MOST PEOPLE title in an arborist as quickly as they suppose it’s time for a tree to be eradicated, a pricey course of each financially and environmentally, since timber are important drivers of fluctuate. Immediately’s buyer runs a tree-care company and likewise a tree-focused nonprofit that emphasize fully completely different corporations as an alternative of removals, advocating for the planting of youthful timber, for caring for our timber with good structural pruning, and customary inspections to get to know them bigger and protect forward of any factors, and for considerate help of lifeless and dying timber as necessary perpetually members of our ecosystems.
Basil Camu is co-founder of Leaf & Limb tree care company in Raleigh, N.C., and creator of the mannequin new e e e-book, “From Wasteland to Shock: Straightforward Methods We Can Assist Heal Earth contained in the Sub/Metropolis Panorama.” Leaf & Limb is a extraordinarily completely fully completely different type of tree service that doesn’t do take-downs, and as an alternative focuses on tree care by all phases of life, our matter correct this second.
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Margaret Roach: Efficiently, we had been launched, I don’t know, a pair months before now by Doug Tallamy of College of Delaware, who praised your e e e-book to me and your work, your tree-care work, and likewise you and I did a “New York Conditions” yard column collectively not too approach again, and I discovered tons from that.
So, folks normally title a tree service as quickly as they’re in a panic, don’t they? They’re saying, “Oh, my goodness, I’ve to take down. Assist,” right? Yeah [laughter].
Basil: Yeah. It’s an infinite a part of … I recommend, actually, I’d say it’s virtually all of what the tree-service commerce does is removals.
Margaret: Yeah, and doubtless as an alternative, ideally, sometime, sometime, sometime we’d all have a relationship with an expert in tree care, an ongoing relationship, as an alternative of merely calling for emergency interventions, you perceive?
Basil: Appropriate. Yeah, completely. I recommend, I actually really feel even right now, it’s attention-grabbing, we now have a neighborhood story rising correct proper right here in Raleigh, whereby this outdated oak is having to be eradicated from really one amongst our downtown metropolis squares. And the reality of the matter is, it’s in actually dire state of affairs. It has an enormous reduce up, numerous danger components. Nonetheless type of going as soon as extra to what you had been saying earlier, numerous these components begin just a few years prematurely.
So I actually really feel actually, the first step is to ensure that the tree has excellent soil successfully being, which we’ll do with the complete strategies throughout which you perceive, in precise truth: leaving the leaves, along with arborist wooden chips, these kinds of factors. And the second half, I actually really feel, to this long-term preemptive take care of timber is solely ensuring that they’ve good structural stability, due to in another case … I frequently wish to remind of us, timber superior and tailored contained in the forest setting, and in that setting they need to compete for daylight. And as quickly as they compete for daylight, they develop straight and tall with well-spaced branches. It’s a extraordinarily preferrred improvement.
As quickly as they develop contained in the suburban setting, they don’t should primarily compete for property, to allow them to develop in these unnatural methods. There are enormous branches which may very well be too heavy. So, we’re all accustomed to seeing that, due to that is the place we preserve, however it’s not primarily how a tree is meant to develop. So, structural stability actually does matter.
Margaret: Appropriate, and I want to debate significantly bit about structural pruning and one different factors, however ahead of we change on, you used a phrase that people ask me about tons, “arborist wooden chips.”
Basil: Appropriate.
Margaret: And that’s a selected concern from wooden chips, bark chips or no matter, which can might be discovered a bag. Arborist wooden chips, why do you specify it that technique? Due to it has the complete completely fully completely different components of a tree?
Basil: Yeah, we would really most actually do a complete podcast merely speaking about this subject. [Laughter.] The wanting it’s that … Let me merely current the fast rundown. Primary, these are the stays of branches and trunks which may very well be being chipped, and so what you’ve merely stated, it’s all components of the tree. And the analysis reveals one issue like—accurately, the bulk, I acquired’t even put a quantity on them—virtually the complete enzymes and the aminos and the actually good dietary nutritional vitamins are literally contained in the small twigs and leaves. Nonetheless fully completely different components of the tree produce completely different factors that matter, so that you just simply’re getting all components of the tree, which suggests you’re feeding a wider fluctuate of life contained in the soil, so that you just simply’re attracting completely fully completely different type of fungi, completely fully completely different type of micro organism. We’re actually emphasizing that outrageous fluctuate contained in the soil.
