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The houses were just a few feet apart and backyards tended to be repositories for rusting junk, chained dogs and old tires. It was not a sweet-smelling place. But our backyard had a mimosa tree as a centerpiece. Which was pretty cool for a pre-adolescent boy, because you could do this: Eventually, the mimosa got sick and died. It was then my father decided he would like to grow figs. They make particularly good research subjects, because it is easy to get them a bit riled up and they are easier to study in the laboratory than trees are.

When they are touched, they close their feathery little leaves to protect themselves. At first, the anxious leaves closed immediately, but after a while, the little plants learned there was no danger of damage from the water droplets. After that, the leaves remained open despite the drops. Even more surprising for Gagliano was the fact that the mimosas could remember and apply their lesson weeks later, even without further tests.

More fish because of the forest? The researcher encouraged the planting of more trees in coastal areas, which did, in fact, lead to higher yields for fisheries and oyster growers. It became my responsibility to see what could be done about that. The deeds went back to William Penn and were a twisted tale of courses and metes and bounds. As part of the investigation, I was invited into the forest. It was early May. The guy from the Department of Natural Resources said it was an active time for timber rattlesnakes so be sure to wear high boots.

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You know, having fun with city slickers. But, oh, my boots are well-traveled and the investigator who came with me was a seasoned hunter. There was one more person to complete our foursome: It is the forester that I want to talk about. The forester looked very much like the character actor, Richard Farnsworth: Only with a beaten-up old ball cap from some feed company on his head. Which is hard to do.

He would not know how to lie. We trudged through the woods to where the loss and damage was. The forester showed us the slashes to the trunks and then, explaining how the injury would eventually kill the tree, he circled the circumference with his arms. He was a different kind of tree hugger.

The tour done, we repaired to a truck stop for lunch. We piled our plates except for the forester, who took only a vegetable or two, citing a troublesome stomach, something chronic. The other two fellows were talkers, and they were trying to top each other with one wild anecdote after the other. The forester said nothing, but was looking at me, I guess trying to get my measure. The other two guys went back to the buffet, I thought maybe to set some kind of record.

The forester and I continued to sit across the table from one another. It dawned on me that he was from the forest and I was not. But surely there is a common ground. And it was as if I had passed some test, some test that meant more than all the tests academia and suits and skirts could ever devise. And I will remember that conversation until the day I die. View all 23 comments. This enchanted forest is the kind of place, I feel sure, that Peter Wohlleben inhabits. His deep understanding of the lives of trees, reached through decades of careful observation and study, reveals a world so astonishing that if you read his book, I believe that forests will become magical places for you, too.

Trees live in, have, a relationship with the trees around them beyond the fact that they are trees in the same location. Many years ago, the first time I went to Maui, when I was in Lahaina I was fascinated with the Banyan trees, their interconnected root system, and their unique appearance. When I first heard about this book, I thought of those trees and I knew I wanted to read it. Trees have memories, they have a sense of taste, and smell, they can feel, and through means other than eyes and ears, they can see and hear. Indeed, the match can be so precise that trees can release pheromones that summon specific beneficial predators.

I kinda loved this.

I learned a lot that is easily retainable, and know where to look for the answers. A few houses on our street, more streets in our neighborhood, with one lake and trees that surrounded the neighborhood. View all 22 comments. Jan 08, Matthew Quann rated it it was ok Recommended to Matthew by: If you've ever pondered the thought experiment in which a tree falls in an empty forest and the sound of its fall is in limbo, Peter Wohlleben's nonfiction might be for you.

Quite simply, the sound would be heard, according to Wohlleben, because trees are able to interpret sound and communicate with one another. Not only that, Wohlleben attributes memory and thought to the stationary beings which most of us have long considered non-sentient. This is a book full of revelations about trees and ask If you've ever pondered the thought experiment in which a tree falls in an empty forest and the sound of its fall is in limbo, Peter Wohlleben's nonfiction might be for you.

This is a book full of revelations about trees and asks the reader or in my case, listener to reevaluate their understanding of the woody sentinels. The Hidden Life of Trees is a scientific book that attempts to broaden long held perception and enrich our interactions with forest.

