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July 9, 2026

Public Land Sales, Exchanges, and Transfers, Explained

America’s public lands belong to all Americans and support our nation’s hunting, fishing, and conservation heritage. Here’s how land sales, exchanges, and transfers work – and how TRCP evaluates them, guided by transparency, sound science, and accountability to the public. 

At TRCP, we believe America’s public lands are one of our nation’s greatest conservation success stories – providing unmatched hunting, fishing, and outdoor recreation opportunities – but from time to time, these lands become the subject of sales, exchanges, or transfers out of federal ownership, often to meet community, infrastructure, or land management needs. Understanding what these transactions mean, and how to evaluate them, is the first step for hunters and anglers who want a voice in the outcome. Below, we break down how land transactions occur, why they happen and walk through the four questions TRCP asks before taking a position on any proposal. 

Let’s Start With a Few Definitions 

Not all public land proposals are the same. Understanding the type of transaction – and the process behind it – is the first step to understanding how TRCP evaluates these proposals. 

Most transactions fall into one of two categories: 

  • Exchange: A land exchange swaps federal land for non-federal land. These transactions are often used to consolidate fragmented parcels, improve public access, protect important fish and wildlife habitat, or make land management more efficient. 

Either a disposal or an exchange can happen through one of two processes: 

  • Administrative: A federal land agency, such as the BLM or the Forest Service, carries out the transaction under its existing statutory authority. 
  • Congressionally Directed: Congress authorizes or directs the transaction through legislation. These bills may involve individual parcels, community infrastructure needs, Tribal land transfers, boundary adjustments, conservation exchanges, or broader land disposal proposals. 

All these tools have existed for decades and continue to play an important role in public land management. Regardless of its path, the question isn’t whether these transactions should ever occur, but whether each one truly serves the public interest and, protects the values that make America’s public lands so important. 

From Disposal to Stewardship 

America’s approach to public lands has changed over time. During the nation’s early history, the federal government held more than 1.8 billion acres of public domain. Much of that land was conveyed to states, railroads, homesteaders, and private owners to support westward expansion, settlement, and economic development.  

By the 1970s, however, the country’s priorities had changed. As communities grew and Americans increasingly valued outdoor recreation, wildlife habitat, and clean water, Congress adopted the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) in 1976. FLPMA fundamentally shifted federal policy from one that generally favored disposing of public lands to one that generally favors retaining them in federal ownership unless disposal serves important public objectives and follows a transparent public process.  

FLPMA did not eliminate public land sales or exchanges. Congress intentionally preserved these authorities in limited circumstances for the purpose of community benefit and to create improvements to public land management.  

Not Every Acre Is the Same 

Hunters and anglers understand that not every federal parcel provides the same conservation, recreational, or community value. Some parcels may be appropriate for disposal when they are isolated, difficult to manage, or needed to support growing communities and where disposal serves the public interest.  

Technology has changed how we value public lands, however, and acreage alone rarely tells the full story. 

When FLPMA was enacted in 1976, many small federal parcels were difficult to locate, access, and fully appreciate. Today, GPS technology and digital mapping platforms allow hunters and anglers to easily locate and navigate small parcels that provide outstanding habitat and recreation values  or provide access to larger public landscapes. A forty-acre parcel that once appeared insignificant may now unlock thousands of acres of public access, hold big bucks during the rut, or protect a critical stretch of stream. 

How TRCP Evaluates Disposal and Exchange Proposals 

At TRCP, we do not start from the assumption that a proposal is automatically acceptable or unacceptable. We evaluate each one on its own merits, guided by four simple questions. 

1. Does it provide a clear public benefit? 

Any proposal should demonstrate a lasting public benefit and should not be sold to primarily generate revenue or reduce the federal estate. Done right, land sales or exchanges could help communities address infrastructure needs, resolve long-standing boundary issues, or improve management efficiency and access. It’s important to ensure those benefits are clearly demonstrated in any proposal. 

