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Eagles in winterHumane Groundbreaking held Association for medical Bitter Root Three Mile Community Centercenter open
celebrates new shelter, 50th anniversary Community Cooks’ Gardens - a family affair college speech, occupa-
by Victoria by Victoria Howell Howell
shelter. $140,000. a levy, so this won’t any tional andhave physical According The park additional impact on people’s therapy services – It’s been a long time to Colleen board made property taxes. including therapy coming, but the new Three Schmiedeke, the decision In addition to thea loan, the Bitterroot Health Mile Community Center is up who serves on to take out a project was paid for by pool – plus imaging held a groundbreakby Michael Howell and cut the ribbon at last week’sthe and running. Located at 4433 both the park loan to finish Three Community and lab services. ceremony, saidMile concerning the Senior ing last Wednesday Sunnyside Cemetery Road, board and the the project. Center (the official name) Bishop said “It organization’s 50 years of service, An openmedical house celebration was for its new theby center is on Howell the east side community She said they which raised over $80,000 Victoria they hope to have held last week at the Bitter Root was started by a bunch of little old complex that will beThe build- center board, of Lone Rock Park. worked with through community picnics, ladies in 1972 and it’s still run by a Humane Association’s (BRHA) new the facility open ing contains a large they Farmers State rummage sales, bingo nights built just north of meeting Joel Schnackel is on something of a started renaisanimal shelter located Fairgrounds bunch of little old ladies.” room, a warming a working Bank to keep and donations fromof commuby spring 2023, Stevensville at People the kitchen, sance man. who have lived in theon Butts, President of the Road in Hamilton. The event served state-of-the-art audio visual this ain 2012 their loan Kathienity members. Other major and that they plan corner of Kootenai valley awhile and enjoy gourmet cooking will double purpose. It included a ribbon Board, said, “This organization has system, and a gorgeous view and incorpopayments contributors were the Three on continuing to remember Schnackel as the chef/owner at Creek and public forum of the Road Bitterroot Mountains tothe rated reasonable. Mile FireAway District, the Lone cutting ceremony in honor of new in 2014. come such a long since it was expand Food in Stevensville, Hwy 93. Fetish the west. Shewas saidone the of Those payRock for Park andago. theservices. Rapp candidates started about 50 years Ifor feelthe aFamfacility, including tours of the which whole “We’re bringing the the first restaurants to introduce American The building is now home total cost is ments come ily Foundation. John Bishop, Valley building, and anBitarray of food and huge sense of Bitterroot responsibility to Comhonor fusion cuisine to the valley. care to the patients, to the senior center and the approximateout of park Schmiedeke said there munity board terroot those who have come College before us and ” drink inHealth honorCEO, of the organization’s Weekend Backpack Program ly $500,000. taxes that are were many volunteers who Others may know Schnackel as a musician he said. of as trustees bewe held make it as good it can will be as set 50ththat birthday. said Marcus that serves Lone Rock When already being helped on theLois project, and with an abiding loveSchool. oft music. He could be HedgeApril 13 at The private non-profi organization the course for Wednesday, the next 50 years.” Daly Hospital had The surrounding park conSchmiedeke assessed, TMCSC received reduced found his stand-up in local jazz peth, chair of the McCormack said that theBitterroot was fisoccer rst playing organized in 1972. Inbass 1984, p.m. at the tains and baseball “got really Schmiedeke prices6 from contractors. The combosMargarite or sitting in at more classical music Three Mile Community Senior Center board members, l to r, Colorganization conducted a successful Countess Bessenyey, the College UM, 103 S. 9thlahospital board, fields, tennis and volleyball involved,” the is proud that general contractor donated venues, like the MissoulaDaly, Symphony. leen Schmiedeke, Joyce Pando and Wendy Audiss in front of the fundraising campaign to fund the new granddaughter ofpath, Marcus Street, Hamilton. said this project courts, a walking a play- gave group had they didn’t Schnackel left the valley 20 years See the CENTER, new community center at Lone Rock Park. Photo by V. Howell. construction but Make then Covid-19 the BRHA on Fairgrounds Road an informed ground andland a covered picnic about raised about have to run has been four page years3 Bitterroot Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-bound as Bitago in pursuit of other ventures. Now he’s