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sai-national.org • WINTER 2017 • PAN PIPES 13 father and I trapped porcupines in the Colony woods. Due to their habit of stripping the bark from trees and thus killing numbers of them every year, they are considered a pest—so much so, in fact, that the state offers a bounty on them. Aer three seasons of intensive trapping, they are well checked in these woods. ere is another woodland menace, the gypsy moth, which eats the foliage trees. It lays its eggs on the trunks of trees in a downy, bluff- colored cluster, and in order to prevent these clusters from hatching, we go around each spring and creosote all we can find. We are trying to exterminate the gypsy moths here at the Colony and have succeeded in checking them. In other sections near here, however, the trees are covered with the egg-nests. Last year, aer school hours, I went up the little pine knoll east of the cottage and cleared out the underbrush and dead limbs. It was a lot of fun watching the transition from thicket to a grove, and good exercise as well. In addition, I had the thrill of knowing I had done it all myself. Prior to that, any clearing or cutting I had done had been helping my father. We had done quite a bit around various studios and roads in the Colony. is winter we had a bird feeding-box in the little enclosed garden in front of the cottage. Due to the heavy snowfall and the cold weather, a great number of little birds which usually stay down in the deep woods came up in search of food. Aer any particularly heavy snowfall, we would scatter again on the surface of the snow, and we felt amply rewarded when flocks of hungry birds came flying down and settled on the snow right in front of us. It has meant a great deal to us to live in Pan's Cottage, up here in the country. e little white cottage is an ideal home, and the surrounding woods and fields and the marvelous vistas of hills and mountains make it seem all the more perfect. It has been a wonderful experience, and one which I shall never forget." Pan's Cottage CamPaign Leaders Ginny and Bill Johnson Leslie Odom Miller Elizabeth M. Nordling Barbara Staton Roger and Leslie Nelson Ruth Sieber Johnson Kimberly Philips Suzanne Floyd Mary K. Traver Meliné Markarian Yvonne M. Glass Sylvia and Maurice Elton Sue Amstutz Heidi Frankson Geraldine Barretto-Sims Elsie Beaver Amy and Eric Saylor Margaret Rittenhouse Arlene Veron Mary DeLoache Jennings Christine Hall Tracey Wygal Withrow Tamara Friedlander Jessica Chichester Christine Bruns Matthew and Jennifer Mistretta Peggy Hall Deborah R. Volker Kate and Jay Kirkpatrick Sandy Erickson Susan Frank Beth Lopez Ruth Sickafus James and Susan Bermann Dixie Lou Morris Daryle Gardner-Bonneau Brenda C. Ray

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