Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast
This podcast explores the natural and human history of the Canadian Rockies as well as its attractions and culture. We'll look at the ecology and wildlife as well as the unique plants and birds that make the Canadian Rockies home. Looking back through our history we will share the stories behind the scenery. This is the place for all things Rockies.Podcasts
089 Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Published: July 2, 2021, 5:54 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 1 second
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088 Bringing nature closer when you can't go far.
Published: April 22, 2020, 9:28 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 2 seconds
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087 Ice Battleships and Alberta's Connection to WWII's Battle of the Atlantic.
Published: March 15, 2020, 7:08 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds
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086 Dangers of the Insect Apocalypse
Published: Feb. 26, 2020, 4:33 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds
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085 Looking at the 25th anniversary of the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone
Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 7:06 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 59 seconds
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084 Feeding Birds Ethically and Effectively
Published: Jan. 24, 2020, 6:46 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 36 seconds
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083 The Real Story Behind the Movie The Revenant
Published: Jan. 14, 2020, 11:55 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 20 seconds
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082 We're one of the top 15 podcasts on Ecology, and grizzlies digging up the high country
Published: Dec. 21, 2019, 7:54 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 28 seconds
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081 Overtourism in Canada's Mountain National Parks
Published: June 13, 2019, 4:43 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 4 seconds
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080 Conserving caribou by blaming carnivores and ancient human footprints lead the way to a new coastal migration theory
Published: May 30, 2019, 4:07 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 52 seconds
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079 season of the crocus, earlier blooming is stressing bird populations and early berries for bears may not be a good thing.
Published: April 25, 2019, 5:05 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 48 seconds
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078 Examining a new Fire Management Plan for Banff, Yoho, and Kootenay National Parks and Game of Thrones connections in western Canada
Published: April 17, 2019, 10:40 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 31 seconds
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077 Wolverines in the mountain west, and tick season is upon us
Published: April 10, 2019, 1:55 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 53 seconds
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076 New report shows Canada warming up twice as fast as most of the world, a look a the biggest, the cuddliest, and the most frightening T. Rex's, and the day the world ended for the dinosaurs.
Published: April 4, 2019, 6:51 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 24 seconds
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075 Grizzly bears emerge from their winter dens, and Montana's Glacier National Park is losing its glaciers
Published: April 1, 2019, 12:09 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 35 seconds
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074 Keepiing Alberta Rat Free, and how adding one non-native fish to Yellowstone caused a food web to collapse
Published: March 21, 2019, 3:18 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 44 seconds
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073 Scientific mysteries around ancient pictographs in Grotto Canyon, and how winters with lower snowpacks will effect local wildlife.
Published: March 13, 2019, 5:24 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 58 seconds
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072 Saying goodbye to the father of Global warming, Canmore's Nuclear Bunker, New Train Service to the Mountains, and watching for the bears to emerge
Published: March 7, 2019, 4:21 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 31 seconds
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071 Smoke melts glaciers, and winter wildlife survival strategies
Published: Feb. 27, 2019, 7:20 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 31 seconds
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070 Polar bears and climate change denial, Alberta's mountains see the highest temperature increases, and did European contact in the New World cause the Little Ice Age
Published: Feb. 19, 2019, 5:34 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 52 seconds
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069 Looking at why elk keep their antlers througout the winter, and forest fires in California and British Columbia
Published: Nov. 25, 2018, 8:56 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 19 seconds
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068 Fire ecology in western Canada with fire expert Cliff White.
Published: Sept. 10, 2018, 3:56 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 25 seconds
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067 Mapping the Expansion of Coyotes, Reintroduced Bison Test Their Boundaries, and Time to Stop Making Rock Sculptures
Published: Aug. 29, 2018, 2:06 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 13 seconds
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066 Finally, free roaming bison in Banff, and bear safety during buffaloberry season.
Published: Aug. 4, 2018, 1:55 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 25 seconds
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065 The buffaloberries are back, and a new report on Coexisting with Wildlife in the Bow Valley
Published: July 22, 2018, 4:18 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 5 seconds
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064 The story of Crowfoot wraps up, and new decisions on development in the Bow Valley
Published: July 12, 2018, 8:50 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 42 seconds
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063 New Reviews, Crowfoot gets to know the Mounties, and the secret lives of the Yellow Ladyslipper Orchid
Published: June 28, 2018, 11:58 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 29 seconds
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062 The Life of Chief Crowfoot of the Blackfoot, and bears along the train tracks
Published: June 18, 2018, 5:56 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 19 seconds
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061 Sulphur Storms, Mismatched Colours, and Famous Filming Locations
Published: May 30, 2018, 4:30 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 43 seconds
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060 Tricking bumblebees and a renewed focus on ecological integrity in Canada's national parks
Published: May 20, 2018, 6:16 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 58 seconds
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059 Local photographers, natural orchestras, Whirling disease, bear updates, and natural economics
Published: April 26, 2018, 9:48 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 28 seconds
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058 Time to clean up the bird feeders, bobcats be coming, and the bears are back.
