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["Kieran and/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>]

I've lost 2 young pears, nearly an inch thick at the base.  Both were 
entirely eaten off underground.  They were only about 15 ft apart, and there 
were lots of branches heaped up near them and a downed pine between them. 
We are still suffering the rodent population explosion from the 2008 huge 
bumper crop of fruit and wild nuts.  I assume that in this hard winter the 
rodent population is falling and we'll find out this summer and next winter 
about the increased coyote/hawk/owl, etc population from the 2008 bounty. 
Donna