I would furthermore say, type of from an environmental standpoint—and that is my essential lens zooming out significantly bit—as quickly as we’re occupied with, say, a double-shredded mulch or a triple-shredded mulch, which is type of widespread, these have really been run by chippers two instances or thrice, resulting from this truth the decide. So, they’ve a masses better carbon footprint. For people who don’t know what that time interval is, that’s principally how masses fossil gasoline are we utilizing to create this product, roughly. So, we’ve acquired better carbon footprint. Then everytime you get into the bagging elements, now you’re introducing pointless waste. There’s transportation components. These all add to the carbon footprint.
And let me merely add one fully completely different layer, which is, these double- and triple-shredded mulches which may very well be so widespread usually tend to flip into waterproof. And when that occurs, which suggests your tree’s really not getting water, so now as an alternative of serving to retain moisture to your tree, you’re really hurting it. We’re able to get at bigger successfully being, decreasing carbon footprints, holding native fluctuate in play—due to you most likely can consider a neighborhood tree harbors native fungal strains. So, there’s merely fairly just a few causes to associate with arborist wooden chips, they usually’re free from most tree corporations, by the best way during which throughout which.
Margaret: Sure, and in order that’s why I needed to diploma it out due to it’s one issue that I do know most of us don’t perceive, and I merely wished to produce it significantly little little little bit of a shout-out, so thanks. Thanks for the elevator pitch on arborist wooden chips. That was an extended elevator experience, however it was a brief model of the entire story of arborist wooden chips. [Laughter.]
Basil: Sorry.
Margaret: So structural pruning, you had been speaking about how in a forest, the complete timber are competing for the sunshine property and so forth, they normally moreover develop up, up, up, straight up, they usually have better-spaced branches than they do as quickly as we stick one tree in the course of our yard and it has all these property, however that’s not going pure for it. That’s not the best way during which throughout which it superior to develop. So, if we had this preferrred relationship with a tree-care expert, resembling your self, and you’ll come and go to and we’d do an inspection, so to talk, of the complete timber on my property, and we’d get to know them and we’d make notes? Or-
Basil: Yeah, completely.
Margaret: Yeah. After which when does the structural pruning start? So take me by a faux … How will we get to know one another, after which when will we begin pruning? [Laughter.]
Basil: Appropriate. It’s a unbelievable query, and I want to simply introduce, go only one diploma higher for a second and clarify why any of this factors. As timber mature, as your listeners all know, their advantages to native ecology improve exponentially. So, if we’re wanting to assist heal Earth, and we’re desirous to revive numerous of these giant environmental components that we’re dealing with, one amongst many quite simple factors we’ll do is assist our timber preserve so long as attainable.
So in that vein, if I used to be to satisfy with you, most actually the very very very very first thing I’d wish to strive is principally the soil spherical your timber, and the event of these timber. Ideally, structural pruning would start at a extraordinarily youthful age. It isn’t normally the case. Usually, it is potential you may not get to go to a tree till it’s significantly older. In relation to soil, we’re going to make the most of some pretty simple proxies, like pushing a screwdriver into the underside. Is that this good loamy, wealthy soil, or is that this the norm, which is outdated agricultural hardpan, or no matter. In new neighborhoods it’s going to merely be purple clay.
And these are actually the 2 giant factors. In relation to improvement, we’re going to look and see, does this tree have one trunk or fairly just a few trunks? Is it leaning? Oftentimes spherical, say, a home, it might really develop over the roof due to there’s numerous daylight there. So, most likely we’ve got now to cut once more numerous of these branches as soon as extra.
I would say for anyone who’s listening and desires to examine tons about structural pruning, Dr. Ed Gilman, former professor at College of Florida, is the preeminent expert. And he’s written a e e e-book often known as “An Illustrated Information to Pruning,” and that’s the gold common right there.
Margaret: Huh. O.Okay. You merely talked in regards to the soil all through the tree and likewise you stick the screwdriver in. It’s an extended screwdriver, I actually really feel I have in mind you chatting with me about contained in the “New York Conditions” interview, and likewise you should gauge type of the compaction or hopefully lack of [laughter], that it’s not too compact and like a rock.
Basil: Appropriate.