Published: April 13, 2018, 7:52 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 25 seconds
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057 New Burgess fossils, and red fox return to the Rockies, episode 57 of the Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast 057 New Burgess fossils, and red fox return to the Rockies, episode 57 of the Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast 057 New Burgess fossils, an
Published: April 2, 2018, 5:30 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 26 seconds
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056 New Super Berry, what's in a name, and ecological trap
Published: March 21, 2018, 5:17 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 28 seconds
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055 Advice from Edward Abbey, bison updates, and woodpecker headaches
Published: March 9, 2018, 6:27 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 45 seconds
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054 Frozen feet at Christmas, new wolf pack forming, 10 New Year Resolutions, and what determines success in Grizzly translocations
Published: Jan. 15, 2018, 1:18 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds
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053 David Thompson heads west, and do mountain pine beetles increase the risk of forest fires?
Published: Dec. 21, 2017, 6:02 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 2 seconds
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052 David Thompson quits the Hudson's Bay Company, and what's up with climate science deniers?
Published: Dec. 7, 2017, 9:49 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 58 seconds
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051 Melting Glaciers, and David Thompson's Legacy Begins
Published: Dec. 1, 2017, 7:36 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 44 seconds
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050 New frontiers for wildlife crossings, and the scourge of scurvy
Published: Nov. 26, 2017, 12:15 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 30 seconds
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049 A look at polar bear ecology, cougars that aren't solitary and does shooting problem bears work
Published: Nov. 16, 2017, 5:40 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 25 seconds
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048 Pikas struggling with warming climates, Neanderthal medicine, and mining gravel river beds
Published: Oct. 20, 2017, 5:58 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds
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047 Canada's 150th birthday and its effects on visitation to the Mountain Parks an Ode to Bear 148, and interviews with several candidates.
Published: Oct. 13, 2017, 1:23 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 4 seconds
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046 Bears and Trains and the Cariboo Goldrush becomes a Bonanza
Published: Oct. 6, 2017, 11:28 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds
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045 Wolves help grizzlies by killing elk, the Trans Canada Trail is complete, the Jasper to Columbia Icefields trail falls into limbo and gold rushes in British Columbia
Published: Sept. 29, 2017, 1:45 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 34 seconds
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044 Flying giraffes and loving the mountains to death
Published: Sept. 15, 2017, 4:52 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 44 seconds
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043 Save a caribou, kill a moose, the burgess shales and fire updates on the mountain west
Published: Sept. 6, 2017, 6:01 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 16 seconds
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042 Grizzlies choose berries over salmon, and the Canadian Last Spike
Published: Aug. 31, 2017, 10:25 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 3 seconds
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041 Flying Squirrels, Forest Fire Records and Van Horne Rescues the CPR
Published: Aug. 23, 2017, 2:20 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 43 seconds
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040 Pine beetles bring fire fears and Major A.B. Rogers surveys through the western Mountains, episode 040 of the Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast
Published: Aug. 16, 2017, 2:22 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 23 seconds
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039 The bear bites back and Hells Bells Rogers
Published: Aug. 10, 2017, 5:23 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 26 seconds
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038 Farewell to Grizzly 148, Walter Moberly's Surveys, Solar Eclipses and Bird-eating Deer
Published: Aug. 3, 2017, 3:24 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds
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037 Buffaloberry Primer, ancient archaeological site, a national dream begins, golden eagle migrations, and B.C. decides to privatize wildlife management
Published: July 29, 2017, 12:28 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 33 seconds
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036 Expanding Forest Fires, Bear 148 Gets One More Chance and No National Bird for Canada
Published: July 19, 2017, 7 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 53 seconds
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035 Flames across the border
Published: July 12, 2017, 1:32 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 32 seconds
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034 Bear Spray containers, Wildlife overpasses, Bear 148 in trouble, new bear research methods and Waterton Park's namesake
Published: July 9, 2017, 6:27 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 32 seconds
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033 Bulletproof elk, exploding bear spray and drones in the high country
Published: June 29, 2017, 12:31 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 27 seconds
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032 Microburst Mayhem and Climate Science in Mountain Landscapes
Published: June 22, 2017, 3:19 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 6 seconds
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031 Changing western climates and the importance of science in the post-truth Trumpocene
Published: June 15, 2017, 1:06 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 19 seconds
