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Page 105 1 warrants removal, I trust his judgment a 2 hundred percent. 3 I seriously doubt we would have any 4 professional differences in the assessment of a tree. 5 Q. Thank you. 6 Are you aware that the plans that you 7 reviewed, the TR-01, -2 and -3, do you distinguish 8 between viable and non-viable trees being removed, 9 specifically on TR-02? 10 A. You know, basically the unfortunate 11 thing about that report is it doesn't have a column 12 indicating the condition of the tree. 13 So, you know, in looking at it, I have 14 to presume that they were healthy trees if they're 15 not being removed. 16 And, you know, I did -- my emphasis in 17 reviewing, you know, TR-1, -2, and -3 was to look for 18 the largest trees that were existent since the -- the 19 initial planting and development of the site and to 20 try to preserve those. And, you know, I -- I 21 acknowledged a lot of the other trees that were 22 volunteers that were self-planted on the site. 23 But my emphasis was to try to preserve 24 as many trees as possible, but certainly the original 25 planted trees, the -- the Colorado blue spruce, the