Because the protocol is independent of application protocols, it can be (and has been) used for many different services, such as telnet, ftp, finger, whois, gopher, WWW, etc.
These forests also provide habitat for gopher tortoises, which, as keystone species, dig burrows that provide habitat for hundreds of other species of animals.
Several smaller sawmills called gopher mills operated in the area, and the timber industry, along with farming, provided the first major work for early residents.