with a 99-year lease. Six years later, pandemic hit and construction costs decision. hear in theCome works, butthe terthree Root Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon in 2020 withdeeded a wife and skyrocketed. As a result, the group in back, 1990,returning the Bessenyey estate candidates’ positions John Bishop, pictured from left, leads a gathering people involved in the there were some the opening of the new animalfifth shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michaelof Howell. andorganization together theywhere are divingcelebrating into had to take out a mortgage finish thechildren, land to the and vision forto BVCC. due to the Bitterroot project in a ceremonial groundbreaking. The facilityStevedelays greenhouse that his mother on the property that hadHealth housedbuilding the Sue McCormack, who serves on thethe current shelterbusiness is located. The Fullerton will be See SHELTER, page pandemic. She said2 Margie Cook and hisan aunt shelter since 1984. theat organization’s of directors will be built on land located the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Road and Hwy 93the moderator. new building replaces oldCharlene building Riggle their vision isthe that have been operating in Hamilton for more just north of the Stevensville Junction. The event is sponby Nathan Boddy cumstances, having She adds that thans 25 years. the Stevensville encountered people most sored by important the BVCC Cooks’ (“s apostrophe” because thereStaub, are a driving Christine falling “quality, victim to mail way to combat facility will besuch more Darby, Victor and Corvallis, as well as Foundation. been providing at least two Cooks involved)force Gardens, at thethe Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse is for people of a “medical center” rather than just a accessible, personalized S. 1st As a certified shipto ask Greenhouse, on Golf Course901 Road in Street, Ham- was recently clinic. She also said thatquestions Marcus Daly The new 12-acre campus will health fordepot 90 years. presented with a Certificate of care” ping for FedEx, and start conilton is a growing concern. The three genMurphy. Shethe led the Hospital, which is a critical access provide primary, care, urgent care and In recent years, they Appreciation by Mayor Domithe Boxxe Shoppe versation with those commissioners through erations of family members and loyal staff hospital, was recently rated #4byinlove. the specialty services. Two physicians have nic Farrenkopf and Hamilton is legally justified to you know and have been taking steps to a lengthy fund fund there have over 100 years of experibyworking Victoria Howell me like a ton of It was incorrectly Police Chief Stephen Snavely. open package which doesn’t by Staub theinnational rataccounting that, to sum already been hired, along with a nurse nation for quality invest in all theacommuence between them. bricks.” reported last week’s In his presentation to the City bears its shipping know the details it up, shows the county, ing agency, out of 351 similar facilities. practitioner, and two more doctors Numerous Bald Eagles have congregating in the Burnt area lately to feed onOverstreet carcasses. was Photos nities of Fork the Bitterroot, When it comes Cooks’ Gardens is open forbeen the season, Bitterroot Star that the Council on March 15th, Chief label. After following of what potential overall, doing very well by Michael by Victoria Howell are being recruited. There will also be he said, with clinics in to with Covid, GregonHowell. sent home from a sale clematis vines in progress. county’s Payment Inbut Snavely said that he wants the protocol, and doing victims are told, on its tax collections and The Bitterroot Overstreet has a Nathe hospital with Schnackel points out four varieties, with Lieu of Taxes (PILT) Hamilton Police Department so in the presence of she knows that over they showing revenues tional Forest (BNF) will The Cowboy Ball at the from Ravalli County message for flowers in you: varying shades oftoviolet, purple theprojections Forest Service “become more vocal about a witness, Staub was an oxygen tank. are, “often coached 50% of in host a public meeting Fairgrounds will be held February 12th. This is don’t andfool red.around! There are also lotsthe of healthy perengood things that happen able to uncover the He was home for to departments say they are shiplands were declining most while this Wednesday, March the tenth annual event and the way it’s shaping within the community.” Sharunfortunate contents two or three days. ping Overstreet, by Michael Howell nials and annuals. and thenlegal were replaced expenses havepapers only or 30th from 6 to 8 p.m. ing hishedepartment’s experiof the package: nearlyDuring that time, paperwork.” Other up, it’s going to be an event worthy of jubilee an attorney in water everything,” amounted toa23% of “We hand