text: Woodhouse and Lukas?? streamflow reconstructions indicated, in their words, that ???the 20th century gage record does not fully represent the range of streamflow characteristics seen in the prior two to five centuries.?? Of greatest significance, in this regard, was probably the fact that ???multi-year drought events more severe than the 1950s drought have occurred,?? and that ???the greatest frequency of extreme low flow events occurred in the 19th century,?? with a ???clustering of extreme event years in the 1840s and 1850s.??