She’s back, and she’s brought a friend.

The second day in her attic office in the newly renovated Ruscombe Mansion, Eliza Smith Steinmeier looked up from her desk to see a pair of  black vultures out on the balcony checking out the premises. All that stood between the environmental executive and her sudden visitors with their determined gazes and 5-foot wingspans was an open window and a flimsy mesh screen.