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One of the key roles of Macdonald & Lawrence as the stewards of the historic conservation part of the project is tracking each piece of wood. It doesn't matter necessarily where it ends up; the important thing, as part of the Standards and Guidelines of the Conservation of Historic Places, is to track every piece...I, myself, as the conservation specialist, I'm really focused on the historic wood, What we were doing, and one of my roles, was to assess the wood as it came off (the Trestle). So we would take down a bent and I would assess each post, stick by stick, determine whether or not they had the specifications that they could go back in...First of all, as many as those (historic pieces) are going back into the inactive (bents) as possible. What I mean by inactive, we're doing the same thing in situ, which means we're not taking them down, we're going to work one piece at a time, replacing what needs to be replaced - in the inactive bents, there's a lot less work to do - they only have to support their own weight, so the specifications are a little different. In that sense, we can replace a deteriorated post with an historic post, so long as it meets the specifications.