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LeAnne Brown: Ms. Carswell, I want to ask you just a couple of questions in follow up. First of all, your 1 special damages as a contiguous property owner next to the service road relates more to road location on 2 where the trees used to be than the loss of the trees, is that correct? 3 4 Gleta Carswell: That’s correct. 5 6 LeAnne Brown: And then, Mr. Petesch asked you an interesting question about your horses tolerance of 7 other rural sounds, like guns shots and that sort of thing, would you explain how a horse owner in a rural 8 area helps a horse learn to deal with those kinds of sounds? 9 10 Gleta Carswell: I’m so glad you asked. So what we did to get our horses used to the sound of gunshots is 11 we actually started out with lower caliber guns and to be fair Rene Quadt is the marksman, not me, so we 12 actually started out with lower caliber and we acclimated the horses to it and over time they’ve gotten used 13 to it. There are constantly gunshots out there. There’s not a weekend that goes by that there are not 14 gunshots so gunshots are something that horses hear a lot. What horses react to isn’t what they’re used to. 15 It’s the things that happen that they’re not used to that you can’t predict. So it’s the unpredictability that is 16 actually the most damaging thing when you have horses that are easily aroused. 17 18 Karen Barrows: I think Matt had a question. 19 20 Matt Hughes: I do. I just have a few questions. What do you do with your horses at night? 21 22 Gleta Carswell: They have what’s called an open run in shed. So they have shelter that they can go into if 23 they wish and if not they can wander around all night long. 24 25 Matt Hughes: But do you ever put them in stalls or anything? 26 27 Gleta Carswell: I do if the weather is bad or they’re injured or something likes that. But normally they have 28 free range of the pasture. 29 30 Matt Hughes: That’s all I have. 31 32 Karen Barrows: Any other questions? 33 34 Barry Katz: I have a question. Just so I understand, to clarify, we’re listening to you describing the 35 circumstance. We’ve established that you have standing. Is that the whole purpose? 36 37 LeAnne Brown: Yes, that’s the purpose of the first line of questioning I have of all the number. 38 39 Barry Katz: Ok, fine. So we’ve established that you have standing and I assume you may challenge 40 whether they have standing or not. It’s one of those things. Ok, so that’s what we’re doing? 41 42 LeAnne Brown: That’s what we’re doing first, yes. 43 Barry Katz: Ok. 44 45 Karen Barrows: No further questions for Ms. Carswell? 46 47 Gleta Carswell: Thank you. 48 14