Dear lady,

I seem to recall that there are products on the market that recreate the look of wood shingles almost perfectly. I know hard core preservationists will take a dim view of the use of synthetic materials to replace the real thing on a historic structure, but it seems to me that the squirrels are part of that old place's history too.

At 09:02 AM 08/24/2001 -0500, you wrote:

I have a rather strange question to ask those of you in museums that have wood shingles on the roof of their building.

We are having squirrel infestation problems at our historic house museum. The squirrels are eating through the cedar shingles on the roof of our museum. Has anyone ever encountered these problem before? If so is there any humane solution?

Thanks,
Susan Lerner
Collections Manager
Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust
slerner@wrightplus.org

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