Margaret: So let’s say we do that spherical numerous of my timber, and likewise you uncover that numerous of them have loads a lot much less preferrred soil circumstances than others or no matter. Do you then say to me, “Hey, I actually really feel I have to advise you to get on a program to do …” fill contained in the clear? I recommend, is it-
Basil: Yeah. I’ll provide you with some DIY stuff. I actually really feel your listeners would respect that, however I’ll furthermore degree out educated method. After which by means of soil, one amongst many causes I much like the screwdriver proxy is due to if it’s simple to push in, it means the soil has numerous open pores, which signifies good improvement. And soil can solely have good improvement contained in the presence of numerous life, due to life is what provides soil numerous its improvement. It’s the tunneling of earthworms, and it’s prey and predator, and it’s the complete life that occurs. Really healthful soil is additional air than the rest, in order that’s why the screwdriver proxy’s a pleasant one.
If it’s arduous to push in, it means there’s not fairly just a few open pore residence contained in the soil, and it means we potential don’t have fairly just a few life in that soil. So the very very very first thing I would advise from a DIY method is add 6 inches of arborist wooden chips spherical this tree. Go from trunk to edge of cover within the occasion you happen to can. Don’t pile it on the trunk. We don’t wish to do this. That makes a selected concern, the dreaded mulch volcano.
Margaret: Ah, the volcano mulching, ah! [Laughter.] Yeah. So, holding it away from the trunk, however that thick a layer of arborist wooden chips.
Basil: Yeah. And the cool concern about arborist wooden chips is you may even go as loads as 12 inches within the occasion you need, due to they don’t have the an an identical components that loads of the fully completely different mulches have. They don’t flip into waterproof. It’s very completely fully completely different. The choice concern I’m going to say is in precise truth, go away the complete leaves on this mattress, if attainable. Chances are you’ll not need them in your grass. Most individuals have grass, for bigger or worse, however a minimal of rake these leaves into this mattress. Allow them to rot.
After which for individuals who’re motivated to take movement, plant some understory native timber and shrubs. This not solely helps additional improve the soil. In “Mycorrhizal Planet,” Michael Phillips signifies that once you might need eight or additional species rising subsequent to at the least one one different, timber and shrubs, they start searching for and selling property, so dietary nutritional vitamins and factors like that, in order that they’re all serving to at the least one one different establishing soil sooner. Nonetheless we’re furthermore offering this understory layer by which moths and butterflies can end their progress phases, so there’s numerous causes so as in order so as to add some understory timber and shrubs, if attainable. That’s the DIY method.
Now, normally we’ll be working with say, I don’t know, a enchancment company. It’s a prize oak close to a corporation campus, let’s say. They want outcomes sooner, due to what I’ve merely described takes time. Efficiently, you then most likely can rent educated to go in with this software program program often known as an air spade. Primarily, it’s like a rototiller that makes use of air so that you just simply don’t harm the roots, and likewise you flip the soil and likewise you combine in numerous leaf compost as you receive this, and also you then definately add wooden chips on prime. That principally expedites the tactic. That may or could not matter. I actually really feel for lots of listeners correct proper right here, wooden chips, leaving the leaves, planting understory, it’s a unbelievable method.
Margaret: O.Okay. All right, good. You jogged my memory everytime you merely had been describing this, I actually really feel in permaculture it might very properly be often known as a guild practically, the companion vegetation, most likely type of a gaggle spherical a tree or no matter. Nonetheless you jogged my memory that contained in the e e e-book you furthermore discuss completely different numerous sorts of planting timber, however you advocate and likewise you facilitate, really, by your nonprofit, Enterprise Pando, you propagate and distribute seedlings, sapling timber, to environmental and ecological initiatives and so forth. Moreover that, I furthermore have in mind discovering out contained in the e e e-book the thought of planting pocket forests?
Basil: Yeah.
Margaret: Are you able to inform me what a pocket forest is?
Basil: And let’s discuss merely briefly about saplings. I’m an infinite advocate for planting native saplings, which is likely to be one to three-year-old timber, considerably as quickly as they’re grown utilizing an air pruning topic, which is how we do it at our nonprofit. We develop and provides away tens of an entire bunch of those native timber, and the great thing about these youthful saplings, they’ve excellent root improvement.
