A suggestion is that this represents portable vehicular pads. During the Vietnam war steel mesh squares which could be snapped together were used to make portable helicopter pads and roads through areas which could not otherwise be landed on or driven across. 

When I was running the field portion of the Tombigbee waterway Historic Townsites Project in 1980, I got permission to purchase enough of this to build a road over very muddy soils. We ended up using gravel, but if that had not worked, purchase of a portable road from a surplus guy in Oklahoma was our next move.

Mike Polk
Commonwealth Heritage Group
Ogden, Utah

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> On Apr 25, 2016, at 9:04 PM, Hannah Russell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> I found this material at a 1960's military complex in southeast Utah and am
> looking for some ideas of what it might be.  Funny story, within a week of
> recording this site, I was at a bar in Salt Lake City and there was a room
> divider made out of the same material.  The pictures of the material in
> situ and at the bar can be found at the link below to a google photo album.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> https://goo.gl/photos/3HfR3xJiqtUBiqDQ7
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for you help!
> 
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