Step four: Prevent future problems

Most nuisance wildlife control work is in response to a problem that has already happened. Is there a way to turn that around, to actually prevent problems? Or at least, to prevent them from happening over and over and over again? Absolutely, and this is emerging as a more important part of nuisance wildlife control.

There are two major approaches to preventing wildlife conflicts: habitat modification and exclusion. We'll also discuss one strategy that's common in agricultural pest management, which we believe may become an important service offered by some NWCOs: monitoring.

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