said, “so by Secure Rural Schools to share information ence with Ms. Staub was one $16,000 in cash, common tactics for and former council member, the public at the next meeting Halfway through celebration. projections due in large private practice in his oxygen level when the customer gets it, it doesn’t freak (SRS) funding. by Victoria Howell regarding the developsuch opportunity. which the customer scammers include the budget year, the part to job vacancies Rod Freeman is the chair of this year’s appears to be when the council considers Stevensville, was went down to 51, out.ofEvery plant is watered when it needs to continuing It was actually the ment a draft forest In early March, a customwas unwittingly send-from a normal of claiming totorepcounty’s performance that have yet be filled. event. Freeman is also the25% chair of the diagnosed with his efforts to teach the new the appointment of two addibe.” Fund, a Rodeo percentClimbing Management At the second regular er came to the Boxxe Shoppe ing to a scammer in resent the IRS or in is looking pretty good, One big savings was Committee, and the vice chair of the Fair Board, colon cancer in 99. “I jokingly say Schnackel said his expertise is withtoand the age Social of the annual forest Plan (CMP). virtual council mayor how local Chicago, tional council meeting of theThe two-member intending send a package Illinois.members. Security according to Ravalli the budgeted funds for which he’s been onby forNa12 years. A real estate February of 2021. that 51 ispeppers. brain with some hisjob, specialty is the second StaubSchnackel of the Boxxe Shoppe. Photo meeting will be held on vegetable side ofCouncil, things. They over 20 shouldJoel revenues, that was in government run.Schnackel He “We’ll doofour ” Christine said viastart FedEx. Administration. County CFO Klarryse the county’s share Stevensville Town on agent in forHamilton. 18 years here in the Bitterroot, and was also He wentSee through damage material.” Zoom. below for from seed, generation at theGibson family’s business, Cooks’ the Greenhouse, than Gardens, Boddy. varieties of tomatoes from hybridscommenter declining and then customer Sometimes they a frequent January 27, town clerk Jenelle Thewas in the Army for 21 years, his organizational and instructions and a link chemotherapy and But COVID-19 Schnackel, who currently works with his mother, aunt, and wife, is hoping that See COUNTY, and heirlooms to giant beefsteaks (Schnackreplaced by their SRSpage fund-10 seemed con- meetings will tell at council during Joan Mell, an attorney familiar the profile Berthoud the council andis Pink to el’s joinfavorite thetold meeting. Five fundraising skills, discipline, haveone been put to in late August he was was(one no joke. “It canwith the third generation, his three children of whom be seen behind of himthe in and and unOver the victims that a loved has tomato variety fused Berkeley ing. the last administration. In from Hamilton, wasgot recpotential victims, butuse wishes similar public meetings audience that she was having good as chair of the Cowboy Ball committee. told that the cancer so bad I felt the greenhouse), will want to take over familiar withof course ofthe herbusiness someday. Photo by Victoria landed in jail, that acontinues prize Tie-Dye). He also grows a huge variety Theor county that others withinFreeman the commucomment, Crews told ognized for stepping in (virtual) were heldthe in meet- the public said the committee hopes trouble streaming process, decade with has been won, butPILT a to feeraise needs had been eradicated. like I couldn’t peppers. This year he plans to offer packs of to receive funding nity would help her look out 2021. the council that those makto handle the prosecution $50,000 this year, for the expansion of the rodeo and Staub the Boxxe to be paid for release of the Overstreet had breathe, like I ings on the internet. She said hold an open house at Cooks’for Gardens later in season mixed spicy peppers. as much stuff of from $2.5 to $3 miltheir safety. Atthe least one that In addition to the “I plant became susShoppe, Staub funds. The scammers will ing public comment should caseload of Town Attorney bucking chutes. “They’re just getting old,” he said. surgery on October was being water the former YouTube chanat my house as possible,” said Schnackel, who lives next door lion annually. The SRS of the potential victims she opportunity to learn picious when haswhile now commonly use a getting legitimate “They need to be replaced. They’re banged address the mayor, not the Greg Overstreet he was 23, 2021 for ostomy boarded, or what aided wasSee a resident at a page local 12 tothey the business, I know what works best.” He’s planning to nel had was no“so longer funding for COOKS’, about and participate in recovered address, buton will be2022 readywas to up.facility Bucking stock can be hard