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But, “given the unique history of the Japanese black pine, it is truly irreplaceable,” McCabe said in an email.

She finally has the time to get at the dead branch on a Japanese black pine, looming like a giant bonsai over the R Street fence.

They set up orange pylon cones with signs — “Seasonal Boughs, Help Yourself” — and then they begin cutting branches off the 40-odd Japanese black pine trees that line the western edge of the courts.