2. Does it safeguard or improve hunting, fishing, access, and fish and wildlife habitat? 

Public lands support some of the finest hunting and fishing opportunities in the world. At TRCP, we know that some public lands contain irreplaceable access points and/or fish and wildlife habitat. Those lands provide benefits that extend far beyond their acreage and should remain in public ownership whenever possible. Conversely, proposals that reduce public access, eliminate hunting and fishing opportunities, or diminish the outdoor experience warrant significant concern.  

3. Was the proposal developed through a transparent public process? 

Because these lands belong to all Americans, decisions about their future should not occur behind closed doors. Meaningful public involvement produces better decisions and builds public trust. 

4. Will conservation continue to benefit? 

When land is sold, Americans shouldn’t lose that asset forever. Reinvesting proceeds into new public lands, access projects, or habitat conservation ensures the public receives a lasting benefit *. Hunters and anglers have long supported carefully targeted public land transactions when they create lasting conservation benefits.  

When a proposal raises concerns on any of these fronts, TRCP works with lawmakers, agencies, and partners to improve it, identify better conservation outcomes, and ensure hunters and anglers have a meaningful voice throughout the public process. 

* One of the clearest examples is the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act (FLTFA). Permanently reauthorized by Congress in 2018 with broad support from the sporting community, FLTFA uses proceeds from the sale of appropriate Bureau of Land Management parcels to acquire higher-value conservation lands, improve public access, and protect fish and wildlife habitat – reinvesting those dollars into strengthening America’s public lands system. 

Why TRCP Opposes Large-Scale Disposal Proposals 

These principles also explain why TRCP has consistently opposed proposals requiring the large-scale disposal or transfer of millions of acres of public land. 

Broad disposal proposals generally do not allow individual parcels to be evaluated on their conservation values, recreational importance, public access, or local community benefits. Instead, they often rely on sweeping acreage targets or broad eligibility criteria that make it difficult to determine whether any individual transaction truly serves the public interest. 

TRCP recognizes that targeted land sales and exchanges have long played an important role in public land management and has supported transactions that were developed transparently with robust public engagement and evaluated on their individual merits. That kind of parcel-by-parcel scrutiny is fundamentally different from large-scale disposal mandates, which can put millions of acres on the table without any comparable evaluation. TRCP remains willing to support thoughtful, individual disposals and exchanges that benefit hunters and anglers and meet the criteria outlined above – our opposition is to broad, unevaluated mandates, not to the tools themselves. 

Conserving a Shared Legacy 

Public lands are one of America’s great shared inheritances. The next time a sale, exchange, or transfer proposal surfaces, these are the questions worth asking – and TRCP will keep asking them on behalf of hunters, anglers, and everyone who depends on public lands. 

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June 30, 2026

Elk Hunting and Forest Planning in Oregon’s Blue Mountains

The ongoing Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision should balance motorized access with active forest management to keep elk on public lands

Wildfire, drought, the health of our forests, and hunter and angler access have been dinner-table conversations for families across the West for decades. These conversations hit even closer to home for those families who feed themselves with elk. 

Across more than five million acres of public land in northeast Oregon and southeast Washington, the Forest Service has been working for over 20 years to update the plan that guides how these forests are managed. The agency will soon take public comment on the Blue Mountains Draft Environmental Impact Statement, and the stakes are hard to overstate. These forests hold some of the best public land elk hunting in the West and sustain rural economies. If done right, new management approaches can improve habitat and water quality, breathe life back into rural communities, produce more timber and reduce catastrophic fire on the landscape, and strengthen the fish and wildlife populations that hunters and anglers depend on. 

Ranchers, loggers, hunters, and anglers agree this opportunity is real. TRCP and our partners are working to ensure the right management and planning tools are built into the final Blue Mountains plans, which will guide the Malheur, Wallowa-Whitman, and Umatilla National Forests for decades to come. Read more below to learn how you can get involved. 

The Science of Elk Habitat 

Good hunters understand habitat sets the stage for animal behavior. The availability and quality of food, shelter, and perceived safety dictate big game distribution. Hunters also understand that access matters, but when road networks are too dense and the quiet, quality habitat that elk need shrinks, the animals are forced to search for more appealing country. 