metal.” removal, theof fidevelopnalhad set up considering I imagine audience. He also said, “This hospitalized, and then recov- water extended nursing and the process $450,000. working but they the customapproximately grab the package from a porch The 10th annual cowboy ball – which actually in the boarding to had be to be provided with a ride notand a question and answer” ering, from Covid-19. ing a climbing plan, atreatment new Facebook page.this How- er’sisage $60,000Mell in front door when it arrives. started 11 years agoorbut couldn’t be held last year to the bank as well as to the colon journey. like,” recalls week’scancer meeting will cov“It’s public comment.” did the work at no charge the session. particular cash, all of to “They always direct the ever, members of the public Boxxe Shoppe. due to the pandemic – has been upgraded this The day after that Overstreet. “This er the following agenda the had said previouswhich was to victim to send it, ‘no signature The of mayor the town. “I just wanted who had he tried to access the details “It’s common sense to me,” year. topics: surgery, was isfrauduwhen I realized transaction. being required,’” she adds. ly that he would be answering publicly thank Joan for helpThesays, Town of Stevensville recognized attorney Joan aMell, she pointing out that red Facebook page said it was not Unfortunate• Review overall “This is the first year we’ve ever done diagnosed with that I was not lently deThe Bank Secrecy Actfully questions from the public. ing me and helping the town, ” flags abound when seniors are center, for filling in while town attorney Greg Overstreet objectives and desired by Michael Howell things to see, a lot to learn and a lot of booths – many with associated activto support the costs of putting on the accessible. catered dinner,” said Freeman. Thebanks University COVID-19.Berthoud asked ly, it was not taking Covid manded from of 1970 requires to being scammed. “If a person Crews also said that they said Overstreet. outcomes of the public fun to be had. ities and games – most of the orgaevent and to underwrite the costs Montanawith Catering Service provide theofof had Covid-19.ofPictured Mell are, l towill Overstreet, for“I patience as she worked Staub’s first was obviously seniorseriously citizen enough. keep track ofr, withdrawals is 80also years old, and all of a sending approximately 160 youth to conversations It’s time once again to celebrate Besides setting up educational nizations involved donate funds should be prepared for some Desserts are provided by 4H members. time having members of $10,000 or more in order very weakened,” said through the issues. Mayorthey’re Steve dinner. Gibson, council Cindy Brown and coming into the members The Boxxe Shoppe’s new location • Provide an update the great outdoors! a lapse outdoor-themed summer encountered See page 2 sudden “interesting comments” Greg Overstreet talks about his recentfrom brush with death dueSTEVI, tothe commuOverstreet. “Itformer hit After Jim Crews, mayor bank to5withdraw $15,000, it Stacie Barker. by Victoria at 901 S. 1st Street in Hamilton. nity.See Seeacross COWBOY SURVIVING, page of a couple of years dueCovid. to thePhoto camps the BALL state.page The 4 by Photo Michael Howell Howell. such cirStaub is by Victoria Howell. See SCAMMERS, page 2 makes my ‘spidy’ sense tingle.” Seethe PLAN, page 2 Photo by Nathan Boddy. pandemic, Teller Wildlife number of kids and camps Refuge is once again hosting a varies from year to year. InapLast week the Ravalli County Commissioners Youth Conservation & Educaorder for a youth to receive proved adoption of a memorandum of understandtion Expo. It is a one-day event a summer campForce scholarship, ing with the Ravalli County DUI Task and scheduled for Howell Saturday, May 7 National Forest 1987 Forest she or he must visitThe at least Agency. letter the commissioners statedInstituteProtection aspen and whitebark pine; MAPS Media to produce a video designed by Michael at which almost every non-prof- Plan. 12 of the booths at the Expo. to help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavthat “Ravalli County objects contains recommendations manage timber to provide it organization, local, state and They can then whichfor ior. impacts to concerning the select Draft SEIS forest products and jobs; and to unmitigated A new record of decision The deadline closed on if it would be possible Victoria Howell federal agency that has anything summer camp they are interThe DUI Task Force approved the creation of year, the facility took in just under bybyVictoria Howell the Gold Butterfly. Concerncounty was issued 17,wouldretain old growthwith status all to put envelopes onDecember January 18,conservation, forHowell filing objecbydo Victoria hison property which in effect theinhighway, whichowned/maintained is aastate addressed when private land was to with