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PAL has extensive experience in dealing with cultural resource management issues for
historic cemeteries. Among the cemetery services that PAL offers are
cemetery delineation, survey, and relocation. We have assisted numerous
private and public clients with delineation of historical cemeteries in
compliance with provisions of state burial laws and municipal ordinances.
The purpose of these projects is to find limits to the cemeteries which can
serve as boundaries for preservation or protective easements. The methods
for the delineations have included use of systematic ground-penetrating
radar survey and machine-assisted trenching to observe and record patterns
of exposed grave shafts. Our approach to the survey of historic cemeteries
is to view them as complex landscapes that often embody the intersection of
material culture, wildlife, plants, and topography. PAL has also performed
several cemetery relocation projects that have resulted in the removal of
remains from areas threatened by project development and their re-interment
in protected cemeteries.