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Like it or not, "The Hand of Man" has been alive and traveling that part of the land for many, many years.

The problem as I see it is that like most anything, the good or bad of it is in the eyes of the beholder/builder.

I stayed at a site on Bentpine and while exploring the area around my camp, found a table made from logs with a big flat rock for a top.

There were Beaver FEET all around the table/ground, some still had fur on them.

I'm assuming it was a cleaning/skinning work station for trappers.

The Native People are the only ones that can legally trap in the park, so unless poachers came in, it was Native People doing the "furniture building".

There is a very elaborate fire pit on that no-name lake where the run-out from Cirrus is on one end and the short portage into Cirrus in on the other.

It was multi level and you could see places where you could use it as a smoker. QD told me that there is a big sucker run every spring at the outlet and the tribe nets them and smokes them.

  What bothers me more than any man-made structure using rocks or DEAD logs is the people who crap IN the camp area as if that is an acceptable thing ANYWHERE.

I honestly don't think there is anywhere at least in the lower 49 states where you can't find a backwoods camp of some sort sooner or later.

You see all those iron chains/pins on rocks along the rivers from the logging era and that big iron gear "canoe anchor" on BH. All of it not of the natural world but part of the history of the region.