Garret Root Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Wa, Us

West Region

In my current role I serve as an organizational leader of architectural historians across our West Region (9 states). I directly supervise three staff and act as the leader for business development across the region. In addition to organizational leadership and business development, I serve in a technical subject matter expert role for all of our FERC hydroelectric projects for cultural resources.

Northern California

Northern California

Northern California

Sacramento, California Area

I meet the Secretary of the Interior Professional Qualification Standards as a Historian and Architectural Historian and have served in that capacity since 2011. I have worked on hundreds of projects which, range in complexity from simple, single resource determination of eligibility to developing Memorandum of Agreements and implementing mitigation where Projects will affect historic resources. Additionally, I have extensive business development skills as I am the primary point of contact for all historic built environment pursuits. I have served as project and task manager leading the collective effort of the broader cultural resources team. In my current role as Senior Architectural Historian, I work with a team of talented architectural historians and archaeologists. I serve as supervisor to our architectural history team which serves clients across the Western United States. I work a diverse group of clients including private electrical utilities, local and regional water agencies, local municipalities, private developers, in addition to Federal and State agencies such as the Bureau of Reclamation, Army Corps of Engineers, General Services Administration, Federal Energy Regulatory Agency, Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service and state agencies including Caltrans, High Speed Rail Authority, and the California Office of Historic Preservation.

550 Hartnell Street, Suite C Monterey, Ca 93940

I have worked on a multitude of documentation projects, including those under Sections 106 and 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and several local preservation ordinances. Additionally, I have evaluated hundreds of historic properties for potential inclusion to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), California Register of Historical resources (CRHR), and local preservation ordinances. Working on these projects has given me extensive knowledge of project development, including methodology and Area of Potential Effects (APE) development, research, intensive survey, field recordation and management, report documentation, and agency review. Additionally, I have experience leading a team, budgeting projects, proposal writing, project interviews, scope and cost analysis, and client interaction. Past professional experience in archives and research coupled with educational training enables me to identify key research themes and establish effective, cost efficient baselines for evaluation. In addition to my research ability, I have extensive knowledge in a variety of contexts, including utilities, hydroelectric relicensing, urban, rural, military, agricultural, and infrastructural settings. I add technical skill, efficiency, and strong regional knowledge to all of his projects and documentation efforts. Mr. Root has worked with a variety of clients including Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE), and San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), Department of Energy, United States Forrest Service, United States Navy, United States Air Force, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), California High Speed Rail Authority, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), Alameda County Transit (AC Transit), University of California, and multiple county agencies.

Sacramento, California Area

At Cardno, I have been responsible for a wide variety of tasks ranging from research and fieldwork, completing historic resource reports, developing historic contexts, interacting with clients, and developing scope of work and budgets. While at Cardno my work has focused primarily on the utility sector working extensively with Pacific Gas and Electric Company and Southern California Edison. Work has included the Bucks Creek Hydroelectric Relicensing effort in which, I aided in the historic context development and National Register of Historic Places evaluation of the historic district. In addition to this project, I have worked on a litany of smaller projects including substations, transmission lines, and industrial buildings. For Southern California Edison I worked on the Big Creek Hydroelectric System Historic District, evaluating the transmission and substation facilities has contributors to the National Register nomination. Subsequently I helped develop the Facilities Maintenance and Repair Plan for the district. In addition to utilities, I have worked an a multitude clients including private developers, real estate agents, Sacramento County, and other federal agencies such as the Forrest Service.

I have conducted research at national, state, municipal, and private repositories across California and Nevada. I have photographed, described, and evaluated hundreds of historic resources under the NRHP, CRHR, and historic resources from the purposes of CEQA. I have worked on HABS/HAER, HRER, DPR-523, and National Register Nominations. Conducted and transcribed multiple oral interviews. I have done data entry and assisted in the management of large databases. I can effectively use ArcGis software for designing maps and displaying information.I wrote, designed, edited "From Sawdust to Uranium: The History of Electrical Power Generation in Humboldt County and Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Humboldt Bay Power Plant 1883-2019" published in 2013. I helped design, write, and curate a museum exhibit that accompanied the release of the above said book.

Master'S Degree, Public/Applied History

Public History

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha ThetaExcellence in Historical Writing, 2009. Published article in the Butte County Historical Society.