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Page 76 1 THE WITNESS: Well, these -- these 2 largest trees are, you know, approximately a 3 hundred years old, maybe a little more. 4 But, you know, for a new tree to, you 5 know, they may never -- they may never grow to that 6 size. 7 But, you know, to -- to the extent 8 that, let's say you're planting a tree and it's 9 10-feet tall, how long will it take to be 50-feet 10 tall? Probably 25, 30 years. 11 How long will it take to be 70 or 12 80-feet tall? Well, maybe 75 years. 13 So it's just -- it's -- it's a 14 tradeoff. It's a tradeoff. 15 MR. SCOTT: Right. Right and -- 16 THE WITNESS: I mean it is -- 17 MR. SCOTT: I'm sorry. 18 Go ahead. 19 THE WITNESS: We're -- we're -- we're 20 fooling with Mother Nature. And she has a mind of 21 her own. 22 MR. SCOTT: Yes, absolutely. 23 You also testified, I don't know that 24 you've listened to other testimony from previous 25 hearings, but it was testified here by the presenters