Even when it’s not an air pruning methodology, most likely you get it out of your state forest service, you’re nonetheless vulnerable to have masses increased root improvement than one can uncover contained in the containerized vegetation that you will purchase out of your native nursery. Or, just a few of us might even use the balled and burlappeds, which is likely to be masses better.
In each instances, balled-and-burlapped and containerized timber, you will have obtained very malformed root strategies that take ages for the tree to get successfully, might by no means get successfully. We see timber die prematurely frequently. It’s one amongst many purpose the widespread lifespan of a suburban tree is solely 35 years. Nonetheless saplings bypass all of that.
After which I don’t should get too deep contained in the weeds on carbon footprint and genetic fluctuate, however there’s simply so many purpose within the occasion you happen to can merely buy some seeds, develop them your self, which we give pretty simple directions for a technique to do that contained in the e e e-book, these are the timber which will potential preserve very extended and healthful lives and wish loads a lot much less repairs and fewer care.
After which by means of a pocket forest, we take this sapling thought and type of one-up it. You may consider a typical entrance yard. I don’t know what the widespread is per se, however I would estimate the widespread is, say, 1,000 sq. toes on either side of the doorway stroll, let’s merely say. So in 1,000 sq. toes, a consumer might ask us to plant one or two overstory timber and a handful of shrubs or smaller timber, let’s merely say; a normal entrance yard.
An honest quantity of plant prices an honest quantity of labor, due to these are giant timber that we’re getting from nurseries. You may, for a similar cash and the an an identical quantity of effort, load up that 1,000 sq. toes with youthful saplings. And considerably within the occasion you happen to’re rising them your self in any other case you have obtained entry to a neighborhood native nursery, you most likely can introduce fairly just a few fluctuate, overstory, understory, shrub layers. Put a bunch in there. We usually will residence them out each 2 to a couple toes.
And the sweetness is you most likely can let that develop up with practically no repairs or watering. Not every little issue’s going to stay. Between 5 p.c and 30 p.c of the timber will die, however that’s okay, due to there’s so numerous them. And which will create this most quantity of above-ground native fluctuate, and ditto underground. So, we’re actually maximizing the quantity of photosynthesis that’s taking place, soil formation, life for numerous creatures, birds, bugs, you establish it. And if our curiosity is addressing environmental considerations, serving to fully completely different life preserve, and serving to heal Earth, then that is normally an excellent method to do it.
And it doesn’t price any more money or time to position in, and it’s tons simpler to keep up up over the long term, due to when the system begins to mature after relating to the third or fourth 12 months, it closes. There’s no additional weeds which can enter. You don’t ought to do one factor, whereas in that fully completely different regular entrance yard, you’re going so as in order so as to add mulch yearly. You’re going to must tug weeds yearly, or most likely you’re spraying an herbicide. There’s merely perpetually repairs taking place in that residence.
Margaret: Yeah, and we’re all impatient and we want the huge B&B, on the spot tree type of concern, and so forth. Nonetheless the fully completely different concern about saplings is, and likewise chances are you’ll want stated this, however I don’t suppose so, they actually catch up.
Basil: They do.
Margaret: I recommend, yeah, they’re not going to be the an an identical dimension as that X-hundred-dollar balled-and-burlapped contemplate 5 minutes, however in 5 years, they’re going to be fairly rattling giant. Are you acutely aware what I recommend?
Basil: Yeah. There’s good peer-reviewed analysis on that entrance. I bear in mind it’s 50 p.c of B&B and containerized timber die, and of the 50 p.c that survive, it’s inside about, I can’t have in mind my numbers off the perfect of my head, however let’s merely play it protected correct proper right here, 5 to 10 years, these saplings will catch up. Usually, saplings have tons decrease mortality, after which all by that timeframe, they’re going to be better and further healthful than that balled-and-burlap ped or that containerized tree.
Margaret: Due to they rooted from a youthful age into that soil.
Basil: Precisely.
Margaret: That’s their native habitat, so to talk.
Basil: Precisely.
Margaret: They normally’re acclimated from youth, which is principally necessary.
