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Then I look at the destruction. What were they talking about in California today? The concrete jungle, you know. And they wonder why it's hot in that country, you know? It's scary. It's scary because nobody's replacing stuff. Nobody's replanting. You know, I found out that, like, for a Cottonwood Tree, its tree is growing big. But if you cut, like, four of the branches off, stuck’em in the ground, that they would take. I had a girl, a neighbor in Crow Creek… didn't have any trees around her. And, you know, there wasn't any plan for any program to put trees up. But the government cut down a bunch of cottonwoods that were growing in a ditch. So, she ran down there and took a bunch of them branches and put them in around her house. Today, they're full-grown trees, you know. My husband went and got some post ash wood and he put in a yard. He's always putting fixing fence around the house… always fencing me in. Here, one of them trees started growing and started getting branches. And I thought that was really neat… thought he was going to leave it there. And here he went and cut all the branches off. You just killed it. But I can't see why there has to be so much destruction. And I can't understand why they're still letting people in when you look at the space and what they've done to the country.