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Page 56 1 the recent opportunity to meet the PSE&G Forester I 2 know they have a Forester, and I'm surprised that the 3 Forester hasn't -- 4 MS. PARLAVECCHIO: Mr. Chairperson, I'm 5 unclear what the relevance is. Mr. Futey's indicated 6 multiple times that he may have had discussions with 7 the vegetation management at PSE&G. Whether or not he 8 had a specific discussion with what Ms. Bennett refers 9 to as the PSE&G Forester I'm not sure how that has any 10 relevance to this discussion. 11 CHAIRMAN NEUER: It is relevant and I'll 12 allow it. Please continue. 13 MS. BENNETT: Thank you, Mr. Neuer. So in 14 the -- again, I apologize. I'm probably going to 15 inartfully state this, but in the hierarchy of 16 vegetation or tree specialists, is an arborist more 17 expert than a forester? 18 THE WITNESS: I don't know that I can pass 19 judgment on the rankings between them. 20 MS. BENNETT: Okay. So in the event -- so 21 would you confer with an arborist or a forester about 22 the age of a tree? 23 THE WITNESS: Really either. 24 MS. BENNETT: Would there ever be a time 25 where you'd prefer a forester to confer with over an