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It is also a book that manages to talk about trees for much longer than you would have ever thought possible. Despite my score, this is a good book. It seems well researched, Wohlleben is obviously interested and excited about his field, and it brought to me knowledge I didn't have prior to listening to it. This brought me back to first year biology classes where a month or more was spent elucidating the inner workings of plants.

It was one of those fields, of which there were many more to follow, that was nice to know about, but never piqued my interest like the fields of human physiology, biochemistry, and microbiology. So, even though I was pleased with some of the knowledge I took from this book, I can't say that I was really gripped by it. As I took another long commute, I found myself easily losing the thread of the narration when Wohlleben waxed lyrical about a particular species of tree.

In short, I spent a lot of time bored with this book. When a novel fact was introduced to me, I thought, Hey, that's kind of neat , and then drifted back into relative boredom. But, there's a pretty good chance that another reader would really be into this one! I mean, just because I don't love learning about trees doesn't mean that you won't find a lot to like here. Certainly, when I take a walk in the woods later today I'll be thinking about how trees have a lot more going on than I would have thought a week ago. With that said, Wohlleben posits morale considerations for trees that I wasn't entirely able to buy by the end of the book.

If you're more like me, then I'd probably pass on this one. Thanks to Anne Collini for this recommendation which I appreciate in spite of having not loved the book! View all 11 comments. View all 10 comments. Sep 01, Jenny Reading Envy rated it really liked it Shelves: I was inspired to read this book after reading The Overstory by Richard Powers, to learn more about the science of trees.

Included are how trees communicate, migration patterns, how and why trees hibernate, their place in ecosystems and more. Wohlleben manages a forest in Germany and directly addresses some of the misinformation he learned in forestry classes. The tone of the book and its translation is very popular in tone, which made me question the science, but he does seem to cite a lot of li I was inspired to read this book after reading The Overstory by Richard Powers, to learn more about the science of trees.

The tone of the book and its translation is very popular in tone, which made me question the science, but he does seem to cite a lot of literature. Wohlleben summarizes a lot of the research since the article in Nature about mycorrhizal fungal networks by Suzanne Simard and others. She writes the afterword in this book,which I interpret as scientific endorsement.

So most of it isn't his work, but has informed his work. View all 7 comments. May 28, Ashlula rated it liked it Shelves: I am confused about this one. It started quite interestingly but gradually lost its joyous nature. I felt like a freshman without enthusiasm, and decided to use the book as a reference. He emphasizes how related we all a I am confused about this one.

He emphasizes how related we all are, coming from the same ancestor. If you have a special interest in learning the lineages, evolution and biology of trees you may enjoy this more. Sep 26, Richard Reese rated it it was amazing. As a young lad in Germany, Peter Wohlleben loved nature.

He went to forestry school, and became a wood ranger. At this job, he was expected to produce as many high quality saw logs as possible, with maximum efficiency, by any means necessary. His tool kit included heavy machinery and pesticides. This was forest mining , an enterprise that ravaged the forest ecosystem and had no long-term future. He oversaw a plantation of trees lined up in straight rows, evenly spaced. It was a concentration camp As a young lad in Germany, Peter Wohlleben loved nature. It was a concentration camp for tree people. Wohlleben is a smart and sensitive man, and over the course of decades he got to know the tree people very well.

Eventually, his job became unbearable. There is no more clear-cutting, and logs are removed by horse teams, not machines. In one portion of the forest, old trees are leased as living gravestones, where families can bury the ashes of kin. In this way, the forest generates income without murdering trees. It will be translated into 19 languages. The book is built on a foundation of reputable science, but it reads like grandpa chatting at fireside. He teaches readers about the family of life, a subject typically neglected in schools.

Evergreen trees have been around for million years, and trees with leaves are million years old. Until recently, trees lived very well without the assistance of a single professional forest manager. Forests are communities of tree people. Their root systems intermingle, allowing them to send nutrients to their hungry children, and to ailing neighbors.