As recreational activity has expanded on public land and forests have grown denser due to fire suppression and a lack of active management, herds often head for the quiet side of the fence on private agricultural ground. When elk seek food and/or security on private land, hunters may lose opportunity and landowners suffer crop damage and forage competition. Ultimately, wildlife managers may have to make the difficult choice to cut tag numbers or issue damage permits. 

The Starkey Experimental Forest and Range in northeast Oregon has produced some of the most important long-term research on elk behavior and road-based disturbance in the country. Starkey studies have consistently identified open, well-traveled roads as the single most important variable in determining where elk spend their time during hunting season. Rowland and colleagues reported in 2004 that reducing open-road density and creating areas that properly balance motorized access with active management projects improves quality elk habitat that keeps elk on public lands. More recent work at Starkey shows the same holds true for trails. In a controlled study published in 2018, Wisdom and colleagues found that while elk moved away from ATV riders, mountain bikers, hikers, and horseback riders, the strongest response was to motorized use. This pattern holds well beyond the Blue Mountains. Studies of elk herds in Montana have also found that elk consistently move to quieter country that keeps them away from motorized access during archery and rifle seasons. 

Critically, the research also points to something every hunter should understand before this plan is finalized. Active management like thinning, prescribed fire, and fuels reduction can dramatically improve the amount and quality of food a landscape provides for elk. But better food only helps if elk are willing to use it. If the surrounding road network keeps them in a constant state of avoidance, the improved habitat goes unused. In other words, restoration work and road management must go hand in hand, or the investment does not deliver what it should. 

Forest Planning Sets the Stage for Successful Elk Hunts 

Forest plans are the control valve for many of the factors that contribute to robust populations of big game. These plans—developed through public process and shaped by collaboration between state and federal agencies—set the direction that every subsequent decision on the forest has to follow. When that plan includes clear direction on how many open roads a landscape can have and how human disturbance is managed during sensitive seasons, the individual projects like timber sales, habitat restoration, and new roads or trails all have to work toward those same goals. When the plan stays silent on those questions, each project is decided on its own, with no consistent standard. 

The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests in Colorado offer a recent, applicable example. The GMUG’s 2024 final forest plan established more than 800,000 acres of Wildlife Management Areas with route density standards designed to maintain habitat function while allowing for more sustainable recreation and active management. The GMUG plan demonstrates that wildlife habitat management, recreation access and active forest management do not need to be competing objectives. When properly conducted, they can reinforce each other. Standards on the density of roads and trails gives land managers a clear framework for designing projects within the forest that improve both forest health and elk habitat, remove timber where needed, and give the public confidence that restoration investments will translate into wildlife on the ground. 

The Malheur, Umatilla, and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests support one of the largest Rocky Mountain elk herds in the country, and the Starkey Experimental Forest, with its wealth of science to inform habitat management, sits within the planning area. A revision is long overdue, and this is a real opportunity to account for the many ways people use these forests and to update how the plan manages roads in relation to elk habitat. Instead, the draft environmental impact statement recently released by the Forest Service for public comment does not include elk security and road density standards that have guided these forests since 1990, and it does so without putting a modern, science-based replacement in their place. That is a step backward on both counts: it abandons direction that has been in place for 35 years and sets aside the best-available Starkey research.  

The Forest Service will soon take public comment on the Blue Mountains Draft Environmental Impact Statement. This is the time for hunters and anglers to weigh in. Comments from those who hunt these mountains are a meaningful contribution to the public process. This is a real chance to usher in a new era of management that better serves the communities that depend on these forests. Stay tuned to TRCP channels for upcoming opportunities for you to take action. 

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June 29, 2026

Wyoming Sportspeople Applaud Sublette Pronghorn Antelope Migration Corridor Designation 

State action a crucial step in conserving the world’s longest known pronghorn migration  

Last week, Governor Mark Gordon formally designated the Sublette antelope corridor using Migration Corridor Executive Order 2020-1. Speaking at the Trappers Point wildlife overpass where thousands of pronghorn antelope migrate annually, Governor Gordon emphasized that durable conservation is built from the ground up and that Wyoming’s collaborative, locally led approach to corridor conservation will benefit future generations.    