wildlife ested in the attending by putting Mischief$240,000 Room lastand May and commissioners spent every penny. roads heavy theowner scopein ofthat the analysis treatment to 2021 accompanied by a to Draft doors and Dominic Farrenshutthen off access Stevensville Riverunits. According highway, because nowfrom you’re goingequipment to on it. sold toproject aing new and Fish, Wildlife or outdoor recreation, takes all the their name camp’s signed off The involved the creation tions to the Draft SupplemenJasmin Shinn,director founder and There are no paid employees; it’s an all-of kopf, put valentine cards The activities Stevensville Town Counain 20-acre park on the east bank have release two accesses forlogging trucksatrucks, pulling and Parks got involved. The once-prithe letter quotes the Bittera Forest Service press and mostly, SEIS thatPark, provides a site-spepart. drawing at the set of easily accessible items that hadregistration secret hiding tal Environmental Statement volunteer organization. ButtoShinn said executive director of 1 Horse atThe Sapphire them. Farrenkopf cil was split onLutheran whether just toreally the north of the private piece ofthe boats, and you’vebut just come out to, of the vate piece now belongs the state aim, according toto accept table. The winners are rancompartments where someone could stash some root Forest Plan’s Forest-wide not limited the impacts cific forest plan amendment about 90% of proposed (Draft SEIS) for the Gold A Time Draft Horse it costs about $200 perfishing month toend feed Homes in Hamilton, isRescue liked the idea.property. He askedCrews contacted the county aAtsmall piece of park land near the Stevi Wyean at 45 miles per hour - there developed access site. Education Program Director domly drawn atThe the drugs or hide aand small of whiskey. aim was to Willow Creek Road. Due tois aflask Management Wildlife Re-of treatment areas are within defining old-growth stanButterfly Project, a Bitterroot these “gentle giants.” Then there are facility in Corvallis, got a nice asking the bridge, community students Stevensville an item an that was at schools and negotiated the donation of the are going to be accidents there.” Ithe think it’sevent. [the piecetoon to provide parents“But a learning opportunity seethe the Nicole Ballard, is to provide Expo source Objective “Maintain area designated for insect and financial limitadards. Some objections to securing the boost lastForest week when she was veterinary bills, therapy, training, and to send his athat and daycares to make National project considered atresidents the March 24th council land on the west, potential Mayorand Steve resource Gibson said he didn’t west] still a viable piece ofto for the various ways in which any young person can interactive outdoor experience Tom Powers, aland key hide orgaLast year lopes. the disease sufficient old-growth habitat tions, Ravalli County would decision were received because of the little love this special envelopes presented with aValencheck for $7500 associated costs tofirst rehabilitate meeting. The land ownership willnew now river and access pending outcometreatment of see what use theenveland is to the town. “Iother city tofrom have, whether or not you put their substance use casual inspections. that gives youth conservation nizer of the Expo, said includes nearly 13,000 acres lopes were so full they The project is now tine’s Day. decorate them for each revert to the county. The 1.52-acre the access dispute. only see a liability,” said Gibson. money into developing it,” said Motnot be able to accommodate on suitable timberland to by the January 18 deadline dense pockets of dead and dythese horses. When they’re fi nally ready from representatives of JCCS, an Glenda Wiles, Director of the DUI Task Force, message, information about after being shut down for a of commercial and non-comhad to be emptied more really popular, and About years resident. people piece, whichfour is located adjacent tomostly the Then Council member Marilyn Wolff Michaelson said he looked upwhat the for ley. “There are so many cars out there, said she tells parents is, “If you don’t look, accounting fi rm with a branch adoption, most can be driven or the organizations and agencies couple of years due to the support viable populations ing trees. They claim the area the necessary maintenance having to do with the mercial treatment than once. growing every year. ago, a vegetative resident came drop offsaid Bitterroot on the northwest side had apotenreal problem with old minutes found that the land think can be used for parking. then younor don’t If it you don’t see, then you don’t working to River protect these values, pandemic they thought itBut was ridden, and some just become “pasture located in Hamilton. Part of could the logging of old-growth dependent the project, theI see. of valenoldshe growth, is impacted