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A Tree Party Rebellion

Marita Noon

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Communities all over the country feel that their hands are tied with
one-size-fits-all DC Brand Red Tape. The rules and regulations prevent them from
doing what is best for their specific circumstances. The situation has escalated
to the point where elected officials are now taking charge to do what is local
and logical.

What took place this
weekend in the rural New Mexico town of Cloudcroft could become the model for
all who want to cut the red tape. Hundreds of people were at what is being
called the “Otero County Tree Party” in support of realigning the federal
government and putting them back where they belong.

Ten years ago, the New Mexico State Legislature passed SB1,
which was signed into law
by then-governor Gary Johnson. The legislature overwhelmingly voted for it,
believing that it was a necessity borne out of “Uncontrollable, but preventable
wildfires, and unresponsive federal agencies.” The Forest Service’s (USFS)
inaction to reduce or remove the fuel buildup put “the lives and property of the
citizens of New Mexico” at risk.

SB1 exerted local sovereignty over public lands. But it had never been
tested.

Then, in 2011, the Wallow
and the Las
Conchas Fires left severe economic and social impacts—much like the 2000
Los Alamos Fire that prompted SB1.

For the past
decade, the folks in Otero County have been trying to work
with the USFS to solve the problem of the Lincoln National Forest. It was
unhealthy, like a tinderbox.
Each time the county leadership thought the members were making progress with
the Forest Service officials, the officials were transferred. The stall tactics
worked until the summer of 2011, when the county declared a state of
emergency.

Ronny Rardin, chairman of the Board of Otero County Commissioners, told me
they didn’t want to be the next disaster. People’s lives were in grave danger.
The commissioners drafted the Emergency Forest Management Plan. On September 9,
a public hearing was held. One-hundred twenty people supported the plan. Two
opposed it. The commission voted to move forward.

For the past 20 years, since the Mexican Spotted Owl was listed as an
endangered species, New Mexico’s forests have become overgrown. Thousands of
jobs were lost, sawmills closed up. Fires became wild.

A study done earlier
this year by the USFS’s Pacific Research Station, and validated by work done by
Sandia National Laboratories, shows that the healthiest forests in the arid
climate of the Southwest have approximately 50 trees per acre. Many of the
forests in the Southwest have as many as 2,500 trees per acre. Forest management
practices that aim to restore owl habitat, rather than that of an overall
healthy forest, have contributed to increased fuel loads and fire severity.

The forest density is a serious fire danger, as the trees are thin and
unhealthy. Many small trees lead to high-intensity fires where, by contrast,
forests with fewer and larger trees have low-intensity fires. Additionally,
there is not enough water to support all the trees—which also makes them more
susceptible to disease, and dead trees burn more easily than healthy ones.

The water issue is dangerous for more than just the trees’ health and fire
prevention. With the current forest density, the trees are sucking up the
limited water supply and threatening the local communities who depend on the
near-surface aquifer.

The nearby forests of the Mescalero Tribe provide a case study on forest
management. Rather than following USFS policy, they manage for the health of the
forest and practice uneven age management—meaning they log selectively. When
there are forest fires—a reality in the arid mountains of the Southwest—in the
Lincoln National Forest, the fires quickly become wild, threatening people,
livestock, structures, and livelihoods. When the same fire rushes on to
Mescalero lands, due to the healthier trees and less density, it lays down and
becomes a more manageable surface fire. An added bonus: their forests have
several spotted owl protected activity centers.

Keeping the forest healthy through thinning costs about $600 per acre, but
fighting a forest fire can cost nearly four times more. Additionally, rather
than going up in smoke, thinned material can be used for wood products and
biofuels. The thinning helps the watershed store more water and limits erosion,
which fills up reservoirs and streams with silt from the flash floods on
mountains with no vegetation to hold the water back. It also helps maintain the
mountain ecosystem and allows the snow to melt and filter into the ground water
rather than evaporating from the branches, reduces structure damage and
insurance issues, and maintains the recreation economy.

So, why has the USFS fought the citizens of Otero County, who want what is
best for their community? Why were Congressman Steve Pearce and county
commissioners threated with incarceration if they cut the tress as planned? Like
“Why is the EPA fighting farmers?” answers to these questions remain left to our
imagination.

