Summary of Expert Services
The principals of JRP Historical Consulting, LLC have worked as
historical consultants on expert witness service contracts, historical
land and water use investigations, historic preservation studies, and
other historical research projects since 1977. The principal partners,
Rand Herbert and Stephen Wee, each have twenty-six years of experience
as consulting historians. The firm's third partner, Meta Bunse, has
fourteen years of experience as a historical consultant, all of them
with JRP. The partners have extensive experience designing, researching,
and writing a broad spectrum of historical studies under contract to law
firms, environmental and engineering consultants, state and federal
agencies, as well as various water users associations,
JRP's past projects related to water rights investigations have included
expert witness services and reports based on extensive historic research for
litigation and administrative adjudications of water issues and other land
or natural resource related questions. These studies have embraced pre-1914
water rights claims in California and pre-1908 water rights claims in Oregon;
Native American and Federal reserved water rights; examination of land
patents and acquisition/disposition patterns to assess potential riparian
water claims; historical studies of the hydroelectric power industry;
While water resource investigations are a primary focus of many JRP studies,
the firm has also undertaken several urban and rural land use histories and
corporate lineage studies as a part of preliminary site assessments for real
estate transactions and for CERCLA investigations. In the area of historic
preservation, JRP is a recognized industry leader in evaluation
JRP's research expertise on water issues has been developed over more than
two decades of experience in the use of local property records, records of
water claims and appropriative water right filings with administrative
boards and commissions; federal agency records in the custody of the National
Archives and other regional federal archives; private and public record
centers and archival depositories located around the nation; federal
departmental
For a number of our large-scale cultural resources inventories and litigation
support services, JRP has constructed, organized and prepared interactive
databases to archive, track, and provide ready access to large (> 30,000
documents) collections developed as a part of its, and the project team's,
research efforts.
Organized in 1981, JRP Historical Consulting, LLC has the experience,
knowledgeable personnel, and all the necessary transportation, computer,
photographic and graphics capabilities and equipment to provide prompt and
efficient services for our clients. In addition to the three partners, JRP
has a staff of eighteen professional, technical and