and commissioners, from ted kiplin who is in my opinion, one of the best tree people in the bay area. and so i refer you to that. and i submitted it. and i want to start with the first tree, on gonzales, 605. here it is. photo. >> well, okay. there is the photo. and i am happy if my testimony is not witness enough to contact ted and have him come in. and it was very expensive to get him, and to come in it would have been another 500. and i thought that i could prevent it. >> with 79 percent of all of the large trees in the city, being removed, i think that everything should be done to preserve the trees that we have. replanting it will not bring these trees back. ted gives 70 percent chance that this tree can be saved. ten to 15 years can be gotten out of it. there are trees in golden gate park that are 100 years old. we agree that it has needles and it has (inaudible) but ted has recommended using agrefars and petra bark to get the immunity of the trees up. as mr. roberts said the real problem is that park merced has drawn all water from these large trees, we are condemning them to a