Site Recordation/Evaluation, Linear/Block Survey, Excavation, Data Recovery/Mitigation, Artifact Processing/Curation

·        Compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, National Environmental Policy Act, as well as relevant State and Local policies and ordinances

·        Historic Research (Chain of Title, Ancestry, Historic Context Development)

·        National Register of Historic Places Evaluations, Recommendations, and Nominations

·        Documentary and Fine Art Photography Services

CV available upon request.