Meacham, Matthew Andy2023-07-262023-07-261998-03https://hdl.handle.net/1794/28588222 pagesCultural resources such as buildings or landscapes degrade, disintegrate, or disappear when the processes which created and sustained them are interrupted or discontinued. These processes may respond to interventions usually intended for artifacts. This hypothesis is tested by applying the Secretary of the Interior's Guidelines for the Treatment of Historic Properties to processes which have created and sustained a resource of accepted cultural significance: The Government Mineral Springs, in the Wind River and Columbia River watersheds. The preservation principles are examined, and processes described. Principles are then matched to appropriate processes. These applications demonstrate that culturally significant artifacts and contexts can be protected by using modifications of existing tools and methodologies to address those processes which created and sustain the artifacts and contexts.enCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USpreservation principlestreatment modalitiespreservation standardsThesis / Dissertation