by mountain pineandduring within a 55,000 acre area of to Farrenkopf to see tines to fill the enveof the bridge, was offered to the Town this piece of land. “It’s where two was donated on the condition that looking long term, if you have propSee VALENTINES, page 10 and at the same time engages time to re-group and start selection for awarding that gift tial impacts to wildlife and to pets.” See DUI, page rehabilitation of the road erty afteron the species. ” side The letter notes that10 Douglas-fir bark beetle, forest insafe, theRavalli Sapphire Mounin 2017 by County for use as a roads converge, the bankbeetle, is incrediit would be maintained and utilized west thethe river, them in responsible and up again. Heofsaid lastthen was online voting and according 1 Horse At A Time was established Draft SEIS limits scope dwarf mistletoe and the project is complete. Ravalli Willow Creek Road.I think there are potential river access site. bly steep… liability for western recreational purposes within five you havethe access to potentially consoltains eastbranch of Corvallis. fun outdoor and wildlife-related Expo in 2019 was thethe first by Shinn in 2018. She’s originally from to JCCS manager, Andrea of its environmental consespruce budworm damage. County objects to shifting Bitterroot National Forest During the tenure of former issues… It is the fastest part of the years. idate highway property into the Town conservation and recreational to beshe held indoors. It was The original proposal was Simmerman, 1 Horse At A Time Germany where grew up around mayor Jim Crews, owner of land channel and thethe deepest partAlthough of the in general Vickie Motley, park board memof Stevensville. think It’s something activities. The eventthe isof free and held atIFort Owen Ranch in financial burden of the project quences analysis to vegetation, officials have stated that The 2022 Youth Conservation & Education Expo is dedicated to the memory of Dale Burk. Burk was withdrawn in August 2020 horses. She’s always been a horse fan, was one of the topnortheast four vote at the river on the had channel. If you were to develop that ber, said that nothing had been done RDO Equipment Co. geared towards youth, but allside project mid-winter and 411 kids and the pileated woodpecker and is designed improve agreement with to Ravalli County and believe a man of words. Hetowas always ready to speak upthe andproposed speak out about the things he cared deeply after Friends theoff Bitterroot getters. passionate about attempted to of shut river access on for fishing, I would also see a problem because the access problem had been but she is especially STEVI, page 16 ages are welcome. With dozens adults wereSee counted passing about, which included just about everything. The land. The waters. All the animals. The forests. And 8571 Running W. Road pine marten. project, the Ravalli County it is contrary to current law forest resilience to natural That check followed in Slack the wake draft horses. She and her husband, a and Alliance for the Wild of booths surrounding the don’t forget mankind. There was one thread running through all these relationships that hemilitary always and existing agreements. ” “We and realize these old growth like fire, insects Commissioners expressed Missoula, MT 59808 retiree, their two children of a $25,000 gift in November Rockies filedwill suit See EXPO, page 2 Barn, there beclaiming plenty ofthe disturbances insisted on making explicit because it’s what binds them all together: ethics. species are listed in and disease; reduce sediconcern over impacts to Forest officials also received from Tractor Supply. relocated toindicator Montana and bought a 20406-549-4171 agency failed to use the best acre farm which Shinn said can support That sounds like a lot of the Forest Plan, but it is not county owned and maintained comments from Philip Strobel ment sources in the Willow available science in managing Presenting a check for $7500 from JCCS to Jasmin Shinn (second from left) of 1 Horse At RDOequipment.com money but, according to Shinn, Creek watershed; improve 20 horses. She currently roads, Willow Creek DirectorJCCS of the NEPAabout Branch clear whether there are other A Time Draft Horse Rescue were, l to r: especially Levi Clark, CPA, Andrea Simmerman, Branch elk habitat and didn’t comtaking care of draft horses is Office of the Regional Adminbull trout habitat; restore Road. Manager, and Will Ramsey, CPA. Also pictured is Tiny, the non-profit’s mascot and the ply with the definition of old an expensiveYproposition. Last CO.COM including meadows, RESCUE, page 65 See See GOLD, page •FREEbyESTIMATES INTime. THE BITTERROOT VALLEY• OURH OMEIMPROVEMENThabitat istrator In a At letter to the Forest first horse that was rescued 1 Horse A Photo by Victoria Howell. of the Environmental
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