Submerged Cultural Resources Assessment: Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and Point Reyes National Seashore

This monograph by James Delgado and Stephen Haller is the first assessment level document in the submerged cultural resources series of publications produced by the National Park Service. It should prove to be a useful working model for land managing agencies on a Federal or State level that wish to generate straight forward statements on what is known about a particular resource base without intensive study and what options exist for exerting responsible stewardship over those resources.
It is the second report of the series that was conducted through the cooperation of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and the National Park Service. Subsuming under one cover the submerged cultural resource management concern of two different types of Federal marine protected areas in the same region is a good practice both in a scholarly and an economical sense. Shipwrecks from certain portions of Point Reyes National Seashore were intentionally not covered in this report because they are addressed elsewhere in the series, specifically in Number 1 edited by Larry Murphy. Delgado and Haller know their subject matter well and the reader will soon discover that besides an obvious competence the authors also bring an infectious enthusiasm to their writing.

詹姆斯·德尔加多（James Delgado）与斯蒂芬·哈勒（Stephen Haller）合著的这份专题报告，是美国国家公园管理局（National Park Service）出品的水下文化资源（submerged cultural resources）系列出版物中的首份评估类文件。该报告可为联邦或州级土地管理机构提供实用的工作范本：此类机构无需开展深入研究，即可清晰阐明某一特定资源基底的已知情况，以及对这些资源实施负责任管护的可行路径。
本报告是该系列的第二份成果，由美国国家海洋和大气管理局（National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration）与美国国家公园管理局合作完成。将同一区域内两类不同联邦海洋保护区的水下文化资源管理议题整合进单份报告中，无论从学术严谨性还是经济性价比角度而言，均为极佳的实践方案。雷耶斯角国家海岸（Point Reyes National Seashore）部分区域的沉船遗存未被纳入本报告，因相关内容已在本系列第1号报告（由拉里·墨菲（Larry Murphy）编撰）中有所阐述。德尔加多与哈勒对研究主题深谙于心，读者很快便能发现，两位作者不仅具备扎实的专业能力，更在行文之中传递出极具感染力的热忱。