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DENNIS GALLEGOS
Principal
Gallegos@aol.com

EDUCATION
B.A., Anthropology, California State University, Northridge, 1974
B.S., Business, California State University, Northridge, 1973

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Mr. Gallegos has over 25 years experience as Project Manager/Principal Investigator for cultural resource studies within southern California for federal, state, and local compliance. These projects include constraint level evaluations, surveys, CEQA testing programs, evaluations for National Register status, Section 106 compliance, and data recovery programs. Mr. Gallegos is knowledgeable of federal legal requirements, as well as City, County, and CEQA requirements, having worked on over 500 projects. These projects include: record searches, literature reviews, surveys, test programs, and data recovery and monitoring programs.

Projects managed by Mr. Gallegos include: SR 905; Camp Pendleton Santa Margarita River Valley Inventory (5,000 acres); NAS Miramar inventory (sample inventory of 20,000 acres); an inventory for Coyote Canyon, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park; NCTD Sprinter Rail Line and Bike Trail; Viejas Village inventory and test; survey and testing for Carlsbad Ranch; constraint level study for Carrillo Ranch Specific Plan; Batiquitos Lagoon Enhancement project; and inventories for Subarea III (3,000 acres), Subarea IV (1,500 acres), and Subarea V (2,000 acres) for the City of San Diego. Data Recovery programs include: Windsong Shores; PacBell; Twin Oaks Valley Ranch; Batiquitos Ridge; Rodgers Ridge; Torrey Ranch; Calpine Otay sites; Kuebler Ranch; Legoland; Aguirre Adobe; McCool/Lohman; McCrink Ranch/Harbrecht property; Grand Pacific Resorts; and Carlsbad Municipal Golf Course. Grand Pacific Resorts. Mr. Gallegos’ experience in major cultural resource overviews includes: the Otay Mesa Management Plan for 30,000 acres on the U.S./Mexico border; BLM Kuchamaa inventory (30,000 acres SE San Diego County); San Dieguito River Valley Park overview of 80,000 acres; and overviews for the cities of Escondido, San Marcos, Encinitas, and for the San Diego, Otay, and San Luis Rey River Valleys. Recent projects include: the 2,000-acre Merriam Mountains project; the 1,000-acre Star Ranch project; and, the SDG&E Sunrise Powerlink project.

PUBLICATIONS

Southern California in Transition: Late Holocene Occupation of Southern San Diego County, California. In: Catalysts to Complexity: Late Holocene Societies of the California Coast, edited by Erlandson and Jones, Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003.

Management Plan for Otay Mesa Prehistoric Resources, San Diego, California. Authors: D. Gallegos, A. Schroth, and C. Kyle. Coyote Press, Salinas, California, Agency Reports, 1998.

Five Thousand Years of Maritime Subsistence at Ballast Point Prehistoric Site SDi 48 (W 164), San Diego, California. (with Carolyn Kyle). Coyote Press, Salinas, California, No. 40, 1998.

Environmental Change and Coastal Adaptations in San Diego County (with Patricia Masters, Ph.D.). In: Archaeology of the California Coast During the Middle Holocene, University of California, Los Angeles, California, Vol. 4, 1997.

A Review and Synthesis of the Archaeological Record for the Lower San Diego River Valley. Society for California Archaeology, San Diego, California, Volume 8, 1995.

Patterns and Implications of Coastal Settlement in San Diego County: 9000 to 1300 Years Ago. In: Essays on the Prehistory of Maritime California. Center for Archaeological Research at Davis, No. 10, 1992.

Antiquity and Adaptation at Agua Hedionda, Carlsbad, California. In: Hunter-Gatherers of Early Holocene Coastal California, Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991.

A Review and Synthesis of Environmental and Cultural Material for the Batiquitos Lagoon Region. In: San Dieguito - La Jolla, Chronology and Controversy, San Diego County Archaeological Society, Research Paper, Number 1, 1987.

Relocation of the Ballast Point Tryworks Oven Foundation (with Adella Schroth). In Fort Guijarros Quarterly, 3:2,1989.

Early Man and a Cultural Chronology for Batiquitos Lagoon. In: Casual Papers, Cultural Resource Management Center, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University, 1986.

Batiquitos Lagoon Revisited. In: Casual Papers, Cultural Resource Management Center,Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University, 1985.

Class II Cultural Resource Inventory, East Mesa and West Mesa Region, Imperial Valley, California, (with others). USDI, BLM, 1980.

Cultural Resource Inventory of the Central Mojave and Colorado Desert Regions, (with others). USDI, BLM, Cultural Resources Publications, Archaeology, 1980.

AWARDS

Award of Excellence for Historic Preservation, City of San Diego Historical Resources Board, 2004

Certificate of Merit, Association of Environmental Planners, 2002

Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Historic Preservation, Leo Carrillo Ranch Master Plan, California Preservation Foundation, 1998

Special Achievement Award, presented by the Bureau of Land Management, California
Desert Planning Staff, 1977