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A Class II cultural resource survey of the Overland Planning Unit was performed during the summer of 1979. A sample of 24,240 acres out of a total of 681,000 acres in the Planning Unit, or a 3.6% sample, were intensively inventoried. The sample acres were surveyed with the goal of locating all cultural resources. The goals of the survey were to make predictions of the kinds, numbers and distribution of sites throughout the Planning Unit. A Class I overview of the Rawlins District, Bureau of Land Management is also included. The results of research conducted with data obtained are also discussed.