When a Douglas fir is struck by lightning, several of its close neighbors might also die, because of their underground connections. A tribe of tree people can create a beneficial local climate for the community. Also underground are mycelium, the largest organisms yet discovered. One in Oregon weighs tons, covers 2, acres ha , and is 2, years old. They are fungi that send threads throughout the forest soil. The threads penetrate and wrap around tree roots. They provide trees with water, nitrogen, and phosphorus, in exchange for sugar and other carbohydrates.

They discourage attacks from harmful fungi and bacteria, and they filter out heavy metals. When a limb breaks off, unwelcome fungal spores arrive minutes later. If the wound is too large, the fungi can cause destructive rot, possibly killing the tree. When a gang of badass beetles invades, the tree secretes toxic compounds, and sends warnings to other trees via scent messages, and underground electrical signals.

Woodpeckers and friendly beetles attack the troublemakers. Forests exist in a state of continuous change, but this is hard for us to see, because trees live much slower than we do. They almost appear to be frozen in time. Humans zoom through life like hamsters frantically galloping on treadmill, and we blink out in just a few decades. In Sweden, scientists studied a spruce that appeared to be about years old. They were surprised to learn that it was growing from a root system that was 9, years old. Scientists examined them and discovered that they belonged to pines that lived 14, years ago.

This is the equivalent of our worst-case projections today. Dinosaurs still exist in the form of birds, winged creatures that can quickly escape from hostile conditions. When the climate cools, they move south. When it warms, they go north, like they are today — because of global warming, and because they continue to adapt to the end of the last ice age. A strong wind can carry winged seeds a mile. Birds can carry seeds several miles. A beech tree tribe can advance about a quarter mile per year 0. Compared to trees, the human genome has little variation.

We are like seven-point-something billion Barbie and Ken dolls. Tree genomes are extremely diverse, and this is key for their survival. Some trees are more drought tolerant, others are better with cold or moisture. So change that kills some is less likely to kill all. Far more questionable is the future of corn, wheat, and rice, whose genetic diversity has been sharply reduced by the seed sellers of industrial agriculture. Trees have amazing adaptations to avoid inbreeding. Winds and bees deliver pollen from distant trees. The ovaries of bird cherry trees reject pollen from male blossoms on the same tree.

Willows have separate male trees and female trees. Spruces have male and female blossoms, but they open several days apart. Boars and deer love to devour acorns and beechnuts. Feasting on nuts allows them to put on fat for the winter. To avoid turning these animals into habitual parasites, nuts are not produced every year.

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This limits the population of chubby nutters, and ensures that some seeds will survive and germinate. If a beech lives years, it will drop 1. On deciduous trees, leaves are solar panels. They unfold in the spring, capture sunlight, and for several months manufacture sugar, cellulose, and other carbohydrates. When the tree can store no more sugar, or when the first hard frost arrives, the solar panels are no longer needed. Their chlorophyll is drained, and will be recycled next spring. Leaves fall to the ground and return to humus. The tree goes into hibernation, spending the winter surviving on stored sugar.

Now, with bare branches, the tree is far less vulnerable to damage from strong winds, heavy wet snows, and ice storms. In addition to rotting leaves, a wild forest also transforms fallen branches and trunks into carbon rich humus. Year after year, the topsoil becomes deeper, healthier, and more fertile.

Tree plantations, on the other hand, send the trunks to saw mills. So, every year, tons of precious biomass are shipped away, to planet Consume. This depletes soil fertility, and encourages erosion. Plantation trees are more vulnerable to insects and diseases. Because their root systems never develop normally, the trees are more likely to blow down. From cover to cover, the book presents fascinating observations. By the end, readers are likely to imagine that undisturbed forests are vastly more intelligent than severely disturbed communities of radicalized consumers.

More and more, scientists are muttering and snarling, as the imaginary gulf between the plant and animal worlds fades away. Wohlleben is not a vegetarian, because experience has taught him that plants are no less alive, intelligent, and sacred than animals. Jul 26, Paul E. This is an absolutely fascinating book. It shows a side to trees that will blow your mind unless you're a smartypants and know it all already The only criticism I have of the book is that the author does go off on the pure speculation bus every now and then, leaving the hard science at the station.

