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1 <br />Kara Brewer: Yes. 2 <br /> 3 <br />LeAnne Brown: When exactly did you discover chestnuts? You said that you discovered them but when did 4 <br />you discover them? 5 <br /> 6 <br />Kara Brewer: So let’s see. We bought the property in March. We started and had gotten rid of the almond 7 <br />idea so it was probably September or summer 2015. 8 <br /> 9 <br />LeAnne Brown: Before the hearing? 10 <br /> 11 <br />Kara Brewer: Yes. 12 <br /> 13 <br />LeAnne Brown: How many acres are in your forestry management plan, do you know? 14 <br /> 15 <br />Kara Brewer: I can look. It’s right here. 16 <br /> 17 <br />Andy Petesch: It’s under tab 17. 18 <br /> 19 <br />Kara Brewer: So you’re looking specifically for the total number of acres? 20 <br /> 21 <br />LeAnne Brown: Yes, Ma’am. How many acres do you have in your forestry plan on your property? 22 <br /> 23 <br />Kara Brewer: It’s for the entire property and they divided it out separate. There’s area one and area two but 24 <br />I don’t… 25 <br /> 26 <br />LeAnne Brown: It’s, in fact, the size of your property, isn’t it? 27 <br /> 28 <br />Kara Brewer: Correct. 29 <br /> 30 <br />LeAnne Brown: So how does the barn fit into your forestry plan? Or the parking lot or the septic area that’s 31 <br />all cleared or the flower area that’s all cleared? How does that fit with the forestry plan that you’ve 32 <br />represented would cover the entirety of the acreage? 33 <br /> 34 <br />Kara Brewer: Right. So my choice with the forestry plan was to completely clear-cut, which I did not want to 35 <br />do or it was to leave some of the trees, which that is what I wanted to do. So, that’s what we ended up 36 <br />doing? 37 <br /> 38 <br />LeAnne Brown: But you can’t really have a forestry plan that covers the entirety of your acreage if you have 39 <br />a disturbed area of over two acres, not including your septic field and not including areas you cleared. Is 40 <br />that correct? 41 <br /> 42 <br />Kara Brewer: I’m not exactly sure what you mean. 43 <br /> 44 <br />LeAnne Brown: Alright. 45 <br /> 46 <br />Kara Brewer: I just opted not to clear-cut because I didn’t want to do that. 47 <br /> 48 <br />56