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“They hear the buzz of a drone and hide in barns or henhouses. Then, when the drone passes, they all come out,” he said.

When she was about 5, she disappeared for hours to a dark henhouse to see how chickens laid eggs, so absorbed that she was oblivious to her family’s frantic search for her.

In 2010, California voters drove the foxes from the henhouse, seeing to it that lawmakers in Washington and Sacramento would no longer have the power to draw congressional districts to suit themselves.

“At Mason, the foxes are in the henhouse,” she said.

“We can’t afford to go back. We have to defend our progress. We can’t let the fossil fuel interests run the henhouse again.”