What we do know is that on Saturday, September 17, the Otero Country Tree
Party put the Forest Service on notice. They did not ask permission; they
realigned the government and took back their right to manage the lands owned by
the state and county.  The 1976 Federal Land Policy and Management
Act requires that the lands be managed in coordination with the state
and local governments and New Mexico state law gives local sovereignty over
public lands.

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez supports the county’s efforts but could
not attend because of the state’s special legislative session going on at the
same time. A letter from Lt. Governor John Sanchez was read at the rally before
the tree cutting ceremony.

The Sheriff’s Department had an obvious presence with a SWAT vehicle and riot
gear. But the only trouble was a lone environmentalist holding up a sign in
opposition of the tree cutting efforts.

While the “Tree Party” on Saturday was largely symbolic, it let the Forest
Service know the County is serious. If the Forest Service doesn’t follow through
with the Emergency Forest Management Plan the County has drawn up, the County
will have no choice but to move forward on its own. The actions taken by the
Otero County Commissioners are being watched closely by the National Association
of Counties.

The Otero Country Tree Party has worked to stay within the law
and asked people to leave their pitchforks and chainsaws at home. The trees were
cut by professionals, who safely dropped them, as a cheering public looked on.
Congressman Steve Pearce cut the first tree under the direct supervision of the
professionals. The Tree Party supporters then helped clean up—doing what the
USFS should be doing.

The Otero County Commissioners believe that in addition to saving lives and
property through reducing the fire danger, their Emergency Forest Management
Plan can provide as many as 1,000 jobs for the local communities. Chairman
Rardin said: “We are just trying to fix our problem. This is what America
wants.”

The Otero County Tree Party is a movement that could change the nation as
other counties realign the government by putting them back where they
belong.

Marita Noon
Marita Noon is Executive Director of Energy Makes America
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Kristin
Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 5:21 PM

Since when is a burning forest healthy habitat for any
creature? It seems the spotted owls best interests are also served by
appropriate management of these tinderbox-forests.

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sdeal Wrote:
Oct 30, 2011 9:08 AM

Your not getting the just of the article, Kristin. I studied
forest recovery in Southern California...the Fed, the USFS have it wrong.
Prevention of fire is the WORST thing you can do to habitats and environments
that REQUIRE fire to stay healthy. The public has already forgotten the lessons
we learned from the Yellowstone.....prior to the fire "scientists" believed
degradation an extinction of some species were due to human causes. After the
fire those species not only showed up, but the Park Officials had to deal with
"excess animals" that showed up to feed where the plants had rejuvenated. This
is one example of thousands where "human causes" are actually not the issue...

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sdeal Wrote:
Oct 30, 2011 9:11 AM

Letting Forest litter accumulate is not the answer, neither
is letting fire burn out of control. Los Angeles experiences fires periodically
that devastate the mountains...not because fire is bad, but because ALL fires
are prevented- forest litter accumulates (sometimes for decades) and when a fire
burns it sterilizes the soil. Normal fire cycles include cool, fast moving
(grass) fires that clean and rejuvenate, release seeds whose coatings need fire
to germinate, and cause herbs and forbs to become available for wildlife.

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sdeal Wrote:
Oct 30, 2011 9:14 AM

Tea Party Rebellion is an attempt to stop/correct JUST THESE
TYPES OF DECISIONS that the Fed is making, in many, many types of circumstances.
Continuing the example above...I remember when the governor of California SOLD
the fire fighting planes that were made for dropping water in the steep canyons
and hillsides! Incredulous! The homes that were lost (and are lost today)
amounts to BILLIONS lost annually!! Why the insurance lobby doesn't get involved
is beyond me....Get it?

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Marc Wrote:
Sep 19, 2011 8:54 PM

This is the way that it is meant to be done. As i have said
and many other too, when the government takes over control the job does not get
done but the money sure gets spent, ok, I have not said it quite like that.
Actually that time I said it better. If there is a law to stop you from doing
what is right then it has to go, government does not know best.

