"An HOA board spent about $100,000 trying to destroy my sister's butterfly garden in favor of turfgrass. They did not succeed."
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Wildscape by Nancy Lawson
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"The wrens don't ask for much and they have their priorities straight. They recycle, fashioning homes for their young from strips of bark, dried grasses, fallen leaves, mosses feathers, snakeskins, pine, needles sticks, and anything else that might keep fragile chicks, cradled and warm. They live in harmony with plants, protecting them from insects who would devour their leaves and stems, caterpillars beetles, chew bugs, grasshoppers and many others by feeding this ravenous crew to their young.
But if my sister's neighbor had gotten his way, most of the wrens' housing construction materials would have disappeared and their grocery shelves would be empty. Despite the low demands and helpful ways of these hard-working birds, they were once unwelcome in Janet's community where one resident took it upon himself to declare turf grass the only acceptable plant and to decry the presence of animals as verboten. For years, he influenced the HOA board president and a hired lawyer to decree the same, and the small group of unreasonable men spent about $100,000 of the community's money trying to destroy the garden of my sister and her family and the home of the wrens."
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"The ugly harassment my sister experienced-- threatening letters and emails, spying photographers in front of the house, made up stories about her family--was a tiny microcosm of what was also happening on the national stage."
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