Who
We Are
Legacy 106, Inc., is a San Diego, California, based archaeology and
historic preservation consulting firm established in 2000. We offer
a wide range of environmental services to private and governmental
agencies. Legacy 106, Inc. offers a professional staff with thirty-five
years experience in local, state, and federal government with expertise
in historic and prehistoric archaeology, historic research in southern
California, and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) project
processing. This includes review of environmental land use issues
such as environmental initial studies, environmental impact reports,
archaeology and historic impact mitigation. Legacy 106, Inc. has conducted
studies in San Diego, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties concerning
historic and archaeological resources. Legacy 106, Inc. has also conducted
studies for processing National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review
and compliance and National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) Section
106 effect studies and prepared National Register nominations and
Historic American Building Survey (HABS) mitigation documentation.
Legacy 106, Inc. is listed on the County of San Diego Environmental
Consultants List, City/County/Port District Small Companies Consultant's
List, and the City of San Diego's Historic Resources Board's Consultant's
List. Legacy 106, Inc. has a staff registered professional archaeologist.
- Professional
Staff with 35
Years Experience
- Experienced
in Historic & Prehistoric Archaeology
- California
Historic and Historic Preservation Research
- CEQA
Project Processing and NEPA Research
- Familiar
with Environmental Land Use Issues Research
- Completed
research for many Historic Building Designations
Our
Researchers
Ronald
V. May, RPA
President/ Principal Investigator
Ronald
V. May, RPA is President and co-founder of Legacy 106 Inc. During
the past 35 years, Ronald V. May, RPA has been involved in a broad
spectrum of historic, archaeological, and general environmental studies
in California and northern Baja California, Mexico. This experience
includes two years as staff with the Department of Anthropology, San
Diego State University; three years part-time as District Liaison
Archaeologist with California Division of Highways; two years part-time
as Senior Archaeologist with David D. Smith & Associates; several
short-term historic and archaeology studies with the United States
Army Corps of Engineers, United States Department of Agriculture,
State of California Department of Parks and Recreation; 24 years as
Environmental Management Specialist, County of San Diego, general
environmental and staff archaeologist/ historian, and manager of the
National Park Service, Certified Local Government, County Historic
Sites Board; twenty months with the United States Navy as Environmental
Protection Specialist, as manager of natural-cultural, Environmental
Office, Naval Submarine Base (1998-1999) and staff architectural historian
for Naval Base Point Loma (1999-2000); President of Legacy 106, Inc.
since 2000. He is author of over 50 publications on history, historic
and prehistoric archaeology, government policy, and Spanish historic
ceramics and has been awarded Knight's Officer, Orden del Civil Merito,
by the government of Spain for discovery of an 18th century Spanish
cannon battery in San Diego.
Dale
Ballou May
Vice President/ Principal Researcher
Dale
Ballou May is Vice President and co-founder of Legacy 106, Inc. since
2000 and has over 20 years experience in historic research, graphics,
and administrative work. She has worked in all capacities as business
manager, board member, editor and report production specialist, and
educational program planner for the Fort Guijarros Museum Foundation
in San Diego. She is author of an article on Hollywood movie star
Leo Carrillo in the Journal of San Diego History. She has co-authored
and edited all reports prepared by Legacy 106, Inc. She served as
Administrative Coordinator to the Department of History, San Diego
State University before supervising Emerald Press for Emerald Publications
and is now Vice President and Principal Researcher with Legacy 106,
Inc.
Richard
Means Gadler
Principal Researcher
Richard
Means Gadler is a Principal Researcher with Legacy 106, Inc. and has
34 years experience in historic and prehistoric archaeology, historic
research, general environmental review, and is a credentialed secondary
school teacher. He has double Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University
of San Diego in history and business. He worked in the field excavations
at Mission San Diego, La Paz in western Arizona, and the La Fleur
Site in San Diego County and has authored numerous California Environmental
Quality Act documents for the County of San Diego. He served the County
of San Diego in the Environmental Management series as staff archaeologist
before working as a planner for the Cajon Valley School District and
then a substitute teacher in numerous districts around the San Diego
region. He is an expert in 18th century weaponry and has lectured
on Kentucky Rifles to various civic organizations. He has served Legacy
106 Inc. in researching historic buildings and conducting historic
artifact analysis since 2002.