Basil: Precisely. And hearken to, it may very well be even simpler than that. My favourite concern … And we now have significantly video. We now have a YouTube channel. There’s a bunch of fulfilling movement footage, however we made this video the place … And that is impressed by a Fb group often known as Timber From Seed. He does a unbelievable job, however I’ll current the pitch correct proper right here. Take a little bit of hen wire. Make a pleasant little circle. Use a sod pin to push it inside the bottom and protect the wire in place, after which merely dump a bunch of seeds inside the center. Presumably put some leaves on prime, and it’s wonderful. You’ll get a bunch of timber that develop from that residence. They’ll have a built-in safety cage, after which you most likely can every merely let all of them develop and determine it out, or choose for the winner, and that’s most actually top-of-the-line method to plant a tree.
Margaret: Appropriate. Fairly wild. So, I have to make it potential for we now have time to speak about my favourite matter, since I preserve correct proper right here contained in the graveyard of fallen timber [laughter]. I want to debate lifeless and dying timber and managing them, and occupied with them in every other case, due to the complete arborists spherical correct proper right here type of have, at one time or one completely different, given me the aspect eye as quickly as I’ve outlined what I needed to have occur with a tree that was declining, let’s say.
And we’re not speaking about when there’s hazard, I recommend, when it’s hanging over the home or hanging over the automotive park or no matter. We’re not speaking about when there’s hazard concerned.
Basil: Correct.
Margaret: Nonetheless assuming there’s no hazard—the remainder of this dialog assumes there’s no hazard to folks or property—I merely suppose that these are these treasured beings that grew up out of this place, they normally must be laid to relaxation correct proper right here. And nonetheless that goes, whether or not or not or not they fall down, or they should come down in phases or no matter, and I’ve carcasses of beloved timber mendacity spherical my property. And as quickly as additional, folks most actually suppose I’m fully bonkers, however there’s not one mendacity all by the driveway or one issue [laughter].
Basil: Yeah.
Margaret: I merely make room for them. And boy, oh boy, do the woodpeckers adore it. Oh, my goodness, I’ve additional pileated woodpeckers than … It’s fulfilling. It’s actually fulfilling.
Basil: It’s, and likewise you perceive what else? These woodpeckers, for individuals who don’t primarily care virtually a woodpecker, which I in precise truth do and likewise you do, too, however woodpeckers present free pest administration. So, spherical correct proper right here we now have Southern pine beetle, Ips, turpentine beetle, every type of damaging wood-boring bugs. These are snacks for the woodpecker, so once you might need woodpeckers, you’re most actually getting fairly just a few safety for numerous of your fully completely different timber. That’s a unbelievable set off to have a minimal of 1 lifeless tree.
Nonetheless I would go technique earlier that. I actually really feel lifeless timber in and of themselves are an important a part of the ecosystem. I actually really feel you stated this contained in the article, that after they die, they start a second life, and that second life affords masses meals and masses residence and habitat for all situations that want that residence.
Margaret: Sure, completely. And I recommend, the variety of microorganisms that work on the declining tree, after which when it’s a fallen log, when it’s mendacity on the underside, all these years after that, I recommend billions, most actually. I don’t know what selection of an entire bunch of 1000’s are in a carcass of a tree on account of it degrades and degrades and degrades, all these detritivores, all these little processors of the pure provides. And the place can we anticipate pure provides … We’re saying, “Depart the leaves,” accurately, go away the timber, right?
Basil: Yeah. Hey, you perceive, I don’t, in precise truth, have in mind my numbers completely, however by means of … Merely two fulfilling information. I bear in mind it’s someplace contained in the neighborhood of 70 completely fully completely different birds rely upon lifeless timber for every houses or perches for trying.
After which on the insect aspect, I actually really feel one amongst many fascinating factors that occurs with a decaying tree, fungi set in, in precise truth, however they import dietary nutritional vitamins from the encircling soil into that lifeless tree. And with the nutrient fusion, it’s now palatable for the beetles, so the beetles change in they usually start consuming that wooden, and beetles are a extremely necessary base of many various meals webs. So, supporting beetles is an efficient technique to help so many different sorts of life.
Margaret: Yeah, and the rationale you most likely can’t have in mind the quantity, I’m going to allow you to perceive, is due to it’s completely fully completely different in each area, so don’t fear about it.
Basil: O.Okay., truthful [laughter].