It wasn't a problem for me as I'm used to reading scientific works and am pretty good at separating the facts from the flights of fancy. Folks This is an absolutely fascinating book. Folks who don't read much popular science might assume that everything the author says is fact and end up being slightly misled. There's also a note by a 'forest scientist' at the end of the book that I think would have worked much better at the beginning My wife started this one before I did and when I asked her how she was finding it she replied 'I will never look at a tree the same way again'.

I laughed at the time but, having now read the book myself, I totally know what she means View all 8 comments. I was disappointed by this book, perhaps unfairly. My main problem was with the language, and specifically the frequent use of slang, which detracted from what was supposed to be a readable but serious look at how trees in forests interact. I assume that this is down to the translator rather than the author, but would need to have that confirmed by someone who has read the German original.

Words like "critters", "buddies" referring to trees growing near one another and "little guys" were inten I was disappointed by this book, perhaps unfairly. Words like "critters", "buddies" referring to trees growing near one another and "little guys" were intensely irritating. The worst of the lot came on page , where he was writing about ash dieback fungus, which had entered Europe from Asia and is destroying the ash trees in Europe. They are just teeny-weeny mushrooms that grow on the stalks of fallen leaves.

My other disappointment was that this book was not generally about trees, but about trees in forests in Europe, and to a lesser extent, in North America. This is understandable because Peter Wohlleben manages a forest in Germany, but the title of the book suggests that he was writing about all trees. I am none the wiser about how, say, Australian trees, or African trees, might work together.

I hope someone may do some work on this and write a readable but unslangy book about it. Sep 02, Margie rated it really liked it Shelves: If you have, you are communicating with it more than you know. In his short poem, "Trees," for which he became known, Joyce Kilmer expressed his wonder and love for these magnificent beings: I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her 4. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. Wohlleben is a German forester who set about to educate people about trees - what they mean in our lives, how they affect us, how we affect them, and how they affect each other as families and communities of trees.

Wohlleben's book is packed scientific research and his own observations of the forests that he manages. He reveals, for instance, that until the s no one had ever researched or known that trees actually communicate with one another. The phenomenon became known as the "Wood" Wide Web when it was discovered that trees in forests were connected by their roots and fungi systems through which they could communicate and feed one another.

Through this underground connection trees look after each other and even care for and "feed" sick trees in their forest communities. Acacia trees in Africa were observed to use another method of communication to warn other acacias in the area of impending danger. When giraffes started munching on their foliage, the trees first pumped a bitter tasting substance into their own leaves and then released a scent or gas to warn other acacias of the approaching trouble.

In old growth forests, trees' lives are measured, not in decades, but in centuries. A beech tree can live to be years old. However, that single beech tree which produces "a total of about 1. This review could go on and on because Wohlleben's book is packed with fascinating information. I read it slowly and when I read it at night, I often fell asleep, even though I hate to admit it!

I am a plot-driven, fiction reader, but I highly recommend this book to everyone, especially those who feel a strong connection with nature. It will open your eyes about these magnificent creatures and how they live, communicate with each other and enrich our lives. I am grateful to Peter Wohlleben for sharing his passion, knowledge, research and life's work. And yes, I do tell my trees that I love them, especially my beautiful sycamore.

View all 5 comments. An absolute gem of a book. I might be biaised as I am what people would call a 'tree hugger'. I am sorry I did not come across this book earlier in my life. As someone who last studied ecosystems in the 80's as part of the 'normal' school curriculum, this was truly enlightening. It is a very easy read and packed with invaluable information about our forests. Maybe the tree huggers are right. Please note that I put the original German text at the end of this review. Just if you might be interested. The communication network of plants and especially trees is highly sophisticated.

Solitary or only annual growing plants do not approach the complexity of the papermaking base stock. Due to their root system and their size, trees are predestined for a key position. They communicate with each other via fragrances and warn each other of pests. This causes the Maybe the tree huggers are right. This causes the warned to produce chemical substances for defense. If a human deforestation team is approaching, that is lost love effort.

The interaction with the fungi, microorganisms, insects, and birds is a balanced system. Always a little bit in the balance between symbiosis, parasitism and the struggle for life and death. The shedding of the foliage or the constant needling promotes the formation of a favorite microflora in the soil for each plant.

