WHY IS FINANCIAL EPHEMERA IMPORTANT?
Many mines throughout the western united states are currently known as Abandoned Mine Lands (AML). My personal interest and professional work involves study and remediation of contaminated sites. These sites are usually on lands managed by federal or state environmental protection agencies or land managers. Usually the lands have significant public safety or environmental concerns. Typically the land managers punt, since there is no longer a financial source available to study and cleanup the property (the owners are suslay long gone). But every now and again they source removal, occasionally cleaning water on sites with high value targets. As such, historic photographs especially complete and partially dated photographs are an absolute essential part of due diligence to discern/verify site use and potential contaminant source. For example, the public can often determine if a source is under study but have no idea if either the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or State Reg