This action is the culmination of over 20 years of Wyoming-led research, policy development, and stakeholder engagement. In 2020, Governor Gordon signed Executive Order 2020-1, giving Wyoming a state-led tool to manage for the intactness and viability of its big game migration corridors amid growing development pressure. This step prioritizes conservation of the corridor’s most sensitive habitats by directing development away from bottlenecks, limiting development in high use and stopover areas, and minimizing impacts throughout the corridor. 

“Wyoming is the epicenter of pronghorn hunting, and with the longest migration and largest population in the world, the Sublette herd is globally renowned,” said Josh Metten, Wyoming field manager for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. “The Governor’s action to prioritize the conservation of this incredible resource is only fitting. Thank you, Governor Gordon.” 

In early 2026, the proposed corridor received a formal review by a local working group comprised of representatives from the energy and mining industries as well as agriculture, motorized recreation, conservation, and county commissions. In addition to supporting the management safeguards now afforded to the most sensitive areas of the corridor, the group also emphasized the importance of strong state policy paired with voluntary private land conservation.  

“The Sublette antelope corridor designation is a historic milestone that shows what happens when Wyomingites work together to build durable, state-led policy that supports our wildlife and way of life,” said Metten. “Hunters and anglers appreciate the leadership of Governor Gordon, Deputy Policy Director Sara DiRienzo, the local working group, and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. We look forward to building on Wyoming’s legacy to ensure that our incredible migrations and hunting heritage endure for generations.”  

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June 26, 2026

In the Arena: Angelo Paez

TRCP’s “In the Arena” series highlights the individual voices of hunters and anglers who, as Theodore Roosevelt so famously said, strive valiantly in the worthy cause of conservation.

Angelo Paez


Hometown: Oakland, California

Occupation: Law Enforcement Recruit (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
Conservation credentials: Angelo Paez is a participant in both Outdoor Afro and the Black Heritage Hunt. Paez is part of a growing community dedicated to reconnecting people with the outdoors and with hunting and fishing traditions. He sees that work as essential to building the next generation of conservation advocates. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he knows firsthand the pressures that urban development and habitat fragmentation place on public lands, and he believes that protecting those spaces is inseparable from the sportsman’s responsibility to the land.

Raised in Oakland, California, Angelo Paez dabbled in fishing growing up before attending CSU Monterey Bay where he turned a passing interest into a serious pursuit. In 2021, Rue Mapp and the California Waterfowl Association introduced him to hunting through the Black Heritage Hunt, an experience Paez says rocket-shipped his love for the sport. Now a law enforcement recruit with Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and a dedicated public land hunter, he brings that same drive into conservation: keeping wild places intact so the tradition of hunting and fishing for your own food endures for every generation that follows.

Here is his story.

TRCP: How were you introduced to hunting, fishing, and the outdoors? Who introduced you? 

Angelo Paez: I fished off and on growing up, but my passion truly ignited during college at CSU Monterey Bay. My good friend Hunter Isbell and I spent countless hours exploring, experimenting, and learning the local waters.

My introduction to hunting came in 2021 through Rue Mapp and Holly Heyser at the California Waterfowl Association’s Suisun property and more deeply through the Black Heritage Hunt and Outdoor Afro.

Sitting in a duck blind for the first time and watching the birds work was an unforgettable experience. It completely rocket-shipped my love for the sport, sending me down a path of exploring new, wild places, targeting different species, and deeply respecting the outdoor lifestyle.

TRCP: Tell us about one of your most memorable outdoor adventures. 

Angelo Paez: Hunting at the Fort Hunter Liggett military base stands out as a true favorite. The sheer scale of the property gives you the ultimate freedom to completely explore and hunt in the raw, untamed wild. What makes it incredibly memorable is the seasonal variety – being able to pursue multiple species on the same massive piece of public land is an absolute rush and an outdoor experience that is hard to match.

Angelo Paez with a great catfish ready for the dinner table.

TRCP: If you could hunt or fish anywhere, where would it be and why?

Angelo Paez: I would love to hunt and fish across the rugged wilderness of Alaska. It represents the ultimate frontier for any outdoorsman. The opportunity to chase big game, fish for wild salmon in pristine rivers, and experience a massive landscape that has remained largely untouched by modern development is the dream. It’s the definition of wild, self-reliant adventure.