The wood wide web helps with communication. Forests are like multi-layered cities, in which, as in human metropolises above and below the earth, complex interwoven processes take place. Superorganisms in which the engine of evolution runs at full speed. Not everything is just sunshine for photosynthesis. It is also about disputing your competitors' living space. However, under the same species, there is the formation of communities of interest that balance the ecosystem.

The monocultures of spruces, oil palms, tropical fruits, etc. There are more uniform deserts where only a few insects and animals can live. An ever-smaller gene pool of a few genetically engineered plants carries the risk of food crises when new pests emerge. Plants that fuse with state-building insects are taking a more extreme route of specialization. They make the ants dependent on their nectar and mix in a secret ingredient.

This will make the ants biochemically unable to digest other similar foods. They become dependent on the tree and threaten to starve without him. In gratitude for this dubious symbiosis, the ants living in the tree defend it against any competitor as soon as they feel a shock or detect it other otherwise. There are still many variants of these symbioses and cooperations.

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Both insect researchers and plant researchers have had bad luck and unfortunately are too late. Selfishness is no unknown factor in the tree kingdom. If eucalyptus or other trees require fires for reproduction, they promote them. They shed leaves all year round, leaving plenty of scales and allowing flammable gases to escape.

Of course, it will also be beneficial to keep the annoying competition in this way in check as a side effect. Many trees with such a temperament are fireproofed as adults. They have to make their infants fire under the butts so they can get in the way. Suppose that it turns out in the future that all plants have feelings. A little pain reception. They fear the chainsaw, the salad fork or the weedkiller. Fruits and vegetables would, therefore, be babies. Green and too soon picked fetuses. Then primarily the parent model of the plants is to be criticized.

To pack your children in a tasty garnish, so that they are eaten, is pedagogically borderline. For the ethics of humans, it would raise the same dilemma as with meat consumption, vegetarianism, and veganism. In a way, it would be even worse, because the crops will continue to suffer, become weaker, and eventually be tortured to death with knives. Every time the vegetable compartment opens or someone goes to the fruit bowl, everyone screams in panic. When they start frowning and rotting, it is like slow starvation and gangrene for humans. What should people eat then? The last thing that would be missing then would be that all microorganisms turned out to be sentient.

Then the last alternative for the production of food by biofermenter would also be ethically biased. People are unable to understand the language of the flora. They can not automatically conclude, they would not speak and feel too. Vielleicht haben die Baumumarmer doch recht.

Das veranlasst die Gewarnten, chemische Stoffe zur Abwehr zu produzieren.

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Das wood wide web hilft bei der Kommunikation. Es geht auch darum, den Konkurrenten Lebensraum streitig zu machen. Pflanzen, die mit Staaten bildenden Insekten fusionieren, gehen einen extremeren Weg der Spezialisierung. Aber sie wissen ja. Egoismus ist auch im Baumreich kein unbekannter Faktor. Sie werfen das ganze Jahr Laub ab, damit viel Zunder vorhanden ist und lassen brennbare Gase entweichen. Was sollten die Menschen dann noch essen? Sep 28, Bam rated it really liked it Shelves: You will never view trees the same way again after reading this book.

Peter Wohlleben is a German conservationist and forester who manages a forest in the Eifel Mountains and has observed the slow-lane growth habits of his beloved trees, the secret underground social network that they share, the diseases and other dangers that threaten their survival--and most importantly, how crucial it is for the survival of all of us to allow forests to reach old-growth status again. I read this book as a com You will never view trees the same way again after reading this book. I read this book as a complement to Annie Proulx's new book Barkskins which is a work of historical fiction about the decimation of the beautiful old-growth forests in the New World.

This book was originally published in German in as Das geheime Leben der Baume and was translated to English by Jane Billinghurst. Ein sehr aufschlussreiches Sachbuch, dass selbst mir als Forstwirt noch viele neue Erkenntnisse geliefert hat. Mar 12, Dov Zeller rated it really liked it Shelves: Do you want to learn about individualistic trees and community-minded trees?