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Luny Tune
Wrote: Sep 19, 2011 1:21 PM

My wife and I spent the weekend watching "Gettysburg", a
very lengthy movie, factually based. I major conclusion I came to confirmed
feelings I have had for a long time. THE CIVIL WAS WAS NOT ABOUT SLAVERY. IT WAS
ABOUT STATES RIGHTS. Over the past 150 years, states and local municipalities
have lost more and more rights to the federal government. The forest situation
is perfect example, considering a spotted owl more important than true
conservation. The same battle is going on in Texas over a bird which supposedly
only nests in Salt Cedar. BULL. Now environmentalists want to shut down oil
drilling in West Texas to protect a lizard which has survived the dangers of
life since the beginning of time. ENOUGH. Time to take back our rights.

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Luny Tune
Wrote: Sep 19, 2011 1:23 PM

Even England was not this oppressive on the colonists,
taking away our freedom and rights. Rights do not belong to the Federal
Government. They belong to individuals.

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sdeal Wrote:
Oct 30, 2011 9:15 AM

You have read the Declaration again.....I agree with you!

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Blair Wrote:
Sep 19, 2011 1:20 PM

Remember the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1980s? It spawned
the violent offshoot of the Church of
Jesus Christ Christian, (aka, the Aryan
Nations), called The Order, (named after an extremist group in
the radical
right novel The Turner Diaries), which "took back America from the ZOG, (Zionist
Occupation Government)." In short, the federal government.

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Bob_C Wrote:
Sep 18, 2011 11:49 PM

more on the Republican blood thinkers....

5. The
need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possible, or by
exclusionary violence if necessary.

6. The need for authority by natural
leaders, culminating in a national chief who alone is capable of incarnating the
group's destiny.

7. The superiority of the leader's instincts over
abstract and universal reason.

8. The beauty of violence and the
efficacy of will, when they are devoted to the group's success.

9. The
right of the "chosen people" to dominate others without restraint from any human
or divine law, "right" being decided solely by the group's prowess in a
Darwinian struggle.

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Blair Wrote:
Sep 19, 2011 2:06 PM

Blob, are you calling Republicans Nazis? If you are, then
you'd better look in the mirror. Read Jonah Goldberg's book Liberal Fascism. It
was the Democrats who conspired to keep blacks from voting by
imposing poll
taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses. The Ku Klux Klan, (KKK), was
founded by
Democrats, not Republicans. When I was in high school, I did a
report on the Ku Klux Klan. There's a book about it but I can't think of the
name.

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Bob_C Wrote:
Sep 18, 2011 10:40 PM

The main thrust of the German Panzer attack simply by-passed
the Maginot Line, rendering it obsolete.

If a rogue country wants to put
a nuke bomb into an American city.

It will be smuggled in. How many
illegals have sneaked in?

It will be flown in on a private jet. This
private jet will simply veer off course the final minute and go Boom.

It
will be sailed in. Any yacht can stow aboard a nuke bomb and then sail into any
American port of its choice.

Missile defense presumes the enemy will
follow our line of convenient thinking. It's not about 'missile defense', it's
about 'preventing a nuke bomb from entering an American city.'

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Blair Wrote:
Sep 19, 2011 2:12 PM

Blob, the Maginot Line was obsolete from DAY ONE. It was
incomplete by the time World War II began.
According to the classic series
THE WORLD AT WAR, the Maginot Line protected Germany more than it
protected
France. Eben Emele, a Belgian fort, was neutralized by German paratroopers
landing on its
roof. Generals, as the saying goes, fight the last war.

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Gary Wrote:
Sep 18, 2011 10:34 PM

Bob, You were probably the GEEK holding up the sign
protesting the TREE PARTY, it's funny how you cut out when Ms./ Noon pointed you
out and acknowledged that you had a right to speech but were obviously not
interested in solving the problem. How do the Greenies propose to solve and
protect Coudcroft from the fire that is imminent unless the forest is
thinnedjQuery15209647935299131236_1316398860939?? THE USFS spent over $100
Million on fire Supression, $200 Million on Rehavilitation and burned $1.1
Billion of timber, Good Management and Economics??? You Figure

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Gary Wrote:
Sep 18, 2011 10:32 PM

Bob, You were probably the GEEK holding up the sign
protesting the TREE PARTY, it's funny how you cut out when Ms./ Noon pointed you
out and acknowledged that you had a right to speech but were obviously not
interested in solving the problem. How do the Greenies propose to solve and
protect Coudcroft from the fire that is imminent unless the forest is
thinnedjQuery15209647935299131236_1316398860938??