TRCP: How does conservation help enhance your outdoor life? 

Angelo Paez: Conservation ensures that the wild spaces I rely on for food, adventure, and mental clarity actually stay wild. When habitats are properly managed, wildlife populations thrive naturally, which means healthier ecosystems and better harvest opportunities. It directly translates to a more rewarding, high-quality experience every single time I step into the field or cast a line.

Bass and smiles are hard to beat!

TRCP: What are the major conservation challenges where you live?

Angelo Paez: In the crowded San Francisco Bay Area, the biggest challenge is balancing urban development with protecting our local ecosystems and waterways. Urban runoff, habitat fragmentation, and heavy pressure on surrounding public lands threaten the natural balance. Preserving public access while ensuring these high-traffic areas aren’t over-pressured or degraded is a massive uphill battle.

TRCP: Why is it important to you to be involved in conservation? 

Angelo Paez: It matters to me because I want to ensure that public properties remain open and viable for people to do exactly what our ancestors did: hunt and fish for their own food. I love seeing the environment thrive in its natural, pure beauty. Being involved means finding the perfect balance between harvesting from nature without causing undue pressure.

TRCP: Why should conservation matter to the next generation of hunters and anglers?

Angelo Paez: If the next generation doesn’t advocate for conservation, the traditions we love will disappear. Public lands are constantly under threat of being lost or degraded. Future hunters and anglers need to realize that being a sportsman isn’t just about the harvest; it’s about being a caretaker of the land so that the generations after them can experience the same freedom and beauty.

Photo credit: Angelo Paez


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June 24, 2026

America’s Forests Can’t Wait Another Fire Season. Congress Has a Fix. 

From prescribed fire to watershed protection: what the Fix Our Forests Act does for hunters and anglers

America’s forests are burning at a pace and scale that should give every hunter and angler pause. According to the National Interagency Fire Center’s May 2026 National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook, as of April 30, 1,848,210 acres had burned across the country – 194% above average. Nearly 62% of the U.S. is now in drought, with conditions persisting, intensifying, or developing across much of the western U.S., High Plains, and Southeast. Looking ahead, NIFC projects above normal significant fire potential through the summer across an unusually broad geographic footprint: the Northwest, northern Great Basin, northern California, the Southwest, the Rocky Mountain Front Range, and much of the southern Gulf coast.  

But fire itself is not the enemy. Much of the American West and South is naturally fire-adapted, with forests and grasslands that evolved alongside frequent low – to moderate-intensity fire, which historically reduced excess vegetation, recycled nutrients, maintained some of the most productive wildlife habitat in the country. The crisis isn’t that forests burn. It’s that a century of widespread fire suppression, changing land management practices, expanding development, invasive species, and a changing climate have left many of those same forests choked with unnatural, dense fuel loads – turning a natural process into some of the catastrophic, habitat destroying wildfires we’re now seeing. 

For America’s hunters and anglers, the consequences of getting this wrong are not abstract.  They are lost seasons, degraded watersheds, and habitat that will take decades to recover. The challenge before Congress is not simply reducing fire – it is restoring healthier forests where beneficial fire can once again play its natural role while reducing catastrophic wildfires that threaten communities, fish and wildlife habitat, and outdoor recreation. 

The good news is that Congress is well on its way to passing legislation to combat this crisis. has already done much of the hard work to address this crisis. The Fix Our Forests Act (FOFA) passed the U.S. House of Representatives earlier in the 119th Congress and cleared the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee by a 18-5 bipartisan vote last October. It is currently ready to be called to the Senate floor at any moment.   

The Fix Our Forests Act takes a comprehensive approach to the forest health and wildfire challenges that have been building for decades on our national forests. For hunters and anglers, the most consequential provisions are straightforward. Here are just a few: 

Accelerating on-the-ground restoration. 

For the first time in legislation, FOFA recognizes that projects to restore watersheds can reduce wildfire risk and protect drinking water sources for downstream communities. Land managers would be authorized to conduct restoration projects aimed at enhancing riparian and wet-meadow health in the newly designated “Fireshed Management Areas” under the bill. This win-win-win creates healthier habitat for fish and wildlife, more fire-resistant landscapes, and protects water supply for downstream communities.  

