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Management responsibilities on public lands involve a diverse array of resources. Among these resources are vestiges
of the post-contact period when exploration, trapping, gold mining, lumbering, homesteading, livestock ranching, railroad construction, agriculture and other aspects of historic life were undertaken by the Euroamericans, Chinese, Indians, and others. Relatively early in the historic period came the Gold Rush and the attendant need for lumber for various mining features. As mining waned and settlement expanded an even greater need for lumber arose, lumber mostly available in largely undeveloped tracts quite distant from population centers and economical transportation networks. Flumes temporarily helped overcome these logistical problems. In this regard these two papers are related, although they deal with features and locations not directly intertwined.