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Gary Wrote:
Sep 18, 2011 10:28 PM

Bob, You are obviously one of the GREENIES who has profited
from the system, you better grab your back side as the time is coming when the
funds that you are sucking out of the country will come to a hault and you will
have to get a real job.

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wordsPerMinute
Wrote: Sep 18, 2011 9:22 PM

Ms. Noon this issue is an example of the intersection of
God, Family, and Country. Liberals are very much Bible illiterate so nothing
makes sense to them except controlling many for the sake of the few. In the book
of Genesis God blesses His creation to populate, fill, and subdue the earth. See
Genesis 1:28.
Subdue is a word you would use to catch a wild mustang horse
and train it to work for you. So when we manage our forests and treat them like
agriculture we are obeying God. Liberals for the most part worship the creation
and not the Creator.

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tirell Wrote:
Sep 19, 2011 8:44 AM

reform. Mercatus made 44 recommendations.

W-Gramm
also serves as chair of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, director of the
Independent Women's Forum, a conservative women's group.

She has sat on
the boards of Enron Corporation, Invesco Funds, Longitude, the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange, and State Farm Insurance Companies.

Ronald Reagan
once said W-Gramm was "my favorite economist."

Ain't that a laugh, he
probably wasn't aware of what Phil and Wendy Gramm were really up to and
preparing for all along !

Gramm Leach Bliley Financial Services
Modernization Act of 1999 - Repeal of the Glass-Steagall
Act
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm-Leach-Bliley_Act

Phil Gramm Chairman
of the US Senate Committee On Banking, Housing, Urban Affairs !

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wordsPerMinute
Wrote: Sep 18, 2011 9:01 PM

Ah yes the spotted owl! I had forgotten all about it. Now
where is the little avian friend going to perch now that Liberals have burned
down the entire forest (probably the owls, nests, babies, eggs and all)?

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Lawrence
Wrote: Sep 18, 2011 11:17 PM

Such a waste. Do you know how TASTY Spotted Owl is? Esp.
with lots of garlic? No to mention those scrumptious eggs. Takes a bunch of them
to make an omelet though.

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tirell Wrote:
Sep 19, 2011 8:34 AM

companies like Enron and auditors like Andersen that are
similar to those between private companies and government agencies.

Enron
And the
Gramms

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/opinion/enron-and-the-gramms.html

Wendy
Gramm held several positions in the Reagan Administration, including heading the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 1988 to 1993.

After a lobbying
campaign from Enron, the CFTC exempted it from regulation in the trading of
energy derivatives.

Subsequently, W-Gramm resigned from the CFTC and took
a seat on the Enron Board of Directors and served on its Audit
Committee.

While on the board of directors she received donations from
Enron to support the George Mason University's Mercatus Center, a free-market
think

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Earl Wrote:
Sep 18, 2011 8:45 PM

Only the Government (and environmentalist whackos) would try
to save a creature by setting up conditions that would most likely lead to its
incineration.

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Lawrence
Wrote: Sep 18, 2011 11:18 PM

You mean the folks that would try to "create" jobs by
viciously attacking the people and companies who actually DO create jobs, and
taking away all their money? I think I'm starting to see a pattern here...

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tirell Wrote:
Sep 19, 2011 8:31 AM

longtime proponent of energy deregulation, an issue dear to
Enron."

Enron exploited the deregulation mania to the max, and the result
has been economic ruin for 1000s of hard-working families.

As Public
Citizen put it, "Enron developed mutually beneficial relationships with federal
regulators and lawmakers to support policies that significantly curtailed
government oversight of its operations."

The kind of madness that went on
at Enron could only have flourished in the dark.

Arthur Andersen was
supposed to have been looking at the books, but the vast shadows cast by the
ideology of deregulation allowed that company to escape effective scrutiny as
well.

So you have revolving-door abuses and pernicious financial
arrangements between

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LOGIC BOMB
Wrote: Sep 18, 2011 6:42 PM

Lazy right wing "journalism"
Example:
"answers to
these questions remain left to our imagination." Well maybe that or...

OR
maybe you could try some journalism and research the answers for your own
article.

My guess is those answers would turn out to be less
inflammatory then a baseless hypothetical.