How different trees have evolved to communicate with each other and their environment and team up with their ecosystem to create a sustainable environment and protect themselves and others? Parental trees and teenager trees who, if their caretakers aren't around to facilitate their growth and educate them, grow too much too fast and, because they don't learn how to take care of themselves and live in moderation, die, in Do you want to learn about individualistic trees and community-minded trees?

Parental trees and teenager trees who, if their caretakers aren't around to facilitate their growth and educate them, grow too much too fast and, because they don't learn how to take care of themselves and live in moderation, die, in tree years, quite young. Wohlleben clearly has a great admiration and respect for trees and lovingly schools us about the dangers of cutting down the older trees in forests and clearcutting old growth forests with the mistaken notion that replanting a community of all young trees is good and fine and that these young trees are healthier than a multigenerational community of trees anyway.

People in certain places seem to have similarly mistaken notions about human communities. I could offer a few other human analogies, but I'll leave it to your imagination. Wohlleben goes to great lengths to show his readers how similar trees and humans are and for this some people criticize him. Here is rough and minimalistic recapitulation: Trees are social; they have parent-child relationships; they need sleep and suffer when artificial lights mess up their circadian rhythms ; they warn each other when danger is near and protect themselves and each other when attacked; they communicate in collaboration with fungus in a way that can be compared to a "world wide web" though more of a forest-wide web, and, well, in collaboration with fungus; their sap is similar to blood; they don't like getting bitten by beetles or infested by lice Here is a great Ted Talk by one of the early researchers of tree community behavior https: And here is an article about Wohlleben with a video interview: The book is equal parts optimistic and disheartening.

It is especially hard to read in the new batman villain Trump era where a few wealthy people are gleefully preparing to devastate any community they can get their sick and sinister paws on for the sake of accruing even more money and power in a surprisingly deep and compassionate and thankfully funny conversation between Sarah Silverman and Bernie Sanders, they described this behavior as addictive. A sickness in which destructive people will stop at nothing to accrue more wealth like they think the world is a big casino and they're winning the jackpot.

Only what they are actually doing is profound and catastrophic harm. One of my favorite segments of the book talks about ideal environmental conditions for different trees and ways various species have adapted to thrive in different weather conditions and how they can work to create microclimates that enhance their living conditions and quality of life.

And also how there is a lot of genetic diversity within one species of tree depending on where it is growing depending on the climate and community, etc. I listened to this book on audio and the narration was quite good. It was available through my library as a digital audio book.

I'm trying to get in the habit of taking better notes when I'm reading, and especially while listening, I'm trying to start a tradition of drawing little comics as a way of taking notes and keep track of interesting moments and overarching themes. The fourth one I don't quite remember what it was I was getting at. Though according to this article maybe it's just because they play starring roles in the book: Elm, pine, willow, yew, and alders play minor supporting roles. I suspect I'd have gotten more out of this book if I'd read it instead of listening to it.

Though I've always loved trees and found them calming, the author's detailed information about different aspects of trees has changed the way I look at them, and I'm unlikely to continue to take them for granted. Just a few pages into the Hidden Life of Trees by forester Peter Wohlleben, the first thing that strikes anyone who picked the book up believing it would be an antidote to that 'HumanAll-too-human' feeling that one gets with having too many human motives and fantasies underpinning the stories one reads, is that it just ISN'T.

Apparently, there are arboreal denizens who talk to each other - both small talk and essential talk, make plans together - plans of procreation and family-building Just a few pages into the Hidden Life of Trees by forester Peter Wohlleben, the first thing that strikes anyone who picked the book up believing it would be an antidote to that 'HumanAll-too-human' feeling that one gets with having too many human motives and fantasies underpinning the stories one reads, is that it just ISN'T. Apparently, there are arboreal denizens who talk to each other - both small talk and essential talk, make plans together - plans of procreation and family-building included, strategize together against pests - ranging from minor warding-off strategies to full-fledged chemical warfare and intricately planned assassinations, offer favorable turf to members of the same tribe and hostile ones to those of another, nurse their babies and sick, steal and flaunt their wealth and what not.

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