ASM Affiliates in Carlsbad is a 100% employee-owned cultural resources management firm headquartered on Loker Avenue West, with 13 offices spanning the western and Pacific United States. Founded in 1977, the firm fields over 100 Secretary of the Interior-qualified archaeologists, architectural historians, GIS specialists, and cultural anthropologists who produce compliance documentation under CEQA, NEPA, NHPA Section 106, and ARPA for projects coordinated with planning and engineering consultancies like Howes, Weiler, Landy — Planning & Engineering. Federal clients include the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, and all branches of the U.S. military, with ASM holding an active GSA Schedule contract for cultural resources procurement. State and regional work encompasses on-call contracts with Caltrans, Hawai'i DOT, Nevada DOT, and SANDAG, covering highway, railroad, and bridge projects that require pre-construction archaeological survey and monitoring. The firm's services extend to Native American tribal consultation assistance, tribal landscape evaluations, and ethnographic studies, producing the regulatory deliverables that land-use attorneys at practices like North County Legal®, APC rely on during entitlement proceedings. ASM's highest-complexity engagements involve multi-phase data recovery excavations with GIS-integrated predictive modeling, generating National Register eligibility determinations for archaeological sites spanning pre-contact through historic-era occupation layers.