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Reginald
Wrote: Sep 18, 2011 9:17 PM

We all know the answers. She just didn't want to inflame the
trolls like you who would take offense at the truth. The BLM doesn't give a fig
about wise land management; they just want to let the mess accumulate so as to
(eventually) burn off those pesky humans. They should all be living in cities,
anyway, taking mass transit and not making waves...

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Marita Wrote:
Sep 18, 2011 10:29 PM

Accurate observation Reginald.

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Sean Wrote:
Sep 18, 2011 5:42 PM

In the mid-1990's I worked as a forester for a paper company
with a mill in AZ. Due to restrictions on NF lands in the region we worked with
the Mescalero Nation on a thinning project. Over a three year period we
harvested around 500M tons of wood from the tribe's lands. Due to the distance
the wood was very costly. We did it as a stop-gap effort to see how the NF lands
would open up when the recovery plan for the Mex Spotted Owl was released.
Unfortunately, the company's management moved in a different direction and our
operations shut down. The paper mill was the largest single user of wood fiber
in the region and used small diameter trees.

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C.Wade Wrote:
Sep 18, 2011 5:06 PM

Are Americans regaining a glimpse of the courage of our
founders ? I certainly hope so , the KING has lost his way . ( If he ever knew
it )

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Douglas
Paul Wrote: Sep 18, 2011 1:04 PM

Marita, what a fine, well researched column. We have many of
the exact same issues here in the Northwest, adjusted for the fact we are a
temperate rain forest. I only wish our polititions had the courage and good
sense that Representative Steve Pearce has shown on this and other issues
(Numbers USA rates him a "true reformer" on illegal immigration).

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Douglas
Paul Wrote: Sep 18, 2011 1:15 PM

Er, that should be politicians, not..........

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Marita Wrote:
Sep 18, 2011 9:04 PM

Thank you!

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anonymous
Wrote: Sep 18, 2011 11:19 AM

I grew up with a father who was a Forestry major at Oregon
State University (then "College") and he practiced what I called the "Killer
School" of pruning. Anyone knows that pinching back new growth, thinning
forests, culling fruit from a tree will produce sturdier products (and more
fruit). These morons who want to save everything (including the dead growth)
don't understand that when good stewardship of the planet is put to one side,
Mother Nature takes care of things, and she has no regard for spotted owls,
snail darters, or any other "forest creature." That includes humankind. I say
get the damned government OUT OF THE WAY. Go, Tree Party!!

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Recovering
Liberal Wrote: Sep 18, 2011 10:17 AM

Excellent, Ms. Noon! Bravo, Otero County,NM!
We have
experienced similar problems in AZ. Extremely obvious in the 2003 fire on Mt.
Lemmon; a few cabins survived because the owners cleared brush away from the
buildings; it was unlawful to clear brush on their own property! Apparently some
changes have been made--there are areas of Mt. Lemmon where the brush was cut
and piled for removal this summer. An excellent book, describing ranchers'
attempts in NM and AZ to bring about sane land management policies is Nathan F.
Sayre, Working Wilderness: The Malpai borderlands group and the future of the
western range. (Rio Nuevo Publishers, Tucson, AZ)

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K.R. Wrote:
Sep 18, 2011 12:09 PM

Time sure gets away from me. I was on Mt. Lemmon the year
before the fire and I guess it was that long ago, but it surely didn't register
with me.

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Michael
Bowler (formerly Michael) Wrote: Sep 18, 2011
9:47 AM

We need more of this kind of action from local authorities.

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bill Wrote:
Sep 18, 2011 8:49 AM

for an other excellent read , check out this transcript from
Michael Crichton. Among other things he discusses the (mis)management of
Yellowstone ( about half way down the presentation
)

http://www.independent.org/events/transcript.asp?eventID=111

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tj Wrote:
Sep 18, 2011 7:49 AM

It's about time! This movement should spread like wildfire
to the rest of the states (pun intended).

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olddog39
Wrote: Sep 18, 2011 6:22 AM

Hooray! We the people need to stand up for local rights!

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Bill Wrote:
Sep 18, 2011 6:16 AM

Smoky the Bear is responsible for vast damage to property
and loss of life. The "urban conservationists" who fill the ranks of the left
wing agitation squads know nothing about conservation.

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