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030 Grizzlies Meet Bison and new Dino Discoveries
Published: June 9, 2017, 10:03 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 21 seconds
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029 Stampede foods, draining lakes, lost historic sites and summer crowds
Published: May 28, 2017, 7:23 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 49 seconds
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028 Franklin Artifacts, Bear 148's Wanderings and B.C.'s Interior Rainforest
Published: May 20, 2017, 9:49 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds
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027 Bison babies, conservation wins and new transportation options for the mountains
Published: May 6, 2017, 5:46 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 30 seconds
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026 Parks Canada Takes its Lumps
Published: April 24, 2017, 4:58 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 19 seconds
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025 Icefields Chalet upgrades, Mount Edith Cavell permits and going Batty
Published: April 19, 2017, 6:10 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 19 seconds
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024 Bow Valley Wildlife Corridors vs Developers
Published: April 11, 2017, 7:35 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 58 seconds
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023 Wolves and Ravens, The Boss Awakens, Icefields Bike Trail, and Winter Olympics 2026
Published: March 29, 2017, 4:33 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 45 seconds
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022 Grizzly Reintroduction to the North Cascades, North America's earliest bison, the Rocky Mountain Pledge and people using wildlife corridors
Published: March 20, 2017, 1:56 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 59 seconds
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021 Bison Homecoming
Published: March 8, 2017, 6:26 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 6 seconds
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020 Castle Park Announcement, Whirling Disease Updates, Shocking Grizzly Stories and Frigid Pine Beetles
Published: Feb. 23, 2017, 5:09 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 32 seconds
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019 Keeping Wolves Safe, Returning Bison, and new research into Grizzlies
Published: Feb. 11, 2017, 12:08 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 5 seconds
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018 Summer Reservations, Radium Expansion, Formation of the Rockies and Canadian Towns worth Visiting
Published: Jan. 24, 2017, 9:19 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 59 seconds
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017 2017 Park Passes, Canada Rated a top tourism destination, Global Water Futures and Caribou in the Rockies
Published: Jan. 12, 2017, 7:57 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 14 seconds
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016 Winter Ticks, Winter Insect Survival and New Northward Migrations
Published: Dec. 8, 2016, 8:25 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 42 seconds
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015 Rutting Moose, Gravel Rivers and Mountains 101
Published: Nov. 30, 2016, 6:03 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds
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014 Canada's National Bird, Lake Louise World Cup Cancelled and Desperate Measures for Whirling Disease
Published: Nov. 18, 2016, 11:23 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 55 seconds
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013 Choosing Snowshoes, Summer Crowds and Super Moons
Published: Nov. 13, 2016, 10:10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 19 seconds
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012 Adapting to Winter and the History of Snowshoeing
Published: Nov. 4, 2016, 11:15 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 50 seconds
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011 Glacial History of the Athabasca Glacier
Published: Oct. 26, 2016, 4:59 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 42 seconds
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010 Glaciers in the Mountain West
Published: Oct. 7, 2016, 3:10 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 45 seconds
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009 Whirling Disease, Franklin's 2nd Ship Discovered, Banff Experience, Swimming Bears and Expired Bear Spray
Published: Sept. 30, 2016, 5:23 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 41 seconds
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008 Life in a Rut, Fall Hikes, Dark Skies and Canada's National Bird
Published: Sept. 13, 2016, 6:50 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes
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007 Berry Season Ends, Whirling Disease and Quagga Mussels and New Fossils Found
Published: Sept. 4, 2016, 7:44 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 6 seconds
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006 Unethical Photographers, Amazing Parks Dog and Handler Honoured, Book Reviews, ice Age Migration Dilemma, and Ground Squirrel Reflections
Published: Aug. 19, 2016, 12:12 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 17 seconds
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005 Oops, Out of Bear Spray, Park Improvements, Another Dead Wolf and Ground Squirrels in the Rockies
Published: Aug. 8, 2016, 9:56 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 35 seconds
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004 Bear Updates, Holiday Travel Tips, Jasper Berry Harvest and Wildlife Crossing Structures
Published: July 30, 2016, 5:54 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 53 seconds
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003 Citizen Science, Bear 148's Wanderings, Icefields Bike Trail and Book Review
Published: July 21, 2016, 6:28 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 30 seconds
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002 Mountain News, Stampede Food, and Shrinking Glaciers
Published: July 15, 2016, 7:50 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 43 seconds
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001 Buffaloberries and Bears, Banff signs and The Amazing Race
Published: July 9, 2016, 8:07 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 40 seconds
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