 | Wild Thing: WMPs Have Rights Too
| | Wildlife Management Professional | A case of feral poultry illuminates the need for wildlife management professionals to fight for their rights when activists try to take away the tools they need to do their jobs. |
| | Wild Thing: We're All In This Together
| | Wildlife Management Professional | | Have you ever seen Monty Python's "Life of Brian?" It's one of my favorite movies, though everyone else I've ever watched it with just kind of sat there confused while I was laughing hysterically. Anyway, there's one scene near the beginning that is extremely relevant to the wildlife management industry today. |
| | | Wild Thing: House-Crashing Raccoon Proves Need for WMP
| As the population grows and development spreads, we're seeing an increased need for professional wildlife management services.
| | Wildlife Management Professional | | Every night when I take my dog Willa out for a walk, I come across squirrels, geese, skunks, rabbits, an occasional deer and sometimes something so dead that I can't tell what it used to be, but Willa has a very keen interest in it anyway. As long as they are fast enough to fly away or scurry up a tree, we get along without a problem. Plus, as Willa gets older and fatter, the length and speed at which she chases wildlife decreases. |
| | Wild Thing: Case In Point
| I'm an excellent example of why we need wildlife management professionals (WMPs)
| | Wildlife Management Professional | | The rest of the story is a blur. It may take years of psychotherapy for my neighbors, our children and me to find out what really happened after that. |
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| NPMA Releases Program for Wildlife Management Conference
| | PMP Buzz Online eNewsletter | | The National Pest Management Association (NPMA) has released the educational program and schedule of events for the first-ever Nuisance Bird and Wildlife Management Conference & Marketplace, which will be held November 19-21, 2008 at the Westin St. Louis in St. Louis. |
| | Bats Come Home to Roost
| | PMP Buzz Online eNewsletter | | “They become more visible around late summer,” said Rodney Cain, owner of Premier Pest Control. “I wouldn’t say daily, but nearly every other day I am called out to someone’s house, business, barn or building about them.” |
| | | New Home Infested with Hundreds of Bats
| | PMP Buzz Online eNewsletter | | The new owner claims a pest management professional tells her the bats have been here for at least three years, but that may be all the proof she has. |
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| | Cool Tools: The BurnMizer Cremator
| | Wildlife Management Professional | | Animals that are sick, injured or unable to be relocated according to prevailing laws must be euthanized. While wildlife management professionals (WMPs) are sometimes able to dispose of carcasses in landfills, or make prior arrangements with a landowner for burial, an increasing number are considering cremation. |
| | Cool Tools: The Simple Blue Box
| | Wildlife Management Professional | | The new "Simple Blue Box" addresses nuisance bird management for large open-air facilities, such as airplane hangars, warehouses or stadiums. This machine disperses Rejex-It — an avian-specific repellent for all species of pest birds — directly to the areas where birds congregate. |
| | Cool Tools: Starling Stopper
| | Wildlife Management Professional | | Starlings are estimated to number in the tens of millions, compete with native species and can cause widespread destruction of crops. |
| | Cool Tools: The BatCone
| | Wildlife Management Professional | | The BatCone, Pro-Cone, or the BatCone 2 (Excluder) are all time-saving devices for excluding bats from structures. |
| | Cool Tools: KABA Tape
| | Wildlife Management Professional | | Mark Ravenelle, president of KABA Corp., had 21 years in the computer industry as an analyst and engineer — and spent the past 10 years in wildlife management. |
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