Expanding the use of prescribed fire. 

FOFA aims to make meaningful progress toward putting more “good fire” back on the landscape by strengthening the prescribed fire workforce, improving training and coordination among state, tribal, private, and federal practitioners, and reducing the barriers that have limited the safe use of prescribed burning. These investments would acknowledge what land managers have long understood.  

For hunters and anglers, more prescribed fire means healthier forests – stimulating new forage for elk and deer, improving habitat diversity for upland birds, and reducing the risk that future wildfires will severely damage the watersheds wild trout and salmon depend on. 

Protecting watersheds and downstream communities. 

Beyond improving watershed health in Fireshed Management Areas, FOFA would conserve and restore freshwater resources on other National Forest System Lands and nearby non-federal lands through reauthorizing the Water Source Protection Program and improving the Watershed Condition Framework. These programs identify and implement conservation and restoration efforts to improve water quality originating on U.S. Forest Service lands. Through these provisions, FOFA would expand critical public-private partnerships working to ensure that our National Forests provide clean water for communities, benefit agricultural producers, and safeguard fish and wildlife habitat that hunters and anglers rely on. 

Improving interagency coordination. 

Wildfire response today is too often hampered by fragmented data and slow coordination across the federal, state, tribal, and local agencies that share responsibility for fighting fires. FOFA addresses this by creating a national Wildfire Intelligence Center, which would generate and host real-time fire data and coordinate rapid interagency response. For hunters and anglers, faster, better-coordinated fire response means more public land stays accessible each season, and less prime fish and wildlife habitat is lost to fires that could have been contained earlier. 

Strengthening community resilience. 

FOFA would help communities become more resilient to wildfire by establishing a new interagency “Community Wildfire Risk Reduction Program” to better coordinate federal efforts to help communities prepare for, withstand, and recover from wildfires. The bill also strengthens and expands the Community Risk Reduction Program and makes improvements to existing grant programs while fostering cutting-edge research on wildfire and early detection technologies. These investments would help towns near national forests and other public lands better withstand and recover from wildfire – which matters to hunters and anglers, too: resilient gateway communities sustain the outfitters, access points, and local economies that depend on healthy public lands. 

The TRCP has long held that healthy national forests are foundational to quality hunting and fishing. Elk, mule deer, and pronghorn (and many other species) depend on the mosaic of open meadows, mixed conifer forests, and riparian corridors that characterize well-managed national forests. Trout and salmon depend on cold, clean water that forested watersheds provide. When forests are degraded, the hunting and fishing opportunities that millions of Americans enjoy suffers alongside them. 

The Fix Our Forests Act does not solve every challenge facing our national forests. The bill must be accompanied by adequate resources and agency capacity to put its tools to work. Legislation alone cannot substitute for a well-funded, well-staffed agency workforce – but the bill aims to lay critical groundwork that could meaningfully reduce the risk of catastrophic, landscape scale fires that have become increasingly common. 

Momentum for meaningful forest and wildfire policy has been building for years. The bipartisan support behind the Fix Our Forests Act – alongside backing from Western governors, state foresters, fire chiefs, conservation organizations, and other stakeholders – reflects a broad consensus that the status quo is no longer acceptable. While these groups may not agree on every aspect of forest management, they agree that the growing wildfire crisis demands action. Congress has an opportunity to build on that momentum and deliver lasting, science-based solutions before another fire season is upon us. 

TRCP urges the Senate to pass the Fix Our Forests Act before the close of the current legislative session. Every fire season that passes without action increases the risk of uncharacteristic wildfires that can devastate watersheds, fragment wildlife habitat, and cause long term closures on public lands that hunters and anglers have depended on for generations. The forests that make those days afield possible are counting on Congress to act. 

A path forward is in sight. It’s time to move.   

HOW YOU CAN HELP

TRCP has partnered with Afuera Coffee Co. to further our commitment to conservation. $4 from each bag is donated to the TRCP, to help continue our efforts of safeguarding critical habitats, productive hunting grounds, and favorite fishing holes for future generations.

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