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ironwood trees. Our site will be to the right of the electric utility pole, behind it. So going into that, so it will help you visualize what Mr. Terry is proposing for the landscaped plan. GRAHAM: And that’s looking like towards Mauna Kea Mountain maybe from the highway? METTLER: Yes. GRAHAM: Thank you. SIRACUSA: Question. Because that photograph is all silhouette, I cannot tell, no, not that, the one you were just holding up, I can’t tell whether those ironwood trees behind the utility pole are behind it or in front of it. METTLER: In front of it. SIRACUSA: Okay. METTLER: Okay. And then also I have another view here. Okay, great. So the pole we’re looking at will be coming up right around here. This is, the pole that you’re seeing here is right here. Okay, so that gives you a visual as if you were driving from Kona to Hilo. Okay. TERRY: Okay. This plan is included in the packet that we distributed to you this morning. I’ve blown it up to a large size so it will be readable for the meeting today. To orient you, this is Hawaii Belt Road here. Access easement is here to the site where the antenna will be located. There is a small building proposed here for equipment, an enclosure; and we’ve indicated a landscaped plan around the facility that we’d like to present to you today that we think will work really well on this environment. A couple things about plants in this area and the problem with, you know, mitigating the visual impact of the tower -. It is certainly possible to find trees that at maturity reach 100 feet mature height in this area. There’s a lot of documentation out there that supports that trees can, in fact, reach that height out here. And the tree that we would like to propose is a type of eucalyptus that’s called a swamp mahogany. The native environment of this tree is it’s sort of a dry-wet swamp environment. So it likes wet conditions, which this area certainly is a damp climate, but also is drought tolerant because the place that this tree comes from typically is subject to some drying out periods. So these trees are adapted to this climate but they won’t die during a dry period; and that’s very important in a site like this, especially when it’s so remote. So we’re very confident that these trees, you know, would work really well out here. In addition to that we would like to propose mixing in some ironwood trees; and Danette had shown, this board shows some of the ironwood trees that are there now. There are a lot of ironwoods along the roadway frontage there. And so we think by adding some ironwood trees in with the mahogany we’ll get a little bit more of a natural feel to the screening. And I think that’s very important because in a situation like this there’s a danger of surrounding something and probably making more of a visual element of it than it really needs to be. We want it to blend in with the surroundings. So EXHIBIT A 6