Margaret: Due to it truly is. I recommend, relying on the birds which may very well be native to a particular … which may very well be in numerous a particular area, after which the habitat inside that area. I recommend, I’m two hours from New York Metropolis. Efficiently, I’ve completely fully completely different fowl species correct proper right here than, you perceive what I recommend, than in a habitat like an metropolis habitat, and many others., so it’s completely fully completely different in every single place, I actually really feel.
Basil: Good diploma.
Margaret: Nonetheless optimistic, tons and much and many birds which may very well be every essential cavity nesters which can make a spot in a tree for a roost or a nest, like a woodpecker can, or are secondary nesters, that use the cavities that they’ve inherited, so to talk, every that nature made when a tree was broken or grew in an odd technique, or {{{that a}}} woodpecker made. So, that’s fairly good.
Basil: Yeah, and likewise you perceive, it’s worth noting, nowhere correct this second have we talked about spending cash or spending additional time. All of those conversations, it’s loads a lot much less cash, loads a lot much less time, and that’s type of one amongst many key decisions of my e e e-book is, I actually really feel if we labored with pure strategies as an alternative of working in opposition to them, which works to require rethinking numerous of our paradigms, however we save time, we lower your payments, and we assist heal Earth. It’s actually solely a win-win-win, individually.
Margaret: So, contained in the closing fairly a couple of minutes we now have left, there’s merely, as quickly as additional, going as soon as extra to type of, title contained in the tree service, you perceive, that considering.
With the structural pruning, for example, and likewise you stated it ought to begin at an early age, however fairly just a few instances it doesn’t, what about when there’s a boring division in an infinite tree and it’s nowhere close to the home or one factor, however it’s up, technique up excessive in an infinite tree? I recommend, ought to we be attempting spherical on this form of inspection we’re doing? Everytime you see that and likewise you come and likewise you go to the patron and likewise you’re doing the annual inspection, are you concentrating on these and eliminating these? Or do you’re feeling the an an identical technique about those who what we had been merely speaking about with the lifeless and dying timber?
Basil: It’s the an an identical. If these branches current no danger, they need to be left for all the explanations we’ve merely talked about. As quickly as additional, and likewise you stated this earlier, it’s important, we do should prioritize human successfully being and well-being, so I will not advocate leaving one issue which can harm anyone. Nonetheless in loads of instances, the lifeless division or the lifeless tree acquired’t harm anyone, so go away it.
And actually, I’d go even earlier that. I’m a board-certified grasp arborist. I’ve been engaged on this commerce for 15 years now, and virtually all of calls that we pay money for to take away preserve timber even, they’re merely unfounded. I would say most likely as my parting present to listeners, one issue like 90 p.c of the timber that you just simply merely suppose should be eradicated don’t. I’ve been doing this extended sufficient to have the flexibleness to say that confidently. A lot of the factors that people fear about are every unfounded fears or simply these unusual metropolis myths that persist perpetually that merely acquired’t go away.
I’ll provide you with one actually quick. “The large tree close to my home, it blows contained in the wind and we now have hurricanes coming and I’m scared it’s going to fall.” Efficiently, guess what? That tree is 70 years outdated. It’s been by each principal hurricane. I’ll use North Carolina as event. Each single principal hurricane North Carolina has to throw at it, and it has survived to inform the story. Assuming there’s no change to the tree, like no new wounds, or we’ve lower off roots or one issue, then that is really your most secure tree. So loads of the timber that we anticipate should be eradicated actually don’t, and that’s a simple method to keep away from losing your self $3,000 or $4,000 and assist heal Earth. It’s solely a win-win.
Margaret: Appropriate. Efficiently, Basil Camu, I really similar to the message, and as I stated, [laughter] me correct proper right here from the place of outdated and dying and lifeless and fallen timber, the place to me, there are a selection of of my most treasured companions, so to talk. And likewise you actually can see it within the occasion you happen to let it occur. You may see what it does to heal the place and to feed the place. So I’m so glad to speak to you, and we’ll have the e e e-book giveaway too, as I stated.
Folks ought to know that the e e e-book is being supplied by your nonprofit as a free pay money for, throughout the event that they’d love to do a digital copy, or simply for the value of printing and provide as a hardcover, so I’ll give the entire small print on that, too.
Basil: That’s great. And I merely should say it’s a unbelievable honor, and thanks masses for the complete work you’ve carried out in getting actually necessary messages within the market, and thanks masses for having me correct this second.
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